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POLITICAL TRAJECTORIES OF IRAQ, SYRIA & LEBANON (1920-2020) (HI3073)

This course explores the modern political history of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and how local as well as regional and international developments regularly connected them or had different political echoes and implications in each of them. To Explain that, the course revisits eight historical moments (between 1920 and 2020) and analyzes their events and dynamics in the three countries.

TOPICS IN HISTORY (SORBONNE) (HI3090)

A limited number of students with requisite oral and written competence in French may follow one course at the Universite de Paris IV - Sorbonne. Every semester, a different selection of courses will be proposed from the Sorbonne's History department, generally on a subject of the cultural and social history of Europe. Students who are selected for participation attend amphitheater lectures and classroom meetings (travaux diriges) at the Sorbonne, and also classroom meetings at AUP through the semester with a designated faculty member. Tests, exams, oral presentations and papers are assigned both at the Sorbonne and at AUP. The course grade and credits are given as for an AUP course. Information on this cooperative program is available from Professor Miranda Spieler.

TOPICS IN HISTORY (HI3091)

Courses on different topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty. Topics vary each semester.

INTERNSHIP (HI3098)

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

IMPERIAL ROME: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, SOCIETY (HI3114)

Studies the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire. Readings will include: Seneca, star prose writer and poet of tragedies that impressed Shakespeare; Lucanus’ anti-Aeneid; Petronius’ Satyrica, the first Latin novel; Tacitus, the dark historian; witty epigrams and biting satire; a speech On Magic; the Stoics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, one an ex-slave, the other an emperor; and Plutarch’s account of Antony's love for Cleopatra

KEY TEXTS: SOCRATES, SOPHISTS, AND THE STAGE (HI3116)

A grand tour of 5th cent. BCE Athens, a fascinating time of intellectual unrest and innovation. Readings include the founding fathers of drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), Old Comedy (Aristophanes), fragments of the Greek sophists, the historiographers Herodotus and Thucydides, Xenophon’s Recollections of Socrates and early Platonic dialogues, such as the Apology and the Phaedo.

EMPIRE AND INDIVIDUAL: FROM ALEXANDER TO CAESAR (HI3117)

A tour through 300 years of Greek and Roman history and shifting multiethnic empires, from the death of Alexander to the death of Cleopatra (30 BCE). We read a lot: overviews of the Hellenistic Age and the Roman Republic as well as original works by Menander, Epicurus, Cleanthes, Callimachus, Theocritus, Aratus, Apollonius Rhodius, Polybius, Plautus, Terence, Ennius, Sallustius, Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius, Catullus, and others.

INTERNSHIP (HI3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.