Spring 2027 Course Offerings
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Spring 2027 Courses
Elementary Modern Greek II, Argyro Nicolaou
GRKM UN1102 - 4 Points
M/W 12:10-2:00 PM
A continuation of UN1101 but new students may be placed into it, after special arrangement with the instructor. The students are expected to be able to read texts containing high frequency vocabulary and basic structures; understand basic conversations or understand the gist of more complex conversations on familiar topics; produce simple speech on familiar topics; communicate in simple tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters; write short texts or letters on familiar subjects. In parallel, the students continue to explore Modern Greece’s cultural landscape and deepen their understanding of Greek culture.
Intermediate Modern Greek II, Chrysanthe Filippardos
GRKM UN2102 - 4 Points
M/W 6:10-8:00 PM
A continuation of UN2101, upon completion of the course, the students are able to read simple Greek newspaper articles, essays and short stories and to express their opinion on a number of familiar topics. In addition to these skills, students will be exposed to a number of authentic multi-modal cultural material that will allow them to acquire knowledge and understanding of the vibrant cultural landscape of Greece today.
Multilingual Worlds: Translation, Gender and the Greek Diaspora, Karen Van Dyck
CLGM GU4600 - 4 Points Cross-listed with ICLS; Global Core
M 10:10-12:00 PM
This course introduces students to the rich tradition of literature about and by Greeks in America over the past two centuries exploring questions of multilingualism, translation, migration and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” To what extent can migration be understood as translation and vice versa? How might debates in Diaspora and Translation Studies inform each other and how might both, in turn, elucidate the writing of and about Greeks and other ethnic minorities, especially women? Authors include Olga Broumas, Elia Kazan, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Ellery Queen, Eleni Sikelianos, Irini Spanidou, and Thanasis Valtinos as well as performance artists such as Diamanda Galás. Theoretical and comparative texts include works by Walter Benjamin, Rey Chow, Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka, Toni Morrison, and Lawrence Venuti, as well as films such as Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant and The Wizard of Oz. No knowledge of Greek is necessary, although an extra-credit directed reading is open to those wishing to read texts in Greek
The World Responds to the Greeks, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa
CLGM 3920 - 3 Points Cross-listed with ICLS; Global Core
T 2:10-4:00 PM
This course examines how literary, artistic, and cultural traditions receive and reinvent some of the most recognizable motifs of Greek myth, theater, and politics. It approaches critical reception—through translation, adaptation, performance, and experimental rewriting—as a practice of interpretation, critique, and world-making. What possibilities do ancient motifs offer writers and artists working in particular social and historical contexts? How do their reimaginings transform our understanding of antiquity, challenging its inherited meanings and claims to cultural authority? How do modern Greek writers and artists negotiate inheritance and estrangement—in language as well as cultural identity—as they respond to an ancient past understood both as their own and as belonging to the world? Drawing on queer, feminist, postcolonial, and critical race approaches, the course explores how engagements with antiquity reconfigure race, gender, and sexuality, belonging and exclusion, power and resistance. Central to this inquiry is how appeals to antiquity make unequal social arrangements appear natural, legitimate, or inevitable—and how the creative possibilities of fragmentation, anachronism, and revision can unsettle these claims, give form to often marginalized experiences, and imagine alternative futures.
Public Humanities, Dimitris Antoniou
GRKM GU4040 - 4 Points
T 12:10-2:00 PM
What does it mean to bring the humanities into the public sphere? How can scholars, archivists, curators, and communities work together to produce knowledge, and what challenges does such an endeavor entail? This course invites students to explore the field of public humanities and gain hands-on experience with its aims, methods, and outcomes. The course is structured around three components: (1) seminars exploring how partners inside and outside the university can work together to make knowledge accessible and meaningful; (2) workshops in which students are introduced to the methods and tools of public-facing research, including conducting oral histories, producing podcasts, and curating online exhibitions; and (3) contributions to existing projects of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI).
The Century of Mikis Theodorakis: Greece from the 20th to the 21st Century through the Life and Music of Mikis Theodorakis, Paraskevi Martzavou
GRKM UN3180 - 3 Points
W 4:10-6:00 PM
Mikis Theodorakis's passing in 2021 marked a pivotal moment in how this great composer is seen as an agent of social and political change, not only in Greece but also in Europe and on the international stage. In this course, we will explore the life and work of the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in the context of the troubled passage from the 20th to the 21st century. This course aims to be an exploration of the historical circumstances in the early 20th-century Balkans, and the way literary production, notably poetry through the work of Theodorakis, expressed and shaped the social and political struggles worldwide. The focus will be on popular culture and popular music—and notably popular song-- as a means of political struggle through everyday life experience. We will focus on popular song as an artistic creation, as Theodorakis shaped it, using poetry brought to the masses through radio and popular concerts.
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Supervised Independent Research, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM GU4460 01
Supervised Independent Research, Paraskevi Martzavou GRKM GU4460 02
Supervised Independent Research, Karen van Dyck GRKM GU4460 03
Supervised Independent Research, Dimitris Antoniou GRKM GU4460 04
Directed Readings, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN3997 01
Directed Readings, Paraskevi Martzavou GRKM UN3997 02
Directed Readings, Karen van Dyck GRKM UN3997 03
Directed Readings, Dimitris Antoniou GRKM UN3997 04
Senior Research Seminar, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN3998 01