{"id":228,"date":"2025-07-29T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/program-philosophy\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:35:42","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/program-philosophy\/greece-study-tour\/requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-228\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-228-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-228-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Grades for the course are based upon the following:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-228-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-228-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<ul>\n<li>Pre-departure, a 4-5-page paper (plus bibliography and diagrams or maps) on the site you will have chosen for your site report \u2013 10%, e-mailed to your professor no later than four days prior to departure.<\/li>\n<li>Your oral site report (4-8 mins.) given to the group at the site \u2013 5%<\/li>\n<li>Your oral reports (3-5 mins. each) on your 2 Who\u2019s Who subjects \u2013 5% x 2 = 10%<\/li>\n<li>Your creative, oral re-telling of a Greek or Roman myth, not as an oral report, but as told from the point of view of one of the parties to the events, whether major or minor parties, or perhaps even of that of a bystander to, or a prop in, the events \u2013 5%.<\/li>\n<li>Eight written assignments given in Greece (either responses of 250-750 words or quizzes on the reading)\u00a0\u2013 40%<\/li>\n<li>An 8-12 page (not including bibliography, any diagrams, title page, or the like) research paper due August 1, on a topic relevant to the sites we visit or the issues raised in the readings and seminars \u2013 30%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-228-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-1-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-89f16426b92c-228\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\">\n\t\t<img \n\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2025\/07\/greece-requirements.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2025\/07\/greece-requirements.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2025\/07\/greece-requirements-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" alt=\"Several people examine and sort pottery shards spread out on a table outdoors, with one person standing in the background holding a box.\" \t\tclass=\"so-widget-image\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-228-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-228-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-2-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>The final paper can have an archaeological, cultural, environmental, gender, historical, literary, philosophical, political, religious, or theatrical focus, but the topic must be discussed with the instructors prior to writing\u2013in fact, prior to the end of the study tour.<\/p>\n<p>For those hoping to use this course to satisfy a requirement for a major or a minor, the\u00a0 selection of\u00a0 the topic and the use of sources should be appropriate to that discipline. A paper for someone hoping to use INTL 330 to satisfy a requirement in History or in Philosophy, for example, must use (and not merely mention) primary sources.<\/p>\n<p>Because work due in Greece is sequenced to our itinerary, such work submitted late will not be accepted and will receive a grade of zero. \u00a0For work due prior to departure (namely, the site paper) or after our return (namely, the final paper), late work loses one grade (10%), with an additional grade lost for each additional 24 hours of lateness.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll post in our course\u2019s Google folder a book with information about some 50 myths, from which each student will select a myth to tell creatively. (You can use other sources if you like; but this is not intended to be a time-intensive research project. That\u2019s why I\u2019ll post the book that gives the basic stories, and you can take it from there.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-228-3\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-228-3-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-3-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2>Grading criteria for creative retelling of a Greek or Roman myth:<\/h2>\n<p>Creativity in conception &amp; execution = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Accuracy, fidelity to the traditions (with liberties taken only in the name of creativity) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Use of narrative thread = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Clarity of presentation = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of preparedness, practice = 10 points<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total = 50 points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For information on the site paper and site report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/philosophy\/greece-study-tour\/site-papers-reports\/\">see here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Who\u2019s Who exercise consists of each of you choosing two figures from these lists (preferably not from the same category), researching them, and then telling the rest of the group about each figure in 3-5 minutes while we\u2019re in Greece. (No paper for this; just an oral report.).<\/p>\n<p>Do not try to be encyclopedic about your figures, especially for those about whom much is known. Starting with a source like Wikipedia is fine. Sometimes you can get by with including just another source or two, none of which is a scholarly, academic source. (Not so for your site report.).<\/p>\n<p>Your aim is to leave the group with an enhanced sense of the importance of your figures (especially as they are relevant to Greece), and to do this in a way other than by a bland reading of a dry list of disconnected facts. Your job is to bring these figures to life in a few minutes, by finding the story of someone\u2019s life. Attend even to matters like intonation and body language.<\/p>\n<p>Notes are allowed, but the greater one\u2019s dependence on them, the less alive the figures become to the audience.<\/p>\n<h2>Grading criteria for the Site Report and the Who\u2019s Who reports:<\/h2>\n<p>Completeness \u00a0(Hits what\u2019s important?) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Accuracy\u00a0 (Gets the details right?) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Focus\u00a0 (Avoids what\u2019s extraneous?) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Clarity of presentation\u00a0 (Confusing? Also, projecting voice, pronouncing names; and for the site reports, explaining technical terms, appropriately using any handouts) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of preparedness\u00a0 (Smooth?) = 10 points<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total = 50 points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are examples of lists of possible Who\u2019s Whos from recent years. For the list of this year\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TwS0JHeeaHS-qzLRrxhX5enhG8JN4G-pVCJzXNYQIc8\/edit\">see here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-228-4\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-228-4-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-228-4-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_smcm-accordion panel-first-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-smcm-accordion so-widget-smcm-accordion-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"smcm-accordion  navy\"><div class=\"title-container\"><h3>Political figures<\/h3><i class=\"fa-solid fa-plus open-close\" ><\/i><\/div><div class=\"smcm-accordion-content\"> <div class=\"smcm-ac-content-wrapper\"><ul>\n<li>Themistocles (Athenian statesman and general from the Persian Wars)<\/li>\n<li>Pericles (Athenian statesman and general between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars) and his companion-then-wife, Aspasia.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander the Great<\/li>\n<li>Augustus (Roman Emperor 31-14)<\/li>\n<li>Nero (Roman Emperor 54-68)<\/li>\n<li>Hadrian (Roman emperor 117-138)<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 161-180)<\/li>\n<li>Commodus (Roman emperor 180-192)<\/li>\n<li>Constantine (Roman emperor 306-337)<\/li>\n<li>Justinian (Byzantine emperor 527-565; include his approach to religion)<\/li>\n<li>Io\u00e1nnes Kapod\u00edstrias (one of Greece\u2019s founding fathers, from the 1830\u2019s)<\/li>\n<li>King Otto of Greece (became king when he was 17, in 1832)<\/li>\n<li>Eleutherios Venizelos (prime minister for 15 years in early 20th century, and was key in making the Greek nation what it is).<\/li>\n<li>Constantine II (the last king of Greece)<\/li>\n<li>Melina Mercouri (20th-century actress, politician, Minister of Culture, and advocate for the return of the Parthenon marbles).<\/li>\n<li>the current prime minister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-228-4-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_smcm-accordion\" data-index=\"6\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-smcm-accordion so-widget-smcm-accordion-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"smcm-accordion  navy\"><div class=\"title-container\"><h3>Cultural figures<\/h3><i class=\"fa-solid fa-plus open-close\" ><\/i><\/div><div class=\"smcm-accordion-content\"> <div class=\"smcm-ac-content-wrapper\"><ul>\n<li>Sappho (7th-6th-century BCE poet from the island of Lesbos)<\/li>\n<li>Pheidias (= Phidias) (preeminent sculptor of 5th century BCE)<\/li>\n<li>Aeschylus (author of the Oresteia trilogy of plays, which we\u2019ll be reading)<\/li>\n<li>Sophocles (author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, the latter of which we\u2019ll be reading)<\/li>\n<li>Euripides (author of the play Medea, which we\u2019ll be reading)<\/li>\n<li>Aristophanes (author of the play\u00a0Lysistrata, which we\u2019ll be reading)<\/li>\n<li>Thucydides (author of The Peloponnesian War, of which we\u2019ll be reading excerpts)<\/li>\n<li>Socrates (5th-century BCE Athenian philosopher)<\/li>\n<li>Plato (5th-4th-century BCE philosopher)<\/li>\n<li>Aristotle (4th-century BCE philosopher and scientist)<\/li>\n<li>Praxiteles and Phryne (preeminent sculptor of 4th century BCE and his controversial courtesan model)<\/li>\n<li>Paul \u201cthe Apostle\u201d (author of many letters preserved in the New Testament)<\/li>\n<li>Herodes Atticus (a wealthy Greek orator and Roman senator who sponsored many buildings)<\/li>\n<li>theological differences between Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism\/Protestantism, including the significance of the \u201cFilioque\u201d clause.<\/li>\n<li>the Romani (singular: Roma), aka Gypsies, incl. as they\u2019ve lived in Greece<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Bruce, of Elgin (famous\/infamous for bringing the Parthenon marbles to Britain)<\/li>\n<li>Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann (discoverers of Troy and Mycenae)<\/li>\n<li>Sir Arthur Evans (discoverer of the Minoan palace of Knossos, which we\u2019ll visit)<\/li>\n<li>Konstantine Kavafy (Constantine Cavafy, 19th cent., the most famous Greek modern poet)<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Tschumi (lead architect of the new\u20132009\u2013Acropolis Museum in Athens)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-228-4-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_smcm-accordion panel-last-child\" data-index=\"7\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-smcm-accordion so-widget-smcm-accordion-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"smcm-accordion  navy\"><div class=\"title-container\"><h3>Scientific and mathematical figures<\/h3><i class=\"fa-solid fa-plus open-close\" ><\/i><\/div><div class=\"smcm-accordion-content\"> <div class=\"smcm-ac-content-wrapper\"><ul>\n<li>Hippocrates of Cos (physician)<\/li>\n<li>Archimedes (engineer and inventor)<\/li>\n<li>Eratosthenes (astronomer, mathematician who calculated the circumference of the earth)<\/li>\n<li>Galen (physician)<\/li>\n<li>Hypatia (mathematician and astronomer in 4th-5th century CE; 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