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Learning Aims
for Classics Majors

Departmental Learning Goals
Correspondence to
Undergraduate Learning Aims
1.  Be able to read Greek and/or Latin with good comprehension of content, style and nuanceEloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
2.  Have a clear appreciation of the power of language and of aesthetic issues relating to languageEloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
3.  Be able to think critically and write persuasivelyCritical Understanding
Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
4.  Know and understand the origins of key concepts and institutions in western thoughtIntellectual Excellence
Promotion of Justice
Faith and Mission
Diversity
Wellness (Eudaimonia)
5.  Have an appreciation of the multicultural nature of classical antiquity as a means to better understand our comparably multicultural worldCritical Understanding
Diversity
Intellectual Excellence
6.  Acquire facility in interdisciplinary thinking and develop an ability to think outside the boundaries of traditional disciplinesIntellectual Excellence
7.  Read and discuss select passages of Vergil’s epic Aeneid in the original with attention to content, style and literary techniqueEloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
8.  Read and discuss select passages of Homer’s epic Iliad and/or Odyssey in the original with attention to content, style and literary techniqueEloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
9.  Display both in oral translation and discussion in class as well as in written assignments facility with the works and historical context of at least six different Latin or Greek authors or literary genresCritical Understanding
Eloquentia Perfecta
Intellectual Excellence
Aesthetics
10.  Display facility in Latin prose compositionEloquentia Perfecta
Critical Understanding
Intellectual Excellence

       
    


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