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Intercampus Student Exchange

New Courses for the 2006-2007 School Year:

University of California at Santa Barbara

Fall 2006 - Religious Studies 139C: Coptic Language and Literature - Professor Christine M. Thomas

The class meets twice a week. We complete the basic grammar in two 
quarters. In the third quarter, we read selected texts according to 
student interest. I teach Sahidic Coptic with the user-friendly teaching 
grammar of Thomas Lambdin, though we also spend some time with Bentley 
Layton's grammar. We usually also stray into the Sub-Akhmimic dialect in 
our readings. Although an important source language for late antique 
Christianity (especially asceticism, monasticism, and Gnosticism), Coptic 
has a relatively limited vocabulary and array of grammatical features, so 
it is easy to learn.

Fall 2006 - Religious Studies 116C: Archaeology and the Study of Religion - Professor Christine M. Thomas

An examination of the uses of archaeological materials to reconstruct the 
history of religions in the ancient world, with special attention to the 
relationships between material culture, religious iconography, epigraphy, 
and sacred texts. Examples drawn chiefly from the ancient Mediterranean, 
including Minoan and Bronze Age Greece, early and late antique 
Christianity, with examples from China and Mesoamerica.

Fall 2006 - HIST 113Q: Persecution and Toleration in the Late Roman Empire (undergraduate seminar) Professor Elizabeth Digeser

Fall 2006 - HIST 201E: Graduate Reading Seminar: Persecution and Toleration in the Late Roman Empire - Professor Elizabeth Digeser

Winter 2007 - Religious Studies 139D: Coptic Language and Literature - Professor Christine M. Thomas

Spring 2007 - Religious Studies 139E: Coptic Language and Literature - Professor Christine M. Thomas

Spring 2007 - Religious Studies 104  Sex, Cosmogony and God in Early Christianity. Professor Christine M. Thomas with Roger Friedland

Seminar. Comparison of Jewish, Greek, and Christian understandings.

Fall 2007 - HIST 114A: The History of Christianity: Origins to 800 CE - Professor Elizabeth Digeser

Undergraduate lecture; the evolution of Christianity within the ancient and late antique Mediterranean world

Fall 2007 - HIST 201E: Graduate Reading Seminar: Neoplatonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity - Professor Elizabeth Digeser

University of California at Davis

Winter 2007 - CLA 190 - Senior Seminar - Professor Emily Albu

The World of Late Antiquity.

University of California at Riverside

Fall 2006 -191Z - Senior Seminar - Professor Michele Salzman

Religion and Imperial Power in the Roman Empire 

Fall 2006 - RLST 235 - Graduate Course - Professor Andrew Jacobs

Christian Hagiography, covering primarily late antiquity but also broader theories and issues in saints' lives and Lives.

Spring of 2007- HISE117 - Professor Michele Salzman

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Spring 2007 - History 222 - Graduate Course - Professor Michele Salzman

Introduction to Late Antiquity: Themes, Theories and Methods

Spring 2007 - RLST 133 - Upper division undergraduate - Professor Andrew Jacobs

Christian Origins: an introduction to Christianity in Late Antiquity (roughly 100-500 CE)

NEW SEMINAR in Late Antiquity, offered Spring 06.

HIST 222. Approaches to Late Antiquity. 

See pictures from the first meeting of the seminar here.

An introduction to the central sources and  historiographical debates in the field of Late Antiquity.

This seminar will serve as an introduction to the central sources and
historiographical debates in the field of Late Antiquity, ca. 200-800 CE. It
is especially suited for exam preparation in this field.

The seminar is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduate
students. It is especially recommended as preparation for graduate school or
for Ph.D. qualifying exams in the field of Late Antiquity.

THIS SEMINAR WILL NOT BE OFFERED AGAIN FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS.

The seminar will be team-taught through video-conferencing by Professor
Michele Salzman at UC Riverside and Professor Hal Drake at UC Santa Barbara.

UCLA STUDENTS will be hooked up from a classroom on the UCLA campus. They
should register, through intercampus registration, with Professor Salzman at
UCR (msalzman@ucr.edu). The intercampus office is in Murphy Hall, on the
ground floor.

Special highlights:
--an in-person MEETING of all seminar participants on APRIL 8, 12.00-3.00 at
UCLA, Bunche 6275. 
--guest lectures by Professor Emily Albu, UC Davis, and Claudia Rapp, UCLA
--special visit by Bryan Ward-Perkins, Trinity College, Oxford, to discuss
his recent book "The Fall of Rome"

Course details:
HIST 222 at UCR, History Department
APPROACHES TO LATE ANTIQUITY
Call No.: 17789
Thursday: 3:10-6:00 p.m, Powell 285
Professor Salzman, UCR in conjunction with Professor Drake, UCSB

Syllabus

Last Updated 4/11/06