Introduction to Modern Greek

A continuation of MGRK 0100. New students may place into it, after special arrangement with the instructor. The course continues on an integrative skills approach and aims to develop language skills, within a framework of specific topics and functions. The course objectives are to enable students to perform a range of tasks, master a minimum core vocabulary and acquire knowledge and understanding of various forms of Greek culture.

MGRK 0200 S01

Intermediate Modern Greek

A continuation of MGRK 0300. New students may place into it, after special arrangement with the instructor. It aims to enhance language skills within a variety of registers and themes; enable the students to master, use and understand effectively essential linguistic structures; examine a variety of expressive forms within an authentic cultural context.

MGRK 0400 S01

Primary Instructor:

Amanatidou

Advanced Modern Greek

A continuation of MGRK 0500. Students who have not taken the previous sequence may take a placement test, after consultation with the instructor. The course aims to promote range, accuracy and fluency and enable students to develop ease and spontaneity with the language. Authentic materials drawn from a range of sources inform the content of the course and include films, literature, media, testimonies, music and internet based sources. The development of transcultural competence will be an essential component of the course.

MGRK 0600 S01

Primary Instructor: Amanatidou

Special Topics in Modern Greek

Independent study/research. No description available.

MGRK 1910 S01

Primary Instructor: Amanatidou

Poetics of Madness: Aspects of Literary Insanity

Surveys a wide range of literary texts aiming primarily to trace the long process of transition from pre-modern to modern conceptions of madness, and to codify the symbolic logic and discursive modalities underlying its respective representations. Spanning several centuries of artistic preoccupation with the alienated mind, these texts will serve as guides in an intense exploration of the relationship between insanity and literature, as it has been shaped by a set of social impulses, cultural assumptions, or scientific developments. Authors include Euripides, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Hoffmann, Flaubert, Nerval, Maupassant, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Stevenson, James, Woolf, Breton, and Kazantzakis.

COLT 0811N S01

Primary Instructor: Panou

Words Like Daggers: The Epistolary Novel

Letters as novels, novels in letters: this course traces the development of the epistolary novel, as it was cultivated in Europe from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Through focused discussions of seminal, as much as fascinating, specimens of the genre, we will study the major impact that epistolary fiction had on the stylistic and conceptual evolution of the novel in general, also exploring its interactions with a range of established or shifting social structures, gender roles, discursive practices, and modes of consciousness. Authors include Montesquieu, Laclos, Goethe, Hölderlin, Stoker, Foscolo, Tabucchi, Alexandrou, and Galanaki.

COLT 1421U S01

Primary Instructor: Panou

Failed States? Democracy and Dictatorship in Southern Europe

Why did some of the first European countries to introduce democratic institutions end up as dictatorships? This course examines the history of democracy and dictatorship in Spain, Italy, and Greece by looking at the development of liberal democracy, the challenges it faced, and the eventual establishment of dictatorial regimes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include the relation between liberalism, authoritarianism, and nationalism; civil society and its discontents; military intervention in politics and proto-fascist movements; the character of charismatic leadership; the introduction of repressive state policies; and the role of violence and propaganda in the consolidation of authoritarian rule.

HIST 1362 S01

Primary Instructor: Chronakis

Drifting Cities. Mutliethnic Societies from Empire to Nation-State

What happens to a multiethnic city when it passes from a dying empire to a nascent nation-state? This course focuses on Vienna and the Mediterranean ports of Trieste and Salonica from the late 19th century to the end of the Second World War and examines their transformation from cradles of Habsburg and Ottoman imperial modernity into laboratories of Austrian, Italian and Greek nationalism. Topics include: interethnic relations; the impact of WW1 and interwar nationalism; assimilation, antisemitism and state policies; urban transformations; the Holocaust and its memory; and nostalgic imaginings of these cities in current public discourse.

HIST 1978A S01

Primary Instructor: Chronakis