[MGSA-L] New Courses in Modern Greek Studies-Hellenic Studies, Columbia University

Katerina Stefatos ks3061 at columbia.edu
Tue Nov 12 13:42:27 PST 2013


*SPRING 2014*

*MODERN GREEK STUDIES **COURSES*

*PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES*

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For more info please contact us at hellenic at columbia.edu 
<mailto:hellenic at columbia.edu>

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*INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II-GRKM V1102. 4pts. 
Karen Van Dyck TR 9:00am-10:50am (Kathryn Stergiopoulos **F 
10:00am-10:50am). *
This second semester course is designed for students who have taken the 
first semester course V 1101 or the equivalent. It focuses again on 
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, students continue to explore Modern Greece's 
cultural landscape. **

*INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II-GRKM V1202.**4 
pts.Toby Lee TR 11:00am--12:50pm. *
This second semester course is designed for students who have taken the 
first semester course V 1201 or the equivalent. In the spring term 
students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar 
and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary. The aim is to be 
able to read simple Greek newspaper articles, essays and short stories 
and to discuss and summarize them in Greek. *Students are also required 
to take the conversation class, GRKM W1212 (below)*

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INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK CONVERSATION-GRKM W1212. 1pt. **Kathryn 
Stergiopoulos F 11:00am--11:50am. *
For students in GRKM V1202; but also open to students not enrolled in 
V1201 above, who wish to improve their spoken modern Greek. For more 
information, contact Karen Van Dyck at vandyck at columbia.edu 
<mailto:vandyck at columbia.edu> **

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*COMPARATIVE DIASPORAS AND TRANSLATION-CPLS G6111. 3pts.**Karen Van Dyck 
and Brent Edwards T 2:10pm-4pm.*
This seminar will focus on the theory and practice of translation from 
the perspective of comparative diaspora studies. We will look at key 
scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades 
focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, 
uprooting, and imagined community, especially with regard to the 
literature of the African and Greek diasporas. The final weeks of the 
course will be devoted to a practicum, in which students will workshop 
their own translation projects.**

*TOPICS IN GREEK FILM-GRKM V**3135. 3pts. Erato Basea M 6:00pm-10:00pm.*

This course addresses a wide range of fields from film theory and 
aesthetics to cultural studies and history, exploring questions of film 
style, transnational and cosmopolitan filmmaking practices, national 
industries and audience reception. We will begin by discussing recent 
debates in film studies about transnational and peripheral cinemas 
before proceeding to the case of films that are either produced in 
Greece or are about Greece. We will read films in terms of their 
narrative style, locate them in their wider socio-political and economic 
contexts of production and reception, and suggest other case studies 
based on your own background and interests. Films have English 
subtitles. *There will be an optional 1-credit bilingual section for 
those students able to read and discuss materials in Greek. *

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*THE WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS: GREECE FACES EAST-CLGM V3920. 3pts. 
**Christine Philliou (TA: TBA) T 1:00pm-2:50pm**. *
This course is an antidote to Contemporary Civilization and Literature 
Humanities, considering the real, imagined, and forgotten ways that 
"Greece" was connected to the "East," from antiquity to the present, 
rather than the ways Greek culture and thought paved the way to "Western 
Civilization." Using a range of disciplinary lenses--including but not 
limited to history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art 
history--we will read and discuss primary source materials that connect 
Ancient/Byzantine/Modern Greek cultural, economic, and political actors 
with, for instance, Phoenician, Persian, Arab, Turkish, Ottoman 
civilizations as well as cultures and peoples of the "Modern Middle 
East." *The**course fulfills the Global Core requirement.***


*MODERN GREECE-HIST W4300. 4pts. Mark Mazower M 11:00am-12:50pm. *
This is an undergraduate research seminar which will allow students with 
an interest in the Balkans, eastern Europe and the Ottoman empire to 
trace in detail the emergence of the independent Greek nation-state in 
the early 19th century and to draw on contemporary literature and the 
secondary historiography to evaluate theories of ethnicity, nationalism 
and state formation. It is open to all students with a background in 
modern European or Middle Eastern history and covers the period from the 
mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries. *Instructor's permission is 
required; preference will be given to majors and concentrators, seniors 
and juniors**.*

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*MUSLIM CHRISTIAN-BALKAN NARRATIVES-CLSL G6200. 3pts. Valentina 
Izmirlieva R **2:10pm-4:00pm.*
A graduate seminar on major literary and cinematic narratives from 
Southeastern Europe that thematize Muslim-Christian encounters in the 
context of the complex political and and cultural history of the 
Balkans. The reading list includes works by Ivo Andric', Ismail Kadare, 
Nikos Kazandzakis, Emir Kusturica, Milcho Mancheveski, Orhan Pamuk, 
Milorad Pavic', Mes(a Selimovic', and Yordan Yovkov.**

*SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR-GRKM V3998. 4pts. Vangelis Calotychos **W 
10:00am-12:00pm. *
This course is primarily designed for students writing a senior thesis 
or undertaking advanced research on modern Greece or Greek Diaspora 
topics in all disciplines. The course of study and reading material will 
be determined by the instructor in consultation with the students; and 
it will be made relevant to the theoretical and practical requirements 
of their research topic. The course will provide guidance and 
supervision over the writing of the thesis over a sequence of drafts. It 
will also instruct on how to best manage such practicalities as 
generating a bibliography, providing proper citations, and organizing 
and developing argumentation for a longer research paper.***Students not 
engaged in writing a senior thesis but interested in working on a 
research topic require the prior permission of the instructor: ***

**ec2268 at columbia.edu <mailto:ec2268 at columbia.edu> ******

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*DIRECTED READINGS-GRKM V3997. 1-4 pts.*

Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period 
or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.**

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DIRECTED READINGS-GRKM W4997. 3pts.*

Designed for graduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on 
a topic not covered in the curriculum.

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