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0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number	Title	Codes	Cross-Lists
LATIN 25	Introduction to Literature
CLST 89S	First-Year Seminar
GREEK 101	Elementary Greek	FL
LATIN 101	Elementary Latin	FL
GREEK 102	Elementary Greek	FL
LATIN 102	Elementary Latin	FL
CLST 107	Roman Art and Archaeology	ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 107
GREEK 111	Intensive First-Year Greek	FL
LATIN 111	Intensive First-Year Latin	FL
CLST 122	Scribes and Scriptures: The Transmission of the Bible in Antiquity	CCI, CZ	RELIGION 122
CLST 139	Seven Wonders: Monuments and Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 257 ARTHIST 139
CLST 141	Age of Warriors: Pre-Roman and Italian Archaeology	CCI, CZ
CLST 143CNS	The Archaeology of Death: Ritual and Social Structure in the Ancient World
CLST 144	Principles of Archaeology	CCI, EI, CZ
CLST 151	Classical Etymology: The Greek and Latin Roots of English	CCI, SS
CLST 175S	An Archaeology of Inequality: Ancient Rome in Ten Objects	CCI, R, CZ	ARTHIST 175S CULANTH 175S HISTORY 132S
CLST 181S	Greek Civilization	CCI, CZ
CLST 182S	Roman Civilization	CCI, CZ
CLST 190	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 190S	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 199	Archaeology of Migration: Greeks, Roman, Egyptians, Etruscans	CCI, CZ, SS
CLST 201S	The Greeks	CCI, ALP, CZ	HISTORY 271S
CLST 202	The Romans	CCI, CZ
GREEK 203	Intermediate Greek	FL, CZ
LATIN 203	Intermediate Latin	FL, CZ
GREEK 203A-1	Intermediate Greek	FL
LATIN 203A-1	Intermediate Latin: Caesar's Civil War	FL
CLST 204	Ancient and Medieval Epic	CCI, ALP	MEDREN 303
CLST 206	Classics of Page and Screen: Exploring the Iconic in Literature and Film	CCI, ALP, CZ
CLST 208	Ancient Myth	CCI, ALP, CZ	RELIGION 208
CLST 210	The Good Life: Religion, Philosophy, and Life's Ultimate Concerns	CCI, R, CZ	ETHICS 210 HISTORY 266 JEWISHST 210 PHIL 214 PUBPOL 229 RELIGION 210
CLST 211	How to Live and How to Die: Death, Dying, and the Afterlife from Confucius to Cryonics	CCI, EI, CZ	ETHICS 325 PHIL 302
CLST 214	Medicine and Human Flourishing	CCI, EI, STS, CZ	ETHICS 214 GLHLTH 238
CLST 214D	Medicine and Human Flourishing	CCI, EI, STS, CZ	ETHICS 214D GLHLTH 238D
CLST 222	The Age of Nero: History, Art, and Literature	CCI, ALP, CZ	HISTORY 241
CLST 230S	Augustine's City of God	CCI, EI, ALP, CZ	ETHICS 230S MEDREN 355S POLSCI 396S RELIGION 231S
CLST 240L	Virtual Museums: Theories and Methods of Twenty-First-Century Museums	R, STS, ALP	ARTHIST 305L ARTSVIS 305L CMAC 332L ISS 305L VMS 332L
CLST 241	Etruscans: Myth, Archaeology and Civilization	CCI, CZ	ARTHIST 196
CLST 243S	Representations of Women in the Classical World	CCI, W, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 215S VMS 209S
CLST 246	Roman Archaeology: Origins to Empire	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 246
CLST 248	Art and Archaeology of Ancient Athens	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 208
CLST 250	The Art of Greece and Rome	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 210
LATIN 251	Refresher Latin	FL
CLST 252	Loot: Who owns the past?	EI, CZ	ARTHIST 217 MEDREN 356 RELIGION 218
LATIN 252	Advanced Intermediate Latin	FL, CZ
GREEK 252S	Advanced Intermediate Greek	FL, CZ
CLST 254	Seven Wonders: Monuments and Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean
CLST 262	Ancient Athletics	CCI, ALP, CZ	HISTORY 231
CLST 264	Greek and Roman Religion	CCI, CZ	RELIGION 215
CLST 266	Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World	CCI, ALP, CZ	GSF 266
CLST 268S	Ancient Sex Ed
CLST 271	History of Ancient Philosophy	CCI, CZ	PHIL 203
CLST 272A	The Birth of Reason in Ancient Greece	CCI, EI, CZ	PHIL 236A
CLST 276S	Contemporary Nationalism and Classical Political Theory	EI, W, CZ, SS	ETHICS 245S POLSCI 256S
CLST 277	How to Rule the World: Empire and Global Governance from Greece to America	CCI, EI, W, CZ	ETHICS 365 POLSCI 334
CLST 283	Greek History	CCI, CZ	HISTORY 230
CLST 284	Roman History	CCI, CZ	HISTORY 233
CLST 290	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 290A	Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 290S	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 290SA	Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 291	Independent Study
GREEK 291	Independent Study
LATIN 291	Independent Study
CLST 293	Research Independent Study	R
LATIN 293	Research Independent Study	R, W
CLST 299L	Introduction to Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes	CCI, CZ	SCISOC 299L
GREEK 301A-1	Advanced Greek	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 301A-1	Advanced Latin	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 302S	The Catilinarian Conspiracy	FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 303	Drama of Ancient Greece	ALP, CZ	THEATRST 230 VMS 282
CLST 304	Drama of Ancient Rome	CCI, ALP, CZ	THEATRST 227 VMS 240
GREEK 304S	Greek Historians	EI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 304S	History and Biography	EI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 305S	Roman Historians	FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 307	Ancient Athenian Law	CCI, CZ	HISTORY 413 POLSCI 380
LATIN 307S	Philosophy in Rome	FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 308	Ancient Roman Law	CCI, CZ	HISTORY 240 POLSCI 381
GREEK 308S	Greek Philosophy	EI, FL, CZ
LATIN 308S	Latin Epistle	FL, ALP
CLST 312S	Ancient Greek Notions of Justice	CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
GREEK 312S	Greek Oratory and Rhetoric	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 312S	Oratory/ Rhetoric	CCI, FL, ALP
CLST 316S	Self-Knowledge and the Pursuit of Wisdom	CCI, EI, ALP, CZ	ETHICS 316S
LATIN 316S	Latin Novel	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 320S	Ovid	FL, ALP
CLST 322	Jesus and the Gospels	CCI, EI, CZ	RELIGION 351
LATIN 322S	Vergil	CCI, FL, ALP
GREEK 324S	Greek Epic	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 324S	Latin Epic	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 326S	Latin Lyric	CCI, FL, ALP
CLST 328S	Literary Translation: History, Theory, and Practice	CCI, W, ALP	ENGLISH 325S JEWISHST 310S LINGUIST 325S RELIGION 310S
GREEK 328S	Lyric and Hellenistic Poetry	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 328S	Elegy	CCI, FL, ALP
GREEK 332S	Greek Drama	EI, FL, ALP
LATIN 332S	Drama	CCI, FL, ALP
GREEK 334S	Ancient Greek Scholarship: G(r)eeks on Greek	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 336S	Satire	CCI, EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 340A	Rome: History of the City	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 209A HISTORY 238A
CLST 341A	The Ancient City	CCI
CLST 341A-1	Art and Archaeology	CCI, ALP
CLST 341A-2	Political, Social, and Cultural Context	CCI, CZ
CLST 343SA	Conservation and Management of the Material Heritage	CCI, CZ	ARTHIST 343SA
CLST 344	Early Greek Archaeology: From the Fall of Mycenae to the Persian Wars	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 206
GREEK 344S	Greek Novel	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 346S	Classical Sculpture	W, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 340S
CLST 348	Classical Greek Archaeology, Archaic to Classical	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 207
CLST 350	Art of the Meal: Alcohol and Feasting in the Ancient World	CCI, CZ, SS	ARTHIST 351 CULANTH 351
GREEK 350S	Readings in the Greek Bible and the Greek Fathers	EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 352	The Aegean Bronze Age	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 205
CLST 354	Roman Spectacle	CCI, EI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 334 VMS 334
LATIN 356S	Lucretius: On the Nature of Things	CCI, EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 357	Roman Coinage: The Materiality of an Ancient Economy	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 347
CLST 360	The History of the Book	R, ALP, CZ	HISTORY 367 ISS 360 MEDREN 346
LATIN 360S	Latin of the Late Roman Republic	FL, ALP
LATIN 362S	Latin Panegyric: Praise and Blame in Latin Letters and Life	CCI, EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 364	Ancient Science and Technology	STS, CZ	HISTORY 236
CLST 366	Inventing Sickness: The Science and Practice of Medicine in Ancient Greece	EI, STS, CZ, SS	HISTORY 365 HISTORY 364
CLST 368S	The Afterlife of Classics	CCI, ALP, CZ
LATIN 368S	Pliny and Martial	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 370S	Ancient Autobiography: Augustine's Confessions	CCI, EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 371	Aristotle	EI, CZ	PHIL 317
CLST 374S	Aristotle and Neuroscience	CCI, EI, CZ, SS	ETHICS 274S NEUROSCI 274S
LATIN 376S	Medieval Latin	FL, ALP, CZ	MEDREN 348S
LATIN 390S	Special Topics in Latin Literature	FL
CLST 480S	Capstone Seminars in Classical Studies	CCI, R, W, ALP, CZ
CLST 480S-1	Capstone Research Seminars in Classical Studies	CCI, R, ALP, CZ
CLST 490	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 491	Independent Study
GREEK 491	Independent Study
LATIN 491	Independent Study
CLST 493	Research Independent Study	R
GREEK 493	Research Independent Study	R
LATIN 493	Research Independent Study	R
GREEK 504	Historians	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 504S	Selections from Latin Texts/Authors in the Genres of History, Oratory, and/or Philosophy	EI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 508S	Greek Philosophy	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
LATIN 508S	Medieval and Renaissance Latin	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ	MEDREN 608S
LATIN 511	Intensive First-Year Latin	FL
GREEK 512S	Greek Rhetoric and Oratory	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 516S	Ancient Greek Literary Criticism	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 520S	Greek Epic	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 524S	Greek Lyric	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 524S	Latin Poetry: Epic, Lyric, and Elegy	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 528	Drama	CCI, EI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 528S	Greek History: Fifth through First Centuries BC	CZ	HISTORY 528S
LATIN 528S	Selections from Latin Texts/Authors in the Genres of Drama, Satire, and/or the Novel	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
GREEK 534S	Ancient Greek Scholarship: G(r)eeks on Greek	CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
CLST 536	The Roman Empire	CCI, R, CZ	HISTORY 538
CLST 536S	Roman History from Augustus through Late Antiquity	CCI, CZ	HISTORY 539S
CLST 540S	Roman Coinage: The Materiality of the Roman Economy	CCI, R, CZ	ARTHIST 549S
CLST 542S	Greek Art: Hellenistic to Roman	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 502S
CLST 543S	The Archaeology of Death: Ritual and Social Structure in the Ancient World	CCI, R, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 545S
CLST 544L	Introduction to Digital Archaeology	R, STS, CZ	ARTHIST 547L ISS 544L
GREEK 544S	Readings in the Greek Novel	CCI, FL, ALP
CLST 546S	Ancient Spain and Portugal: The Roman Provinces of the Iberian Peninsula	CCI, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 503S
CLST 547S	Roman Provincial Archaeology: The West	CCI, R, ALP, CZ	ARTHIST 520S
CLST 550	Principles of Pre-Roman and Etruscan Archaeology	CCI, CZ
GREEK 551	Elementary Greek for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL
LATIN 551	Elementary Latin for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL
CLST 551S	Principles of Roman Archaeology	CCI, R, CZ	ARTHIST 553S
CLST 552	Greek Archaeology Survey, Part 1	CCI, CZ	ARTHIST 556
GREEK 552	Elementary Greek for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL
LATIN 552	Elementary Latin for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL
CLST 553	Greek Archaeology Survey, Part 2	CCI, CZ
CLST 558S	Live Images: Ancient and Medieval Representations of the Divine	CCI, W, ALP, CZ	MEDREN 507S RELIGION 552S VMS 533S
CLST 560	Etruscan Cities	CCI, CZ	ARTHIST 561
CLST 571S	Ancient Political Philosophy	CCI, EI, SS	PHIL 571S POLSCI 575S
CLST 572S	Plato	CZ	PHIL 511S
CLST 573S	Aristotle	CZ	PHIL 512S
GREEK 580	Survey of Greek Literature	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 580	Survey of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to Late Antiquity	CCI, FL, ALP
LATIN 581S	Latin Prose Syntax and Style	CCI, FL
GREEK 582S	Greek Epigraphy	FL, CZ
LATIN 584S	Latin Palaeography	FL, ALP, CZ	MEDREN 647S
LATIN 585S	Latin Epigraphy	FL, CZ
GREEK 586S	Papyrology	FL, CZ
CLST 590S	Special Topics in Greek Art		ARTHIST 590S-1
CLST 590S-1	Special Topics in Greek Archaeology		ARTHIST 590S-11
CLST 590SL	Special Topics in Roman Archaeology		ARTHIST 590SL
GREEK 653	Intermediate Greek for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL, CZ
LATIN 653	Intermediate Latin for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL, CZ
LATIN 654	Advanced Intermediate Latin for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL, CZ
GREEK 654S	Advanced Intermediate Greek for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL, CZ
LATIN 655	Refresher Latin for Graduate Students outside Classical Studies	FL, CZ
CLST 690S	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 691	Directed Reading and Research
GREEK 691	Directed Reading and Research
LATIN 691	Directed Reading and Research
GREEK 711	Intensive First Year Ancient Greek for Graduate Students
CLST 724S	Seminar in Ancient History I (Topics)
CLST 725S	Women in Antiquity: An Intensive Methodological Introduction		ARTHIST 725S
CLST 729S	Religious Material Culture in Theory and Practice		ARTHIST 911S RELIGION 911S
GREEK 730S	Readings in the Greek Bible and the Greek Fathers for Graduate Students
CLST 733L	Virtual Museums: Theories and Methods of Twenty-First-Century Museums		ARTHIST 733L ARTSVIS 733L CMAC 733L ISS 733L
CLST 744S	Archaeology Seminar I (Topics)
CLST 748S	Archaeology Seminar II (Topics)
GREEK 750S	Foundations of Ancient Greek: History, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Stylistics
CLST 754S	Greek Sculpture in Athens, Archaic to Roman		ARTHIST 727S
LATIN 764	Seminar in Latin Literature I
GREEK 764S	Seminar in Greek Literature I (Selected Topics)
GREEK 768S	Seminar in Greek Literature II
LATIN 768S	Seminar in Latin Literature II
CLST 790	Special Topics in Classical Studies
CLST 802S	Atheisms before Secularism from Socrates to Spinoza		ARTHIST 802S RELIGION 802S
CLST 808S	Classical Studies Pedagogy
CLST 881	Christian Manuscript Culture		HISTORY 881 RELIGION 885
CLST 940S	Death and Dying in Late Antiquity		RELIGION 930S

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