Current and Upcoming Courses

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Fall 2025

LAT 283/325: The Age of Caesar / Cicero's Orations

Students read selections from literary works composed during the final years of the Republic, focusing in this instance on Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, while students at the higher level will also read the Catilinarian orations of Cicero delivered during his consulship at the height of the consipracy. We pay close attention to the language and syntax, as well as the socio-historical context of these works. This course includes a writing component at the 300-level.

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LAT 332: Historical Masterworks

Students read selections from historiographical works composed during the final years of the Republic and early empire, focusing in this instance on Julius Caesar's Bellum Gallicum and Livy's Ab Urbe Condita. We pay close attention to the language and syntax, as well as the socio-historical context of these works. This course includes a writing component.

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CLST 362: Roman Law (Writing Intensive)

An introduction to Roman law, the ius civile, focusing in particular on “private” law (the law between private individuals rather than their interactions with the state) primarily during the first 300 years of the Imperial period (roughly 1–300 CE).

 

In keeping with the aims of the Sociolegal Studies Minor, this course aims to look beyond the “black letter” law (i.e., what any given “rule” is in Roman Law) to explore more deeply the ways Roman law affected Roman society, the values expressed in Roman law and shaped by its legal structures, and the links between Roman law and the social, economic, and political features of Roman society.

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Spring 2026

UCLR 100C: Classical Studies (CORE)

An introduction to the literatures of the Ancient Greeks and Romans along with their worlds, looking in particular at the story of Medea. By the end of the course, students will know the basic outlines of Greek and Roman civilization and will be ready to enter upper-level Classical Civilization electives and possibly even language courses having been enriched with the cultural knowledge and skills of critical analysis to approach the literary and, possibly, material records of the Classical world with acumen, thoughtfulness and sensitivity. The course includes a significant module on the reception of Medea's story in contemporary American theater.

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CLST 378: Sport in the Ancient Greece and Rome (Writing Intensive)

An analytical survey of the role and place of sport and spectacle in the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds, with a particular emphasis on the way sport can be (and is) used to reinforce prevailing social and societal norms. Students also develop skills and methods for working with both documentary sources and the material record. The course includes a writing component.

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LATN 303: Latin Prose Composition

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Previous Courses (please see my CV for more detail)

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• Introductory Latin in standard (2-semester), intensive (1-semester), and summer sequence.

• Intermediate Latin Reading courses.

• Latin Survey and specific authors.

• Latin Prose Composition.

• Introductory Greek in standard (2-semester), intensive (1-semester), and summer sequence.

• Intermediate Greek Reading courses.

• Greek Prose Composition.

• General Education courses on Classical Myth and Society, Classical Literature and Reception.

• Roman Civilization (including period specific courses).

• Sport and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds.

• Ancient Greek and Roman Law (in translation).