De Senectute: Cicero's Advice on Saving Classics Departments

IF 0.2 3区历史学 0 CLASSICS

CLASSICAL WORLD Pub Date : 2021-11-24 DOI:10.1353/clw.2021.0024

J. Moss

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:Classics, along with other subjects in the Humanities, is under threat in American universities because of declining enrollments. Some of the drop can be blamed on the current emphasis on STEM as students' best option to secure their future. There is generally, though, a major demographic shift: there are simply few college-age (18-25) students than there once were. This article uses ideas captured from Cicero's de Senectute to suggest that college humanities departments create programs for retirees and senior citizens that could leverage the much larger numbers of this demographic group to bolster enrollments while enriching all students' learning experience.

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西塞罗关于拯救古典系的建议

摘要：由于入学人数的下降，古典文学和人文学科的其他学科在美国大学受到了威胁。下降的部分原因可以归咎于目前强调STEM是学生确保未来的最佳选择。不过，总体而言，人口结构发生了重大变化：大学年龄（18-25岁）的学生比以前少了。这篇文章使用了Cicero的《衰老》中的观点，建议大学人文系为退休人员和老年人创建项目，利用这一人口群体中更多的人来提高入学率，同时丰富所有学生的学习体验。

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CLASSICAL WORLD CLASSICS-

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期刊介绍： Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.