Good practice – learning and teaching: two-handed lectures
School of Classics
In two of the four Classical Studies Subhonours modules (CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture and CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome) we have trialled lectures delivered jointly by two members of staff.
In these, one literary and one art-historical specialist discuss the same topic from their disciplinary perspectives. The purpose is (1) to demonstrate to students different approaches to the same theme/materials (2) to create links between the different lecture blocks of the module and make it more coherent and (3) to show students academics in dialogue in an accessible manner. The feedback has been positive; we have also trialled one lecture in which two literary scholars used their different texts (Virgil and Livy) to explore the same theme, the figure of the emperor Augustus.
For further details contact: Dr Alexia Petsali-Diomidis at [email protected].