GREEK at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 17 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GREEK coursework.

• GREEK 5112Elementary Ancient Greek IIopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• GREEK 5121Intermediate Ancient Greek Iopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GREEK 1102Elementary Ancient Greek IIopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• GREEK 1142Elementary Modern Greek IIopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• GREEK 1105Homeric Greek IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• GREEK 1143Intermediate Modern Greek Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GREEK work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 17 GREEK and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 21 more GREEK courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GREEK. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at GREEK 5130

  1. GREEK 5111Elementary Ancient Greek I
  2. GREEK 5112Elementary Ancient Greek II
  3. GREEK 5121Intermediate Ancient Greek I
  4. GREEK 5123Homer
  5. GREEK 5130Seminar in Greek

• 4 courses deep, ending at GREEK 2103

  1. GREEK 1101Elementary Ancient Greek I
  2. GREEK 1102Elementary Ancient Greek II
  3. GREEK 2101Intermediate Ancient Greek I

• 4 courses deep, ending at GREEK 2144

  1. GREEK 1141Elementary Modern Greek I
  2. GREEK 1142Elementary Modern Greek II
  3. GREEK 1143Intermediate Modern Greek I

• 2 courses deep, ending at GREEK 1105

  1. GREEK 1104Beginning Homeric Greek
  2. GREEK 1105Homeric Greek II

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on GREEK sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Athena Kirk
• Charles Brittain
• Hayden Pelliccia
• Tad Brennan
• Todd Clary

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GREEK yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GREEK does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.