Writing Across the Curriculum: Classics

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CL 309 Writing Across the Curriculum: Classics is designed to aid majors in extending the writing skills they began to acquire in CL1 within the context of the classical literature as well as preparing them to work within the wide field of classical literary genres. The texts will include epic and lyric poetry, history, rhetoric, letters, philosophy, and drama, both tragic and comic. Students will explore such topics as translation theory, the beginnings of historical writing, and the ancient art of persuasion through a series of 5-7-page papers, weekly on-line critical responses, and a final in-class presentation in the context of a mini-conference.