Departmental Learning Goals
| Correspondence to
Undergraduate Learning Aims
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| 1. Be able to read Greek and/or Latin with good comprehension of content, style and nuance | Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
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| 2. Have a clear appreciation of the power of language and of aesthetic issues relating to language | Eloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
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| 3. Be able to think critically and write persuasively | Critical Understanding
Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
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| 4. Know and understand the origins of key concepts and institutions in western thought | Intellectual Excellence
Promotion of Justice
Faith and Mission
Diversity
Wellness (Eudaimonia)
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| 5. Have an appreciation of the multicultural nature of classical antiquity as a means to better understand our comparably multicultural world | Critical Understanding
Diversity
Intellectual Excellence |
| 6. Acquire facility in interdisciplinary thinking and develop an ability to think outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines | Intellectual Excellence |
| 7. Read with attention to content, style and nuance Intermediate texts in Greek | Eloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
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| 8. Read and discuss select passages of either Vergil’s epic Aeneid Homer’s Iliad and/or Odyssey in the original with attention to content, style, and literary technique | Eloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
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| 9. Display both in oral translation and discussion in class as well as in written assignments facility with the works and historiacal context of at least two different Latin or Greek authors or literary genres | Critical Understanding
Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
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| 10. Display an understanding of at least four different topic areas in classical antiquity (e.g. “The Multicultural Roman Empire” or “Classical Mythology”) through classroom performance and critical essays | Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
Critical Understanding
Aesthetics
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