Spring 2006

GK 606Q • Accelerated First-Year Greek

Course Description

Prerequisites Students should have previous experience studying a foreign language. Course Description This course is an intensive introduction to ancient Greek designed to provide students as quickly as is feasible with a solid foundation for reading original passages in Attic prose and poetry. We shall use a long-established introductory Greek text, and move at a pace which will challenge but not overwhelm. At the end of the course, we shall begin reading Plato's Apology. Grading Policy Course grade based on daily class work, periodic quizzes, regular one-hour tests, and a final exam. Texts Hansen & Quinn, Greek: An Intensive Course (2nd revised ed.). Helm, Plato: The Apology of Socrates

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