| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | December 2001 |
Table of Contents
Active Undergraduates Spread Success Across Campus and Continents
Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes
Lively Lectures Abound This Year
Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education
Legio XIIII Invades CU's Campus
Alumni Secure Prestigious Positions
Friends of Classics at CU-Boulder
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Department of Classics
University of Colorado at Boulder
HUMN 340
248 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309
Active Undergraduates Spread Success Across Campus and Continents
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| Newly minted BA's Bleys Kueck and Amy Roberts pose with Chair Peter Knox at May's graduation ceremony. |
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| Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Noel Lenski congratulates new BA Sarah Koutavas. |
TCU's undergraduate program in Classics continues to thrive with an amazing 57 students registered as majors and 19 as minors. Undergraduate offerings this fall include a full four semesters of Latin and Greek, including our popular (and demanding) new survey of Latin literature taught by Professor Knox. We also have a full slate of lecture courses in literature, culture, history, art and archaeology. In the last category, Professor Dusinberre has been wowing huge audiences with a sweeping new survey of ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman archaeology entitled "Trash and Treasure, Temples and Tombs."
It was with equal measures of pride and wistfulness that we bid farewell to six undergradutae majors and one minor who graduated last spring: Andrew Bernard, who double majored in French, Sarah Koutavas, who double majored in English, Bleys Kueck, Stephanie Ladd, Amy Roberts and Classics minor Maura Williams. Stephanie, who couldn't make it to graduation, provoked only stifled sympathy given that she was in Rome at the time. Bleys, ever the language mavin, was heavily courted by Latin programs in the Chicago area. Maura has joined the German program at CU where she is pursuing an MA. Amy, still in Boulder, stops by occasionally but not often enough! All are welcome to return to their Alma Mater at any time. ProfessorLenski even promises a free cup of Starbucks coffee as an enticement to the wary.
Our students have not been daunted by the current state of foreign affairs from furthering their education abroad. Classics senior Suzanne Gardine travelled to Greece this past summer to participate in the College Year in Athens summer Program on Santorini. Currently David Darcy is enjoying the semester-long program at CYA, where the directors have taken extra precautions to ensure the safety of American students. So too, J.K. Melton, last year's recipient of the Ann Nichols "Herodotus" Travel Grant, is working hard while playing it safe in Rome at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies. During a recent research trip to Rome, Prof. Lenski took Mr. Melton out to dinner in Piazza S. Maria in Trastevere, where the single greatest threat came from the plate of octopus that Lenski insisted on ordering.
