| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | May 2000 |
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Meet our Undergraduate Scholarship Award Winners
Graduate Students Prepare for Commencement
Students and Faculty Enjoy Winter Retreat
UCB Classics Opens a "Washington Branch"
Classics Department Reaches Out to Community and State
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Classics Department Reaches Out to Community and State
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of the Department's long-term goals is to maintain and improve the quality
of our outreach to communities and educational institutions around the
state. In the past year we have done much to maintain and enhance our
profile as an academic entity intimately involved "the real world".
Thanks to an outreach grant won by Rose Chang for ALTEC (the Anderson Language Technology Center), the Department was able to arrange to send two graduate students, Sonia Isaacs and David Warburton, along with representatives from many other units and foreign language departments, to the town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County. David reports a very positive experience introducing Roman culture and the Latin language to three separate social studies classes at the middle school.
Brad Churchill, as President of the Colorado Classics Association, whose membership consists primarily of educators across the state, helped host two workshops this year. In August Colorado teachers, including Carol Murphy (MA 1987), gave presentations on their individual areas of expertise. Carol demonstrated how she uses Latin manuscripts as a pedagogical tool. In February Tatiana Summers, visiting from the University of Alabama, took CCA members on an on-line tour of ancient Rome, introduced them to the educational resources available on via the VRoma website and helped them learn how to begin using it in their own classes as a pedagogical tool. In addition, Barbara Hill serves as the editor of The Colorado Classicist, the newsletter of the Colorado Classics Association.
Among other outreach activities this year were Ariana Trail's talk to Professor Marianne Wesson's "Women in Law and Literature" class in UCB's law school. Prof. Traill spoke about Attic law in the comedies of Menander. In April Prof. Traill and Prof. Churchill serves as judges for the Boulder County Spelling Bee.
