OFFICE HOURS:  WF 11-11:30 and by appointment.

REQUIRED TEXTS:
    Seneca.  Four Tragedies and Octavia
    Seneca.  Dialogues and Letters
    Apuleius.  The Golden Ass
    Juvenal.  The Sixteen Satires
    Tacitus.  The Annals of Imperial Rome
    Petronius.  The Satyricon

In addition to these books, there will be a few assignments from the web or from handouts in class.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:  By the end of this course you should be able to:
    1) recount the events in Roman history that led to the reign of Nero
    2) describe what life was like in the first and early second centuries AD
    3) name the major Roman authors of this period and their works and discuss their significance

EXAMS:  We will have one midterm exam (Thursday, March 6).  The final exam will be on Thursday, May 8 from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. in our regular classroom

GRADES:  Grades will be determined as follows:
 
 

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:  We will have three different sorts of writing assignments.

In-class writing:  To ensure that everyone is keeping up with the reading you may be asked to write a short piece at the beginning of class on the reading assignment for that day.  We won’t do this every class period, but we’ll do it once a week or so on average.  I reserve the right to increase this to every class period if the situation warrants it.  I will collect these, read them, and return them, but I won’t put a grade on them.  If you have not done an adequate job on one of these you will not receive credit for turning it in.

Essay:  There will be one essay assigned (2-3 pages).  You will hand in a draft, which I will read and return to you.  You will then have a week to revise the paper and turn it back in.

Research Paper:  A five to ten page research paper will also be assigned.  I will ask you to hand in an outline of your paper and a bibliography.  I will return this to you and then you can write and submit your paper.  There will be no rewrites on the research paper.

There will also be essays on the midterms and the final.

ATTENDANCE:  Regular attendance is expected.  Much of what you need to know will come from class lectures and discussion.  Poor attendance will result in your being dropped from the course.

OTHER INFORMATION:
1.  Please make sure you have read and understood the Academic Integrity Policy (it can be found at http://www.uncg.edu/saf/studiscp/Honor.html).  I will ask you to sign the Academic Integrity Pledge on all graded work.

2.  As far as homework is concerned, my standards are the same as those of the Bryan School of Business here at UNCG (found in the 2002-2003 Undergraduate Bulletin, p. 74):

         In general, students should plan to devote between 2-3 hours outside of class for
            each hour in class.