Classical Mythology - Women/Gender Focus
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
This course examines Greek and Roman literature involving myth and how peoples use traditional narratives and characters to explain and experiment with ideas about themselves and their surroundings in their historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. CLST 271G focuses, within this field, on concerns of women's studies and gender studies.
Outcomes: Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental myths of the ancient Greek and Roman world, their language and possible meanings, and how myth reflected important collective and individual concerns, values, beliefs, and practices then, even as modern myth does now.
This course examines Greek and Roman literature involving myth and how peoples use traditional narratives and characters to explain and experiment with ideas about themselves and their surroundings in their historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. CLST 271G focuses, within this field, on concerns of women's studies and gender studies.
Outcomes: Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental myths of the ancient Greek and Roman world, their language and possible meanings, and how myth reflected important collective and individual concerns, values, beliefs, and practices then, even as modern myth does now.