Skidmore College Department of Classics

200-LEVEL GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION COURSES
Students will demonstrate the following skills:

• acquisition of basic research methodology including
        use of primary sources
        use of secondary sources
        use of web-based and library-based materials
  
• analytical skills in the close reading of literary and other documentary texts
  
• ability to conduct a comparison among one of the following and draw some original conclusions
       literary texts/genres/issues
       archaeological objects/sites
       historical events
  
• ability to write a literary, historical, art historical or archaeological analysis supported by primary and secondary sources, resulting in some original thinking
  
• writing skills that result in
       a clear thesis
       a developed argument
       a coherent conclusion
       an essay or research paper free from mechanical errors

300-LEVEL GREEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION COURSES
Building upon the skills acquired in 200-level courses, students will demonstrate the following skills:

• ability to read and analyze primary evidence (in translation) in depth
  
• ability to read and analyze scholarship critically
• ability to conduct a work of original independent research, for which the student selects his/her own topic and draws upon the body of primary and secondary materials (the latter including both journal articles and books), analyzes this scholarship and produces both
       a major writing project as a result of this research
       oral reports as an outgrowth of this research
  
• ability to assess and present scholarship of a more theoretical nature, and apply theoretical constructs to the primary source