Minor Concentration Neo-Hellenic Studies 

PROGRAM ADVISOR

Prof. Anastassios Anastassiadis        

Email: tassos.anastassiadis@mcgill.ca
Office: Leacock Building 827
Office Hours: Friday, 9:00am-12:00pm

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Minor Concentration in Neo-Hellenic Studies immerses students in the rich literary and cultural tradition of Greece. The Minor Concentration is designed to enable students to achieve linguistic proficiency in Modern Greek and to provide them with an understanding of the diachronic influence and the synchronic importance of the Modern Greek language, literature and history in the contemporary global world of diversity and pluralism.

Why Minor in Neo-Hellenic Studies? The Program Advisor explains here. 

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Complementary (18 credits)

Students may choose 12-15 credits from the following courses: Students are required to take a minimum of 12 credits at the 300-level or above.

• CLAS 230D1 Introductory Modern Greek (3 Credits)
• CLAS 230D2 Introductory Modern Greek (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 331 Intermediate Modern Greek 1 (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 332 Intermediate Modern Greek 2 (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 335 Modern Greek Culture & Society (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 336 Modern Greek Literature (3 Credits) 
• HIST 349 Greece: From Ottoman to the EU (3 Credits) 

Additionally, students may choose 3-6 credits from the following list:
(With advisor’s approval, other courses might also be considered)

• ARTH 314 The Medieval City  (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 203 Greek Mythology  (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 300 Ancient Drama and Theatre  (3 Credits) 
• CLAS 404 Classical Tradition  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 205 Ancient Mediterranean History  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 226E Central &SE Europe in 20th C  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 262 Medit & Euro Interconnections  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 362 Byzantine Hist&Historiography  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 368 Greek Hist: Classical Period  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 369 Greek History: Early Greece  (3 Credits) 
• HIST 379 Greek History:Hellenistic Per.  (3 Credits) 
• PHIL 345 Greek Political Theory  (3 Credits) 
• PHIL 353 The Presocratic Philosophers  (3 Credits) 
• PHIL 355 Aristotle  (3 Credits) 
• PHIL 452 Later Greek Philosophy  (3 Credits) 
• PHIL 454 Ancient Moral Theory  (3 Credits) 
• POLI 333 Western Political Theory 1  (3 Credits)