On Tuesday, March 21st, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Classics, Associate Professor Sara Johnson met with certified ECE Classics Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Associate Professor Roger Travis spoke with the group about UConn’s CAMS 1103 course and discussed the process for certification to teach the course in a partner high school. Teachers must audit Prof. Travis’ course and work with him to develop a version of the syllabus that works in the high school classroom.

After a short break, the group discussed “Circe” by Madeline Miller.

UConn Classics courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Thursday, April 7^th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Classics, Prof. Sara Johnson, met with certified ECE Classics Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

The group shared how they are teaching the courses during during pandemic times. All participants received a copy of "Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths" Kindle Edition by Helen Morales which was discussed for the reminder of the meeting.

UConn Classics courses offered through ECE.

On Tuesday, May 5^th UConn Early College Experience and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Classics, Sara Johnson (Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies) met with certified Classics Instructors for their annual professional development workshop.

Instructors received an electronic copy of "Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter" by Erich S. Gruen.

The group divided up the text to provide brief summaries of each chapter and share questions and their thoughts.  Chapter topics are listed below:

• Were Barbarians Barbaric?
• Herodotus and Greekness
• The Racial Judgments of Polybius
• Rome’s Multiple Identities and Tangled Perspectives
• Constructed Ethnicities in Republican Italy
• The Chosen People and Mixed Marriages
• Did Hellenistic Jews Consider Themselves a Race or a Religion?
• Philo and Jewish Ethnicity
• The Ethnic Vocabulary of Josephus
• The Racial Reflections of Paul
• Christians as a “Third Race”

UConn Classics courses offered through Early College Experience.