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Celtic Languages and Literatures

CELT E-10a Introduction to Modern Irish (12478)
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Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University.
Workshop. 2 units. Noncredit and undergraduate credit $600, graduate credit $975. Limited enrollment.
Monday, Sept. 19, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 210. Fall term

This course gives students with little or no Irish a firm grounding in the language. Equal emphasis is placed on speaking, writing, and reading. In addition to grammar and teaching texts, we use songs, proverbs, poems, and folktales to foster understanding of Irish language and culture.
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CELT E-10b Introduction to Modern Irish (22286)
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Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, PhD, Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University.
Workshop. 2 units. Noncredit and undergraduate credit $600, graduate credit $975. Limited enrollment.
Monday, Jan. 30, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 107. Spring term

In CELT E-10b students continue to improve their understanding of Irish-language basics. We read and discuss more advanced selections of Irish prose, poetry, and some beautiful folktales from Donegal. A generous portion of class time is devoted to practicing conversational Irish in real-life situations. We learn more about Irish culture--food, folklore, holidays, and songs--through the Irish language.
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CELT E-137/W Poets and Poetry in the Celtic Literary Tradition (22398)
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Patrick K. Ford, PhD, Margaret Brooks Robinson Research Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $325, undergraduate credit $550, graduate credit $1,450.
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 208. Spring term

This course examines the role of poets in the development of the Celtic literary tradition from antiquity through the Middle Ages. The focus is on the social function of literature, especially in early Ireland and Wales, and the ways poets used their special powers in the maintenance of social and political order. Close attention is paid to the mythology of poetry, those narratives that tell how wisdom and poetry were first acquired and those that promulgate the magical powers of praise and satire.
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CELT E-148/W The Táin (12467)
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Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, MA, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive graduate seminar. 4 units. Graduate credit $1,575. Limited enrollment.
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 5:30-7:30 pm, Sever Hall, Room 204. Fall term

A study of the exuberant Irish epic The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge). Various approaches to the text are considered, and we look at associated sagas from the Ulster cycle.
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