Senior Colloquium

In a field as broad as Classics, occasions for synopsis and synthesis are especially important. Each year, senior majors participate with the Classics faculty in a series of discussions about important works and issues in the field of Classics. Junior majors are invited to participate as well.

The Senior Colloquium meets approximately every other week during the fall and spring semesters, and the topics are quite varied. Seniors writing an honors thesis routinely present their work-in-progress to their peers and the faculty, while at other meetings we discuss talks by visiting speakers or upcoming productions of classical drama by the Theatre Department. Sometimes the students suggest a topic. This past fall students decided to learn the conventions of Roman forensic oratory and took turns declaiming passages of Cicero’s Pro Caelio, to the delight of all assembled.

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