History (HIST) - Education in Ancient Greece and Rome

HIST 2306  Education in Ancient Greece and Rome

Prerequisites:

Six credits of 1000 level History or 24 credits completed

Antirequisites:

CLAS 2016

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students study the different formal and informal systems of education in Ancient Athens and Sparta and in the Roman Republic and Empire, including its intellectual, artistic, rhetorical and physical aspects. Students also examine the degree to which Greco-Roman education informed later Western educational practices from the Middle Ages to the present day.