Greek 100: Euripides' Medea

Spring 2015

MWF 11:00 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Classical Studies Library

Red-Figure vase from the Louvre depicting Medea killing a child

Requirements

In this course, we will be reading selections from Euripides' Medea as well as passages from other works, ancient and modern, which shed light on it.  One 6-page paper will be due in the final week of the quarter (topics will be due in the seventh and rough drafts will be due the eighth week); there will also be three tests, on or about the end of the third, sixth, and ninth weeks.  Students' work will be assessed as follows:

Paper (including draft and editing of others' drafts)

25%

Quizzes and tests

40%

Participation and preparedness

35%

Texts

The following book for the course should be available at the Bay Tree Bookstore: Mastronarde, Donald. Medea. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Office Hours and Contact Info

Office hours will be Tuesday 12-1 p.m. in 240 Cowell, and by appointment. The best way to reach me outside of office hours is by email, at jklynn@ucsc.edu.

Assignments

Assignments will be posted on our course Canvas site.

ADA Info

If you qualify for classroom accommodations because of a disability, please get an Accommodation Authorization from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) and submit it to me in person outside of class (e.g., office hours) within the first two weeks of the quarter. Contact the DRC at 459-2089 (voice), 459-4806 (TTY), or http://drc.ucsc.edu for more information on the requirements and/or process.