Undergraduate Advising as a full team. Please welcome Anna Pendleton and Veronica Munoz! Make an appointment from the below link for any advising needs:
Rex Stem, our colleague and beloved friend, died on Wednesday October 21, 2020 at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento of complications from colon cancer. He was fifty-one years old. Rex is survived by his wife Melissa, son Henry, and daughter Nathalie, by his father and brother, and by his many friends.
The Classics Program is delighted to announce the appointment of Kathleen Cruz as Assistant Professor of Classics.
Professor Cruz arrives at UCD from Princeton University, where she completed her PhD thesis entitled "The Poetics of Horror in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Statius' Thebaid." It may be some time before students can meet Professor Cruz in person, so in the meantime we offer a brief Q&A by way of virtual introduction:
After nearly nine and a half years as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of UCD, Ralph Hexter stepped down from his administrative posts this June (you can learn about his many accomplishments here and here) and rejoined the Classics Program (and Department of Comparative Literature) as an active faculty member.
These days, it appears that nobody is immune to Marie Kondo fever. But while the “KonMari” method is having a contemporary cultural moment, it is not entirely new. Readers of ancient Greek philosophy may already have encountered aspects of it in the work of Xenophon, an Athenian soldier turned philosopher who was a student of Socrates.
The Carmina Burana is the largest and most famous anthology of Medieval Latin poetry. Read the article to learn more about Professor Traill's publication!
In 2013, Google decided to test its hiring hypothesis by crunching every bit and byte of hiring, firing, and promotion data accumulated since the company’s incorporation in 1998. Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last.
Academic Advisor Amy Lowrey debunks three common misconceptions about majoring and taking courses in the humanities, explaining why it is worthwhile for all students.
I spent the Fall Semester of 2016 studying at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, although it is much easier to just call it “The Centro”. The Centro is a hideous building hidden away on the Via Alessandro Algardi in the Monteverde district of Rome. The inside of it isn’t much prettier. In the basement is the kitchen and dining room, while the first floor holds the library, professors’ office, and a classroom. The second and third floors are made up of bedrooms, akin to dorm rooms. The fourth has the exercise equipment, a lounge, and another classroom.
