<div dir="ltr"><p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#24408e" face="Tw Cen MT, sans-serif"><b><u>UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN</u></b></font></p><p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#24408e" face="Tw Cen MT, sans-serif"><b><u>MODERN GREEK PROGRAM</u></b></font></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif;color:rgb(36,64,142)">FALL 2014 COURSES</span></u></b></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">ELEMENTARY
FIRST-YEAR MODERN GREEK 101 & 501</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif"> is designed for students with no previous exposure or only basic
understanding of Modern Greek. The
course provides students with basic skills in reading, speaking, and writing
and introduces them to Modern Greek history and culture through media such as
film and music. <b></b></span></p>
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SECOND-YEAR MODERN GREEK 201 & 503 </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">assumes familiarity with the basics of reading, writing, and
speaking. Through films, music, literature, poetry, newspapers and surfing the
web, students enrich their vocabulary, improve fluency in speaking, and
discover their means of personal expression in Modern Greek. Enrollment in the second year Modern Greek
courses requires Modern Greek 101/102 or placement by exam. <b></b></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">THIRD-YEAR
MODERN GREEK 301 & 505 </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">builds
on the language skills acquired in Modern Greek 101/102 and 201/202. The course
is a thematic survey of Modern Greek culture through literature, theater,
film, music, newspapers, TV, and the
web, focusing on such topics as diaspora, politics, identity, and current events. As part of this course students are also
exposed to the contemporary pop-culture of Greece through movies, newspapers,
music, TV programs, the web, and cartoons. Two-year language sequence or
placement required. <b></b></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">MODERN
GREEK 214: INTRO TO MODERN GREEK CULTURE</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif"> surveys Modern Greek culture as manifested in the Greek
nation-state, with its idea of a Greek destiny in time and space, transmitted
in the media, politics, the arts, and everyday practices and beliefs. Sources
are films, photographs, stories, essays, poems, spectacles, websites, blogs,
newspapers, etc. These days Greece is a paradigm of crisis, with people
frequently expressing the fear that a “Greek tragedy” will spread and the U.K.,
or Spain, or California, or some other place, “will become the next Greece.” Just 9 years ago in 2004 Greece was the
paradigm of unexpected success: “The
Olympics came home and Greece showed the world the great things Greeks can do.”
Why does Greece, a very small country with just 11 million people, occupy such
a big place? Who are these
“Greeks”? How do they see themselves?
How do they behave? And how do they deal with expectations of who they are
supposed to be? <b></b></span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">MODERN
GREEK 350: GREEK MYTH IN FILM</span></b></p>
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Tw Cen MT',sans-serif">Cinema has often tried to depict the Greek gods, heroines, and lands in
the same terms as the ancients talked about them. But it has also often tried
to update them and bring them closer to our own reality. What happens when
films adapt Greek tales to modern times? When Medea, Antigone, and Electra
appear in South Africa, Poland, or Tunisia? When Orpheus, Ulysses, and Oedipus
suffer in the American South, Yugoslavia, or Italy? This course will examine
the uses of Greek myth in movies that remove the stories from their original
setting and take them to different lands and times. The goal of the course is
to examine the mutually reinforcing overlap between myth, literature, and
cinema. The movies will have neither ancient columns nor mythical monsters but
they will show how fate can still turn us all into wandering, questioning
Greeks.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><i><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Despina Margomenou</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Department of Classical Studies</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Lecturer IV</span></font></i><div><i><font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Modern Greek Program Coordinator</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Research Associate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">University of Michigan</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">2160 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">734-7640112</span></font></i><br></div></div>
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