Program Educational Goals
A. Linguistic Proficiency / Communication Skills: Students will function in ancient Greek/Latin with an emphasis on reading skills.
· Students will understand paragraph-length ancient Greek or Latin texts from familiar authors with minimal aid.
· Students will identify, analyze, and explain all grammatical and stylistic forms they have encountered (e.g. parsing and poetic meter [scansion]).
· Students will understand the main idea of an unfamiliar text on a new theme with moderate vocabulary and grammar assistance, including glosses and/or dictionary aid.
B. Cultural Understanding / International Experience: Students will demonstrate the ability to place themselves within Greek/Roman culture as far as possible and will reflect actively about their experiences.
· Students will identify common practices and worldviews of Greek/Roman cultures when encountered in primary source material.
· Students will demonstrate an awareness of Greek/Roman history as it relates to familiar texts.
· Students will compare and contrast Greek/Roman cultural practices with those of the modern world.
C. Appreciation of World Literatures: Students will analyze and interpret literature, broadly construed, in the target languages of Ancient Greek and Latin and in translations.
· Students will contextualize Greek/Latin literature within world traditions and identify influences of these ancient works upon later creative arts.
· Students will analyze critically longer works of Greek and Latin literature in translation by drawing upon knowledge of relevant literary, ideological, and aesthetic movements.
· Students will access and use research resources appropriate for studying the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.