CLST 205*
Ancient Humour

Please note that this is course will be offered in the new Blended Learning format.  

Instructor

Dr. R. Drew Griffith
Watson Hall 513
griffitd@queensu.ca

Teaching Assistants: 

(Who will be leading the Group-Learning Sessions and the sessions they will be facilitating; their office is Watson Hall 504; office-hours to be posted)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Nicol 232 Alicia Finan (3af17@queensu.ca)	8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Dunning 10 Lana De Gasperis -lana.degasperis@queensu.ca 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Kingston 304 Mike Fergusson (temporary) 5maf@queensu.ca	10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Nicol 232 Daniel Sloan - 5ds12@queensu.ca	8:30 AM - 9:30 PM Mac-Corry E202 Tori Bedingfield -  81tb8@queensu.ca ) Mike Fergusson (temporary)-  5maf@queensu.ca	10:30 AM - 11:30 AM   Rachel Di Cresce - 9crd@queensu.ca
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Dunning 10 Alicia Finan (3af17@queensu.ca)	9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Nicol 232 Lana De Gasperis - lana.degasperis@queensu.ca	3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Dunning 10 Daniel Sloan -5ds12@queensu.ca	12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Mac-Corry E230 Tori Bedingfield ( 81tb8@queensu.ca ) Mike Fergusson (temporary) 5maf@queensu.ca
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Dunning 10 Alicia Finan (3af17@queensu.ca)	3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Nicol 232 Lana De Gasperis -lana.degasperis@queensu.ca	4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Dunning 10 Daniel Sloan -5ds12@queensu.ca	2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Mac-Corry E230 Rachel Di Cresce -9crd@queensu.ca

 

Students are required to be familiar with Queen's policy on Academic Integrity .
Please also see: http://www.academicintegrity.org/

Texts:

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Griffith, R. Drew and Marks, Robert B. 2011.

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour, 2nd Revised Ed(Agora Harder). Kingston, Ontario.

Aristophanes

Four Plays by Aristophanes. Translated by William Arrowsmith, Richmond Lattimore, and Douglas Parker. New York, 1984.

Sullivan, J. P.,

The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis. London: Penguin Books, 1986.

Course Structure

There will be two lectures, one on the first Monday of the term and the other on the last Tuesday of the term.  Both will be in the Duncan McArthur Auditorium on west campus between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.).

Early each week there will be one narrated slide-show that students can access on Moodle at their convenience.  This will take the place of the weekly lectures, and also introduce the assignments for the Group Learning Sessions.

Every student will have to enroll in a one Group Learning Session, and attend their one-hour weekly meetings, where they will perform tasks set out in the week’s narrated slide show.  Each week will end with a summary of the week's activities by the professor posted on Moodle.

Each week will end with a summary of the week’s activities by the professor posted on Moodle.

Every other week there will be a 40-question multiple-choice test accessible on Moodle.

Marking Scheme

The tests are worth 10% of the final mark each.  I will automatically drop the lowest of the six marks.

A total of 20% of the final mark will be awarded for attendance in the Group Learning Sessions.  Students who attend all twelve sessions will get 20%.  Students who attend ten or eleven will get 15% and students who attend nine or less, will get 0%.  You must attend YOUR OWN Group Learning Session.  You cannot substitute another session for the one in which you are registered.

A total of 30% of the final mark will be awarded, according to a rubric that I will publicize during the first lecture, for participation in the Group Learning Sessions.

There will be no essay, and no final examination.

Schedule of Readings

• Week of September 10
  Griffith and Marks chapter one
• Week of September 17
  Griffith and Marks chapter two
• Week of September 24
   Griffith and Marks chapter three
• Week of October 1
  Griffith and Marks chapter four
• Week of October 8
   Griffith and Marks chapter five
• Week of October 15
  Griffith and Marks chapter six
• Week of October 22
  Griffith and Marks chapter seven
• Week of October 29
   Griffith and Marks chapter eight
• Week of November 5
  Griffith and Marks chapter nine
• Week of November 12
  Griffith and Marks chapter ten
• Week of November 19
  Griffith and Marks chapter eleven
  Lattimore et al.
• Week of November 26
  Griffith and Marks chapter twelve
  Sullivan.

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Test-Taking Policy

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Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is constituted by the five core fundamental values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility (see  www.academicintegrity.org). These values are central to the building, nurturing and sustaining of an academic community in which all members of the community will thrive. Adherence to the values expressed through academic integrity forms a foundation for the "freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas" essential to the intellectual life of the University (see the Senate  Report on Principles and Priorities)

Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the regulations concerning academic integrity and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of academic integrity. Information on academic integrity is available in the Arts and Science Calendar (see  Academic Regulations), on the Arts and Science website and from the instructor of this course.

Departures from academic integrity include plagiarism, use of unauthorized materials, facilitation, forgery and falsification, and are antithetical to the development of an academic community at Queen's. Given the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the regulation on academic integrity carry sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an assignment to the failure of a course to a requirement to withdraw from the university.

Download the  Statement on Academic Integrity for Inclusion in Course Syllabi and Assignments  [PDF]

Copyright

The material on this website is copyrighted and is for the sole use of students registered in CLST 205. The material on this website may be downloaded for a registered student’s personal use, but shall not be distributed or disseminated to anyone other than students registered in CLST 205.  Failure to abide by these conditions is a breach of copyright, and may also constitute a breach of academic integrity under the University Senate’s Academic Integrity Policy Statement.

 

This page was last updated 31 August, 2012.