Advanced reading, translation, and discussion of a complete tragedy of Sophocles, with attention to language, meter, staging, tragic themes and conventions, and the cultural context of Athenian drama, with an introduction to current scholarship.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

4

Units

Optional

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

Graduate students only

Level Limit

Letters and science

College
DUNN F M
Francis Dunn
3.7
138 reviews

Lecture

HSSB 4065
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14:00 PM - 15:15 PM
6 / 12
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CLAS40 . Dunn F M 9 Months Ago

Fun light class where you learn a lot. There's readings every week but they will be explained in lecture and section. Key ideas will be reiterated. Some written assignments but graded lightly. Midterm and final you choose what questions to answer out of a batch of options. Final project was creative, make something that represents a myth.

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CLASS40 . Dunn F M 10 Months Ago

Dunn was a great professor. Lectures were interesting and fun. Things to keep in mind: final is worth 45% of total grade, some TAs were great, others not so much, has a lot of reading. I had a great TA and did the work so the tests were pretty easy. To get a good grade, you have to do the work but otherwise the class wasn't very hard or stressful.

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CLAS40 . Dunn F M 10 Months Ago

This professor is amazing. Lectures are always fun to listen to. Very sad peers don't respect his short time in lectures but he handles disruptions respectfully. Attendance isn't mandatory (only in sections for quizzes). Tests are very simple if you simply pay attention to the lectures. Readings themselves are very interesting.

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CLAS40 . Dunn F M 11 Months Ago

This class is interesting & the professor can be a good lecturer. My biggest complaint is the TAs. If your TA is nice, it will be an easy A. If your TA is not nice, this class will be hell on earth. Professor does little to standardize the TA grading so you're screwed if your TA sucks. Since the sections are not fair, I don't recommend this class.

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CLAS40 . Dunn F M 11 Months Ago

Most work I've ever done for a GE. TAs are not standardized at all, they all make their own quizzes and grade differently making it unfair.

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CLAS40 . Dunn F M 11 Months Ago

Worst professor I've had in UCSB. Lectures are COMPLETELY useless. Don't even bother going to lecture cuz lecture is just his yapping session for 50 minutes. He will go on tangent for over half of the class. Half of his lecture slides are literally random pictures of Greek Myth.

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