WELCOME! Here is a listing of our courses for the Summer of 2008.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have further questions: helmadik@uchicago.edu (Helma Dik)

CLASSES IN THE SUMMER PROGRAM 2008:

Introduction to Attic Greek I-II-III
Introduction to Latin I-II-III
Intermediate Greek I-II-III
Intermediate Latin  I-II-III

HEALTH WARNING:

All classes are intensive and meet five days per week. Participation takes a full-time commitment on the part of faculty and students alike. We strongly recommend that students find housing in Hyde Park (the neighborhood in which the University is located) for the duration of their summer program. Housing options range from finding a sublet in Hyde Park (cheapest, but requires most likely an advance visit in May or so - recent alumni recommend trying marketplace.uchicago.edu and craigslist), to International House, to an undergraduate dorm (see the Graham School website (most expensive, may include meal plan)).

Auditors and for-credit students all have access to the library and the newly opened Ratner gymnasium. Many locations on campus, including the libraries, offer wireless access, so students may well decide to bring their laptop with wireless card along. 

Courses in Greek and Latin

Once again, we are pleased to have an impressive line-up of faculty members teaching both Beginning and Intermediate Greek and Latin in sequences consisting of 3 courses each.

Introduction to Attic Greek I-II-III (GREK 10100-10200-10300);
Introduction to Latin I-II-III (LATN  10100-10200-10300)

These intensive 9-week courses, meeting daily for morning and afternoon sessions, work through an introductory text (Mastronarde for Greek, Learn to Read Latin for Latin), and after 6 weeks, students will have finished the textbook and have started to read original texts, which latter activity will be focus of the final three weeks. On the Latin side, readings will include a wide variety of prose and poetry; on the Greek side students will read Lysias I, Plato's Crito, and various other authors. It should be stressed that these courses cover more than a full year's worth of the language in nine weeks, and so a full-time commitment on the part of the student is essential. Upon completion, however, students are well-prepared for upper-level courses.

Dates for intro sequences: June 23rd - Aug 22nd 2008.

Intermediate Greek I-II-III (GREK 20100-20200-20300);
Intermediate Latin I-II-III (LATN  20100-20200-20300)

We are again offering our six-week courses at the intermediate level:  These courses focus exclusively on prose, with reading courses on prose authors in the mornings and work on language skills (grammar review, sight reading, prose composition) in the afternoons. We especially recommend these sequences to advanced undergraduates who are thinking about graduate school in Classics, and to current graduate students in Classics and other fields such as Philosophy, History, etc. who are looking for a solid training in prose.

Why come to the UofC?

What we see as particular strengths of the program here are the degree of faculty involvement and the small class sizes. If you take these courses, count on about half a dozen fellow students and a faculty member teaching you for at least two-thirds of the way (typically, faculty will teach in the mornings, and an advanced graduate student will teach in the afternoons). This means that a lot can be achieved in these six (intermediate) or nine (beginning) weeks.

We strongly encourage enrolling for a complete sequence of courses, and this is essential especially at the beginning level.

The nine weeks of the program offer the equivalent of 1 year of study; textbooks will be covered in the first six weeks of the beginning sequence, followed by reading of original texts. All books will be available from the Seminary-Coop bookstore.

Contact Information

These courses are all offered through the Graham School of the University of Chicago. Its website, with all the official information on the Summer program (registration, fees, etc.) can be found on the web at:
  http://summer.uchicago.edu

You can also reach the Graham School

By e-mail:

uc-summer@uchicago.edu

By phone:

(773) 702-6033 or 1-800-997-9689

Or by fax:

(773) 702-6814

For information specifically about the Classics courses listed here, please contact:

Helma Dik (Director, Classics Summer Program)
helmadik@uchicago.edu
phone: 773-834 2170

Special information for students who are taking beginning Greek

In the first six weeks we will be using the book Introduction to Attic Greek, by Donald J. Mastronarde. The book will be available at the Seminary co-op.  In the meantime, please check out the Introduction to Attic Greek webpage, which, among other things, is a good place to learn the Greek alphabet and practise pronunciation. It would help a great deal if you came to the first class already knowing the alphabet. 

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