Current Courses

Fall 2009

Modern Greek V1101. Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture/ part I. 4 pts. Karen Van Dyck. T-Th. 9:00-10:50 & GRKM W1111 conversation below. This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for students wishing to learn Greek as it is written and spoken in Greece today. Students also required to take the conversation class, GRKM W1111 (below)

Modern Greek W1111: Elementary Modern Greek Conversation. Staff, 1 pt. Open also to students not enrolled in V1101 above.

Modern Greek V1201. Intermediate course in Modern Greek language and culture/ part I. 4 pts. Vangelis Calotychos. M W 11:00 – 12:50 pm. & GRKM W1211 conversation below. This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the basic grammar and syntax of Modern Greek language. Using films, newspapers and popular songs, students engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their vocabulary. Students also required to take the conversation class, GRKM W1211 (below)

Modern Greek W1211: Intermediate Modern Greek Conversation Staff, 1pt. Open also to students not enrolled in V1101 above.

Comparative Literature: Modern Greek GRKM W4290. Area and Interdisciplinarity: Greece at the Crossroads / T. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.. Karen Van Dyck, with visiting faculty. 3 pts. This course sets out to examine the kind of analytical frame a particular area (Greece, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Europe, Greek-America) provides for interdisciplinary work, also how different disciplines understand this frame. Students will be introduced to key aspects of Greek culture as well as to faculty at Columbia working on Greece in different departments. The focus will be on literature as a discipline works comparatively and how it borrows and differs from other disciplines in its forms of comparativism. Students in other area studies programs encouraged to participate. Texts are available in both English and Greek. The course can be taken with an extra credit tutorial for students reading materials in Greek.

Comparative Literature: Modern Greek GRKM W3390: The Politics of Poiein: Greek Poets and their Interlocutors. Stathis Gourgouris. T 11-1, 3 pts. This course stages an imaginary dialogue between certain Greek poets, whose work spans the 20th century, and poets of the same era from other parts of the world, for whom Greek motifs are crucial to their poetic sensibility. The course will engage in interrogations of modernity and, moreover, the specific ways in which figures of modernity and figures of Hellenism are entwined. Pays attention to different articulations of poiēsis, especially as they pertain to a certain politics. The literary historical sphere spans the range of early modernism to postmodernism and postcolonialism, as well as specific poetic-political sensibilities, whether aestheticist or Marxist, feminist or queer, etc. This course is given with a bilingual option (1 hr per week) for those students who have the skills to discuss the Greek poems in the original. But also, students who come from language departments, whose literature may be represented in the selection, will be expected to work on the non-Greek poems in the original language as well.

Modern Greek V3997. Directed Readings. 1-4 pts. Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

 

Modern Greek W4997. Directed Readings. 3 pts. Designed for graduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

 

Modern Greek V3998. Senior Research Seminar. 1-4 pts. Designed for students writing a senior thesis or doing advanced research on Greek or Greek Diaspora topics.