Just FYI, we have opened a class that satisfies the General Education Criteria for Advanced Composition, Literature & the Arts and Western Comparative Culture for spring 2015.

CLCV 323/CWL 322 The Comic Imagination
1:00-1:50 MWF
Daniel Leon
Description. This course will introduce you to the comic plays of ancient Greece and Rome.  These plays range from sharp political satire to outright slapstick and have collectively helped to shape the Western comic tradition.  We will examine them as artifacts of the cultures that produced them and learn how to situate the fun of comedy within a serious socio-cultural discourse – hopefully without killing the fun.  This class fulfills the general education criteria for advanced composition, and so another main goal is to improve your ability to write, both in terms of working with evidence and expressing yourself clearly and forcefully.

All best,

Ariana Traill
Associate Professor, Head
Latin Program Coordinator
Department of the Classics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign