Monthly Archives: September 2011
January Term in Greece
| September 28, 2011 | Posted by Allie under News |
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January 2012:
The Bronze Age: The Minoans and the Mycenaeans.
Together with the Sunoikisis consortium, the Center for Hellenic Studies will offer a travel study program in Greece during January. Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature at Harvard University, will lead the trip, which focuses on Bronze Age societies, specifically the Minoans and the Mycenaeans. If you have any questions regarding the program, please contact us via Contact Form.
Estimated Rates:
The cost will be approximately $2800.00.
The rate is subject to change upon increase/decrease of the EUR to the USD prior to time of final payment.
An initial deposit of $500.00 is due upon acceptance.
The remainder of the cost will be due December 15, 2011.
*Rate does not include airfare to/from US and Greece.
Click here for a PDF of an estimated trip budget.
Application:
The Center for Hellenic Studies will accept applications on a rolling basis. Enrollment will be limited to 35 participants.
The application will call for a PDF of your transcript and contact information for 2 references. The Center will contact your references and have them fill out an online questionnaire.
Contact:
For more information regarding the January Term trip, please contact us via Contact Form.
Preliminary Itinerary, January 9-21, 2012:
Jan. 9: Flight from Athens to Crete.
Students will meet in Athens for a flight to Crete on January 9.
Jan. 9-13: Crete.
While in Crete, students will visit the ancient Minoan palaces, including Knossos and Phaistos. Students will also visit the spectacular beach a Matala, famous for its man-made caves.
Jan. 14-15: Nafplion, Mycenae, Tiryns
On Friday, January 13, the group will journey via overnight ferry to Nafplion where the medieval structure of Palamidi Fortress still looms high over the city. From 1829-1834, Nafplion was the first capital of Greece after it gained independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Students will visit the Mycenean sites in the Argolid including Mycenae, Midea, and Tiryns and the network of roads that connect these settlements. On the evening of the 15th, there will be a dinner with folk dancing.
Jan. 16-17: Sparta, Pylos.
On January 16, students will retrace Telemachos’ journey as described in the Odyssey. We will visit the sites of Sparta, Pylos, and Mystra. On January 17, we will return to Nafplion.
Jan. 18: Nemea, Corinth.
On January 18, students will journey back to Athens. Along the way, we will make stops at the sites of Nemea, the site of one of the major Pan-Hellenic festivals, and Corinth.
Jan. 19-20: Athens.
On January 19, we will visit the Agora, where Socrates engaged Athenians in philosophical conversation, and the Agora Museum. In the afternoon, we will visit the National Archaeological Museum. On Friday, we will visit the New Acropolis Museum and the Acropolis, where the Parthenon stands.
Jan. 21: Departure.
J-term Flyer PDF
Maymester in Greece
| September 28, 2011 | Posted by Allie under News |
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Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
Together with the Sunoikisis Consortium, the Center for Hellenic Studies is offering the opportunity to participate in a rigorous travel-study program during the months of May and June. Through visits to archaeological sites and museums and through analysis of material culture, students will learn about the Ancient Greek world from the Neolithic Age to the Roman Empire. Professors Jeannine Uzzi (University of Southern Maine) and David Carlisle (Washington & Lee University) will lead the trip.
When: May 22-June 12, 2012. Participants will meet in Athens for a flight to Santorini on May 22.
Estimated Rate:
$4050.00 Program Fee
The rate are subject to change upon increase/decrease of the EUR to the USD prior to time of final payment.
An initial deposit of $500.00 is due February 20, 2011.
The remainder of the cost will be due March 20, 2011.
*Rates do not include airfare to/from US and Greece.
Click here for a PDF of the estimated trip budget.
Application:
The Center for Hellenic Studies will accept applications on a rolling basis and undergraduate students will have priority, but all are welcome to apply. Enrollment will be limited to 35 participants.
The application will call for a PDF of your transcript or your CV and contact information for 2 references. The Center will contact your references and have them fill out an online questionnaire.
Click here to go to the online application!
Additional Information
Travelers will make their own flight arrangements to and from Athens, Greece. The group will meet on Tuesday, May 22 at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airtport for the flight to Santorini.
Arrangements Include:
- Accommodations in first class hotels with private bathrooms and air-conditioning
- Daily breakfast buffet
- Sixteen (16) group dinners
- Transportation within the country
- Transportation to and from the airport.
*Unless otherwise noted, rates are based on double-room accommodations. For an additional fee, single-room accommodations are available. Please let us know via e-mail if you would like a single supplement after you apply.
If you have questions, please contact us via Contact form.
Preliminary Itinerary:
May 22: Arrival.
Participants will meet at the Athens airport for a flight to Santorini.
May 22-24: Santorini.
Participants will meet at the Athens airport for a flight to Santorini on May 22. The island is famous for its volcanic eruption in 1625 BCE . We will visit the ancient site of Thira, the Prehistoric Museum, and Akrotiri.
Phaistos, Crete
May 25-27: Crete.
On May 22, we will travel to the island of Crete. While in Crete, students will visit ancient Minoan administrative centers, including Knossos and Phaistos.
May 28-31: Nafplion and the Argolid
On Sunday, May 27, the group will journey via overnight ferry to Piraeus and then take a bus to Nafplion, the first capital of Greece after it gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. On the way, the group will stop at the Mycenaean site, Tiryns, and the early Bronze Age site, Lerna.
From Nafplion, we will travel to Mycenae, a powerful Bronze Age center, and the ancient city ofCorinth. We will also visit Nemea, the site of one of the major Pan-Hellenic festivals.
Pylos at sunrise
June 1-2: Mystras, Sparta, Pylos.
On June 1, participants will retrace Telemachos’ journey as described in the Odyssey from Sparta to Pylos.
June 2-3: Olympia.
Next on our journey is Olympia, the site of the first Olympic games. We will also visit the Archaeological Museum.
June 4: Arachova, Delphi.
On Monday, June 4, we will journey towards central Greece. We will cross the Corinthian Gulf and continue through the town of Nafpaktos. From there we will go to Delphi, the home of the oracle to Apollo nestled on the side of Mt. Parnassus.
June 5-8: Athens.
Thursday, June 7, we will depart for Athens. We will visit the Agora, where Socrates engaged Athenians in philosophical conversation, and the Agora Museum. We will also visit the National Archaeological Museum, and the Acropolis.
Temple of Poseidon, Sunion
June 9-10: Marathon, Sunion, Eleusis.
Marathon, Sounion, and Eleusis are all short day trips from Athens. At Sunion, we will visit the picturesque temple of Poseidon. Eleusis is the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries based on the legend of Demeter and Persephone.
June 11: Athens. Students will have a free day in Athens.
June 12: Departures.
Elementary Greek Sequence Planning
| September 21, 2011 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under News |
On Saturday, October 1, faculty from the Sunoikisis consortium will meet to plan an inter-institutional elementary Greek sequence. Meeting participants include: David Carlisle (Washington & Lee), Megan Drinkwater (Agnes Scott), Ryan Fowler (Knox), Hal Haskell (Southwestern), John Henkel (Georgetown), Stephen Maiullo (Hope), Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo), Kristina Meinking (Elon), Scott Rubarth (Rollins), Norman Sandridge (Howard), Jeannine Uzzi (Southern Maine), and Heather Vincent (Eckherd). The meeting begins at 9:00am and a live webcast will be available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with Quicktime or Real Player.
During the summer, the faculty discussed some preliminary ideas for an online elementary Greek language course. Notes from the previous meeting below also identify topics for the discussion at the October 1 meeting.
Notes from Preliminary Summer Meeting
Course Technology
We discussed possibilities for the exploration of different schedules and ways of taking advantage of information technologies. For example, without abandoning the idea of having all the students meeting via videoconferencing on a regular basis, we might try engaging them at various times and in different ways to motivate more frequent engagement with the language. Ideas include:
1. Sending periodic text messages or emails in the target language and having the students reply also in the target language
2. Using podcasts to which the students could listen and respond by answering questions
3. Sending short scripts, questions, or topics to students and have them work in pairs to record and upload short dialogues for review
Format of Assignments
Due to potential problems associated with having students produce the language primarily through typing, we thought about having students write assignments by hand, scan them (or take a picture), and then submit them for review. On this point, we will explore the possibility of using a smartboard during the synchronous sessions.
Process for Reviewing and Correcting Student Work
We discussed an evaluation system that would simply indicate where students need to review and revise their work rather than adding the corrections ourselves. We noted, too, that we could have students engage in more spoken exercises. Finally, we talked about the possibility of hiring a graduate student to work with the students and help develop the materials.
Course Design
Since we know fairly precisely what the students well encounter as they emerge from the sequence and begin participating in the advanced Sunoikisis courses, we can work backwards and engineer the three courses to prepare them to handle specific types of texts. In other words, most language curricula have to be general in their approach because curricular designers have to prepare students for a wide variety of texts in intermediate and advanced courses. Although we, too, want to develop the students’ ability to handle a range of materials, we can also be more focused in our approach and work toward a higher level of fluency for certain domains.
Course Sequence
We discussed the idea of some sort of “bridge” course, perhaps during the spring semester or summer, for students who finish the elementary sequence in the fall and who would have to wait until the following year to take one of the advanced Sunoikisis courses.
Comments on these plans are welcome.
Course Lecture Recordings Online
| September 16, 2011 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Podcasts |
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Recordings of the weekly lectures for the current Sunoiksis courses are now available online! Every week, we will post a new lecture video on the Greek Course Podcast and Latin Course Podcast pages. Recent videos include:
Greek Hellenistic Literature
Week 1: Kenny Morrell, Course Introduction
Latin Literature from the Roman Empire, 70-180 CE
Week 1: Molly Pasco-Pranger, “Memory and Forgetting”
Week 2: Elizabeth Manwell, “Assassination and Civil War”
