Who’s Your Muse? Inspiration and Expression in the Ancient World

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze written texts to understand how they relate to particular audiences, purposes, and contexts as a way to inform one’s own writing and/or revision. (MAC Written Communication SLO1)
• Create and revise written texts for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts. (MAC Written Communication SLO2)
• Through oral or written reflection, demonstrate awareness of one’s writing choices as well as how one’s own writing contributes to ongoing conversations. (MAC Written Communication SLO3)
• Understand techniques and/or modes of expression used by authors of various ancient genres viewed in mythic terms through nine Muses of Greek myth. (SLO4)
• Explain how ancient peoples conceived the process and/or nature of inspiration and expression. (SLO5)

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Written reflections	20%
Writing assignments (five, each building on the last: tell a story with words, investigate a story 1: multiple stories, investigate a story 2: object and respond, multiple audiences, multiple genres)	40%
Midterm exam	20%
Final exam	20%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
Below 60	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance is correlated with written reflections (handed in on physical pieces of paper) and therefore affects the written reflection grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.