Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. On March 5–6 the Department of the Classics was pleased to welcome Jeff Beneker, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as our visiting “distinguished teacher” and facilitator of a series of workshops and colloquia collectively dubbed the Distinguished Teaching Series. Our department…
Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. Her eloquent review shows how communicative language teaching is influencing ancient language pedagogy. Talking About Dead Tongues: A Review of When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin, edited by John Gruber-Miller (2006). American Philological Association Classical Resources Series 6. Oxford: Oxford UP. For…
A few weeks ago, an essay by Larry Summers in The New York Times outlined ways in which higher education will need to adapt to a changing world. Among many other observations, Summers notes that although it will be crucial for universities to foster their students’ cosmopolitanism, he is “not so sure” that mastering a…
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