Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 7, 2024

The faculty of the UF Classics Department represent a wide variety of research interests, including Greek and Latin language and literature, digital humanities, reception studies, ancient law and democracy, Greek and Roman drama, Greek and Roman history, and archaeology. Papers may but do not have to address one of these specialty areas.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

Anthropology 70

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. By empowering our students to think historically, they can redefine the political sphere.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. beyond human ) and transformed its methodology, and that anthropologists were trained to open their body-mind during ethnographic work.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.” But even keeping in touch virtually brings me happiness.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If selected, fellows will give a public lecture on their work, participate in a workshop on their project, participate in a seminar with graduate students relating to their work, and record an episode for the Future of the Past Podcast. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

If selected, fellows will give a public lecture on their work, participate in a workshop on their project, and run a seminar with graduate students relating to their work. Depending on the fellow’s wishes and interests, other events may be scheduled as well.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. The Small Republic of the Civics Classroom Peters’ and Wreggleworth’s experience in the MAHG program convinced them that carefully facilitated seminar discussions give students practice in such dialogue.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. “It’s 27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. .”

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. science of learning centers funded by the National Science Foundation that did a lot of work on just very basic questions of, ‘How do humans learn?,’ ‘How do animals learn?’

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ninety-minute weekly seminars are a cornerstone of the model. as well as a LEAP leader who facilitates seminars and coaches teachers through regular classroom observations, said that’s a far cry from what used to be the norm. Leave this field empty if you're human: D.C. No cookie-cutter seminars for entire teaching staffs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

“Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. She will be a minority wherever she goes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The figure for students in humanities and natural sciences is even higher, up to 50 percent. Lukas Graf, head of the Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training described the “basic principle” of Germany’s program as providing all-around training: “in the classroom, in the seminar room, and training in the workplace.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Leave this field empty if you're human: “Teachers said, ‘If this is good for kids, why not bring it to all of them?’ ” said Steiner.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. Seminar discussions on Zoom, Teams or Google Hangouts can be lively, lectures can be understood, and breakout sessions and team projects can be completed. The problem wasn’t just the platform, it was my own limitations as a creative teacher.

Education 117

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 18, 2022

We primary and elementary instructors would take turns presenting on key theory topics (like the absorbent mind, planes of development, human tendencies). As the school year went by, we decided which of the more advanced lessons to offer in the several weekend seminars based on what the teachers-in-residence were seeing in their classrooms.

Education 52

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You can apply to volunteer using the following link: Volunteer at the Annual Meeting Update 10/4/2023: To view the Program Outline for the 2024 Annual Meeting, please visit the following page: Program Outline This is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. When I entered the classroom as an adult, I promised myself that everything I accomplished, everything I did with and for my students, would center on introducing them to an appreciation for their own blackness.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The psychology of human memory can help us to answer this question. The spacing effect is a well-documented effect in human memory. Some practical suggestions What can we do to build in more effective consolidation in lectures and seminars? The thing is – how much will your learners remember in a few weeks time?

Psychology 52

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Demonstrations of competency : Support portfolios , which are tangible exemplars of work ( mostly written or spoken ) such as exploratory essays, infographics and recorded clips from a Socratic seminar or podcast. graduate of Fairfield University, I advocate for a resurgence of the endangered humanities. We must show, not tell.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. Students read poems in research seminars, discuss the poems and attempt to connect them to their research.

Teaching 53

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Seminar The Program Committee has accepted a proposal for a seminar entitled Ancient Literacy Reprised. Attendance is limited for this session, and participants are asked to read seminar papers in advance. Read details here. Registration To register for the 2015 Joint Annual Meeting, please click here.

Humanities 52

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I can’t just meet people by chance who have common interests … and get that human-to-human feedback that I crave so much because I’m an extrovert,” Chen said. One of her professors teaching a small seminar class recently invited everyone out for socially distanced pizza at a popular joint in Harvard Square.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The way I experience the world now can be overwhelming, but I am forever grateful that I no longer live in a space where I am afraid to have opinions or to express them. The seminar-style discussions have improved my relationships with my friends and peers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? For example, the one archeologist on staff across the five participating campuses developed an anthropology course , delivered as a hybrid seminar in the spring and followed by a summer field school where students excavated indigenous artifacts on Block Island, 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. Photo by Jennifer Dev. What happens when it [screen time] means talking with Grandma?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: HLLC admissions officers look beyond grades and SAT scores to students’ leadership qualities and their interest in the world around them. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Social Justice 93

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

High School 105

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

By the lunch break, a seminar-style discussion about SDG 6 — clean water and sanitation — was well underway. They talked about the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. Someone pulled up photos she had taken during a trip to Colombia of piles of waste she saw there. Coolidge students and educators participated at a DC + XQ design event.

High School 112

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed. The current environment breeds exclusion and deception, which is commonplace in these classes even if you’ve turned a blind eye.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

One way the school has tried to encourage students’ to keep their options open is by introducing college seminar-style classes like the Genocide Studies course, currently an honors-level elective. At a Habitat for Humanity house being built in a nearby town, students were supposed to be installing a bathroom lighting fixture.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective. Thomas, John Dollard, Erik Erikson, Abram Kardiner, Henry A. Murray and by a growing circle of anthropologists Ralph Linton, A.

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ED Surge

MAY 26, 2022

They navigate fantastical physical hazards—killer fairies, succubi, bugbears—hard human emotions—grief, fear, guilt—and classic high school drama. The seminar teaches students how to portray violence, sex and strong emotion with nuance and control, respecting the dignity and boundaries of audiences and fellow actors.

Humanities 99

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Everywhere we looked, we saw questions of values: The wisdom of environmental engineering toward human wants, the need for electrical power in a northern climate, the mutual desires of each country. These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. This process begins in our first-year programs.

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