[MGSA-L] New Courses in Modern Greek Studies-Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
Katerina Stefatos
ks3061 at columbia.edu
Wed Aug 21 11:07:26 PDT 2013
*NEW COURSES IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES OFFERED BY THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC
STUDIES (CLASSICS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)*
Please find attached the posters of our Fall 2013 courses
For more info please contact us at hellenic at columbia.edu
<mailto:hellenic at columbia.edu>
*STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEW WEBSITE TO BE LAUNCHED ON SEPTEMBER 3^RD !!!*
*Modern Greek Language Offerings**Fall 2013:
*
*INTRODUCTION TO GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I-GRKM V1101 TR
9:00am-10:50am. F 10:00am-10:50am. xxxx Hamilton Hall. Karen Van Dyck. 4
pts*
This is a year-long course for students who wish to learn Greek as it is
written and spoken in Greece today. As well as learning the skills
necessary to read texts of moderate difficulty and converse on a wide
range of topics, we will explore Modern Greece's cultural landscape from
political graffiti to poetry to "parea." Special attention will be paid
to general problems of foreign language study and translation. How do
"our," "American," "Greek-American" definitions of language and culture
differ from "their," "Greek" ones? Friday class is a separate
conversation hour with Kathryn Stergiopoulos.
**
*INTERMEDIATE GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I-GRKM V1201 TR 11am-12.50am.
xxxx Hamilton Hall.**Toby K. Lee. 4pts*
This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the
basic grammar and syntax of Modern Greek language and can communicate at
an elementary level. Using films, newspapers and popular songs, students
engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their
vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film
and book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection
of second year textbooks. Prerequisites: GRKM V1101-V1102 or the
equivalent. Corequisites: Students are also required to take the
conversation class, GRKM W1211.
**
*INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK CONVERSATION-GRKM W1211 F 11am-11:50am. xxxx
Hamilton Hall. Kathryn Stergiopoulos. 1pt*
For students in GRKM V1201, but also open to students not enrolled in
GRKM V1201, who wish to improve their spoken Modern Greek.
**
*WORLDING C.P. CAVAFY: DESIRE, TRANSLATION, MEDIA GRKM W4300 T
6:10pm-8:00pm. TBA. Karen Van Dyck. 4pts. *
*Bilingual 1-credit tutorial MG V3997. T**11:00am-11:45am. 515 Hamilton
Hall*
By examining Cavafy's work in all its permutations (as criticism,
translation, adaptation), this course introduces students to a wide
range of critical approaches used in World Literature, Gender Studies,
and Translation Studies. The Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground
for different kinds of comparative literature methods, those that engage
social-historical issues such as sexuality, diaspora, postcoloniality as
well as linguistic issues such as multilingualism, media and
translation. How does this poet "at a slight angle to the universe"
challenge contemporary theories of gender and literature as national
institution? How can studying a canonical author open up our theories
and practices of translation? Among the materials considered are
translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, James Merrill, and
Marguerite Yourcenar, commentary by E.M. Forster, C.M. Bowra, and Roman
Jakobson, poems by W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and
visual art by David Hockney and Duane Michals. Though this course
presupposes no knowledge of Greek, students wanting to read Cavafy in
the original are encouraged to take the 1-credit directed reading
tutorial offered simultaneously.
*GREECE AND TURKEY: LITERATURE AND POLITICS G4420 M 6:10pm-8:00pm. TBA.
Vangelis Calotychos. 3 pts*
The relationship between Greece and Turkey, as well as between Greeks
and Turks (and Cypriots), has traditionally been considered one of
animosity and mistrust. This perspective fall short of capturing the
complexities of a long history of encounters---literary, cultural,
linguistic, political, musical, architectural---in a variety of
contexts---Byzantine, Ottoman, colonial (e.g. Cyprus), national,
transnational. This course will consider the nature of these contacts in
their literary and cultural representation, their wider rhetorics and
fundamental (meta)narratives in the modern period. All texts available
in English translation. Though this course presupposes no knowledge of
Greek, students wanting to read in the original are encouraged to take
the 1-credit tutorial offered simultaneously through the Program in
Hellenic Studies.
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Katerina Stefatos
Program Coordinator,Program in Hellenic Studies
Classics Department,Columbia University
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-851 0297
Fax: 212-854-7856
ks3061 at columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/
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