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Teaching Classics in the digital era: pedagogical and logistical issues (March 30)
Monica Berti edited this page Mar 30, 2016
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March 30, 2016: 17h00-18h15 CET
Ryan Fowler (Franklin & Marshall College), Gwen Gruber (The University of Iowa), J. Matthew Harrington (Tufts University), and Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College and Harvard's CHS)
I. Classics within institutions of the liberal arts in the United States
- The nature of the college curriculum (i.e., the major accounts for a considerable but not exclusive part of an undergraduate’s program of study)
- The role that a classics program plays both for majors and minors and in support of other programs
- Small programs and their needs
II. The expanding “market" of the non-traditional student
- MOOCs and the Heroes course
III. Sunoikisis
- Support for language instruction
- Adding courses in translation: the Iliad course (adapting online paradigm to LACs)
IV. The CIC-CHS initiatives
- Enabling professors in other disciplines to use works from ancient Greece and Rome
- New focus on transforming the classroom and alignment with Sunoikisis
V. The Odyssey and Euripides courses
- Inter-institutional structure
- Digital infrastructure
- Successes and challenges (with maybe an example of the students’ work)
- Ideas about where to go from here
VI. Iterative Morphosyntax
- Treebanking Pedagogy as an application of the experimental Method from 1st semester to Graduate-level at Tufts University