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Saturday, June 01, 2002
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/cases/christesen.html Presenting Visual Data to Online Students Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College Professor of classics Paul Christesen got involved with the Web while addressing larger issues in classical studies. The classics department at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, has been rethinking its approach. "We're concerned about building a curriculum that blurs the distinction between different kinds of data. One problem that has always been an issue for classical scholars is that people tend to specialize in one particular body of information: historians are text-driven, archaeologists specialize in artifacts, literature people read a specialized subcategory of text. And there has been a general sense that we could all use the other bodies of information quite handily and that this would be better for the students because it would assemble a more complete and, I think, more entertaining picture for them. So we've been trying to encourage students to be more broadly defined in their field of information." To this end the classics department introduced Theories and Methods in Ancient History. Designed for midrange classical studies, this course exposes students to the various bodies of evidence people studying the classical world use, along with the relevant methodologies for interpreting them....
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