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June 9 - 12, 2008 ,
6:00 p.m. (M) - 9:00 p.m. (Th)
Reed College, Portland, OR
A seminar for Classics faculty from participating colleges who are interested in planning an inter-institutional collaborative course in Latin and participating in an intensive professional development and networking opportunity. (13 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008)
Classics faculties at small liberal arts colleges often lack the time or resources to develop new courses in areas outside their specialties. Technology can help by connecting faculty and students and enabling them to share expertise, time, and resources across campuses. The Sunoikisis Seminars provide opportunities for faculty to meet in one of two concurrent 3-day planning sessions to develop a new inter-campus course in either advanced Greek or Latin.
This seminar, Literature from the Early Republic (ICLAT 391), focuses on the earliest literary documents in the Latin language. Readings will come primarily from the comedies of Plautus and Terence but may include other examples of archaic Latin such as the fragments of Ennius' Annales.
Participants will meet for a plenary workshop on the fourth day to concentrate on the skills and technology that make virtual collaboration possible. The workshop will cover such technologies as wikis and other collaborative writing tools; Google applications; discussion lists and forums; synchronous communications (Skype, MIV, phone, chat); and social bookmarking and images. Care will be taken to introduce participants to technologies that their campuses can support. For this workshop, seminar participants should be joined by colleagues from their campuses’ academic support staffs (IT, library). Colleagues from the Greek seminar will also participate in this workshop.
Participants in the Sunoikisis Seminars will leave with a curriculum for a fall 2008 inter-campus course (ICC), connections to a community of classics faculty at small liberal arts colleges, and the expertise to maintain and develop that virtual community.
Interested faculty and staff from participating colleges: To apply to participate in this seminar, please contact your campus liaison. Your campus liaison will select your campus's nominees and send their names to NITLE. Nominees will receive further information from NITLE about the application process.
For more information about this seminar, please contact Rebecca Davis.
For logistical questions, please contact Terri Coahran.
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