Classics

NEW PROJECTS

Here are the new projects which the Classics Subject Centre (CSC) is supporting (either through Classics Small Grants or HCA Teaching Development Grants). More information about the individual projects can be found by clicking on the title. Upon completion of the project resources will be made available through the CSC website under ‘Resources’.

British Epigraphy Society III Practical Epigraphy Workshop 

( page / document )

Newcastle 22^nd – 24^th June 2010

Contact: Dr Peter Haarer (British Epigraphy Society)

(Supported by a Classics Small Grant)

Peer Assisted Learning in Classics and Ancient History 

( page / document )

Contact: Dr Genevieve Liveley at the University of Bristol

(Supported by a Classics Small Grant)

ONGOING PROJECTS

Below are some ongoing projects which the Classics Subject Centre (CSC) is supporting, listed by type of support given. As above, upon completion of the project resources will be made available through the CSC website under ‘Resources’.

Teaching Development Grants (TDGs) - Funded by HCA, Mentored by CSC

• Empowering the Curriculum: communicative competence and the role of grammar - Martin Dinter (KCL)
• Latin Lives On - Lin Foxhall (Leicester)
• Half TDGs - funded half by CSC and half by HCA, mentored by CSC
• Texts Transformed - Susannah Phillippo (Newcastle) and Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
• Garbing the Past - Clemence Schultze (Durham)

e-Resource Creation

Latin in Action (JISC DeL II) - funded by HCA via JISC, mentored by CSC - Eleanor OKell (Durham), Tim Hill (Cambridge), Susannah Phillippo (Newcastle), Cressida Ryan (Nottingham)
A (usable and) reusable, editable shell into which to put text-based exercises - it has windows for questions, vocabulary and comparative translations. Showcasing Susannah Phillippo's ‘Latin in Action' TDG work, it will also take Greek and be reused for presenting material from Texts Transformed.

eMI (evaluating Multiple Interpretations) - funded by the HEA ‘Collaboration between SCs and CETLs' programme (£5,000 secured by ERO, funds administered by HCA) - Eleanor OKell (Durham), Cary MacMahon (Glasgow), Dawn Leeder (RLO-CETL and CARET, Cambridge)
This Generative Learning Object (GLO) will be fully editable and models the processes of Humanities teaching (particularly the seminar and reference to three developmental stages: information acquisition, thesis generation and testing - including formative assessment, and final submission) within an on-line environment in order to assist students to evaluate and locate themselves within scholarly debate. The prototype will focus on disciplinary difference but the framework can be used to present as many as six different commentaries on a single passage of text.

Small Grants - Funded by CSC

• Gender and the Classics - Sue Blundell (Open) Investigation of Gender as modules and in modules taught across the UK: to what extent is it mainstreamed?  
• The Thompson Novels Catalogue - Chris Shepperd (Brotherton Library, Leeds) A catalogue of the novels collection will be made available on-line through Leeds' library catalogue. A separate searchable list made available for the HCA website with accompanying list of novels known to exist which Thompson desired to have in the collection.
   
• Beginners Fast-track Mediaeval Latin in a VLE - Catherine Steel (Glasgow) The report will examine the correlation between the kind of support materials teachers consider necessary and those which are most useful to students at different stages of the course and for different purposes/learning patterns. It considers the challenges of producing/presenting these materials and strategies to encourage and maintain student interest/use. 
• Supporting the Presentation of Student Research as a Website - Rosemary Barrow (Roehampton) An excellent presentation was set up by students from the associated course at the 2007 CA poster session, clearly demonstrating the advantages of providing additional skills for presenting and ways to present research. Materials will include an instruction book for website creation within WebCT.
  
  
• A Byzantine Greek Teaching Anthology - Fiona Haarer (KCL) Creation of an anthology of texts for the teaching of Byzantine Greek, which will be made available in hardcopy and by downloadable pdf from this website.
  
  
• A Neo-Latin Teaching Anthology - Sarah Knight (Leicester) This included the organisation of a collaborative workshop (a Neo-Latin Teaching Network event) in November 2007, after which materials are being refined and will be made into an expandable on-line accessible resource. Further contributions of texts will be welcomed.