Visiting Faculty Program in Classics
Abstract:
Each year, one faculty member from one of the five colleges will visit the other four campuses for a week's visit in each case. While on the visited campus, the faculty member will teach, either as a guest in classes in operation and/or by offering a brief seminar. The member will give a public talk, formally or informally, and will interact with student and faculty through shared meals as well. The visitor should come away with a fairly clear understanding of the Classics program of the visited campus; the visited campus will come to know the visitor's intellectual interests both in teaching and research.
Goals: that the Classics programs of the five colleges know each others' work and interests, both in research and teaching, more clearly. To encourage joint programming, perhaps even, eventually, joint course offerings among the five Classics programs, perhaps at upper levels of Greek and/or Latin, or perhaps at other points in the curriculum. Such joint programming could best be built on the basis of shared information that a common annual visitor would afford.
A web site of substantial content supports the visitor program. The purposes of the web site are:
To show students, faculty, prospectives, and others interested the course offerings, research projects, special events such as speakers and workshops, and intellectual and social life, of the five departments/programs in Classics/Classical Studies at Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, and Wooster. To keep information up to date, and share information regularly, through a Webmaster charged not only with regularly updating the web site, but also with regular e-mail communication among the five programs (through the e-mail list, oh5classics@denison.edu). To encourage joint programming, perhaps even, eventually, joint course offerings among the five Classics programs, perhaps at upper levels of Greek and/or Latin, or perhaps at other points in the curriculum. Such joint programming could best be built on the basis of shared information that a common web site would afford.