Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the department’s undergraduate program. The department expects undergraduate majors in the program to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes.

• Improved critical thinking skills

• Improvement in close reading skills

• Improvement in analytical writing skills

• Skills in active listening and productive intellectual discussion in class

• Ability to develop compelling and nuanced lines of interpretation

• Facility with the methodologies and presuppositions underlying interpretive positions in secondary literature and their work.

• Breadth and depth of knowledge about the ancient Mediterranean world.

• Ability to work with different kinds of primary evidence (e.g., texts, inscriptions, artworks, archaeological evidence, and others) to understand ancient culture, history, ideas, and people’s lives.