College of Liberal Arts

Classics

1. All students will complete a curriculum that insures breadth in the form of a general education requirement in addition to major requirements. Standards for general education requirements are set by the College of Liberal Arts and enforced through a Senior Check system involving the student's advisor and the Dean's Office.
2. Almost 100% of all undergraduate upper division courses in Classics are taught by tenure-track faculty. The quality of the undergraduate teaching faculty is under the purview of the Departnent chair who sees that minimum qualifications for all faculty are met.
3. All students complete a minimum core course requirement before being allowed to proceed to upper division courses, in order to ensure proper preparation for advanced subject matter. A minimum grade of C will be obtained for all major courses and no course will be repeated more than once. Written assignments are required of students in every course.
4. Student teaching evaluations are administered in all courses enrolling five or more students. Results are available to individual faculty and are included by the Chair as part of the annual faculty review procedures. The current evaluation form was revised by the faculty in 1997.
5. All students are assigned a tenure track academic advisor who meets with the student at least once each semester to review the student's progress and future plans. Transcripts are examined by the advisor to evaluate students' level of study at the entrance to the program, to monitor progress in the course of the program, and to note their final performance level.
6. Academic office hours are required by both College and departmental regulations and are monitored by the Chair of the Department.

1. Course-embedded performance measures are designed primarily to assess the individual student's achievement.
2. Student course evaluations show that our courses are well received by students at all levels of instruction. Classics faculty are consistently rated "good" and "excellent" by their students. Student evaluations have been useful to the Department for such purposes as selection of appropriate instructional materials and considerations for reducing exam anxiety. .
3. At present we have no information about the degree completion ratio, average time to completion, percent of graduates employed in the field, and we have no mechanism for measuring alumni satisfaction with the program. Feedback from alumni about their level of satisfaction and their employment has always been positive, but it is sporadic and anecdotal in nature. Nonetheless, the Classics faculty have always made an effort to keep abreast of scholarly and pedagogical advances in their respective fields, and they have initiated improvements in the program whenever one was deemed necessary.