Analecta Technica (known to the catalogue as “Junior Skills Portfolio,” Classics 295)

The Analecta Technica is a portfolio that will normally be completed by the end of the junior year. The purpose of requiring the portfolio is to ensure that students are prepared for the work they will be doing for their senior projects (seminar and colloquium).

The overall goal of the Analecta Technica is to demonstrate that students are ready to analyze and interpret elements (e.g. texts, artifacts, institutions, etc.) of the ancient Greco-Roman world within their various contexts (e.g. political, social, linguistic, etc.) through the use of primary sources as evidence and secondary sources to situate their work in the context of the discipline. To achieve this goal, students will need to be able to locate, utilize, and cite the sources indicated above.

Items in the portfolio must document the following skills:

1. Locating (with the searching tools described below) and citing (in the format specified by the departmental style sheet) primary sources.
2. Locating (with the searching tools described below) and citing (in the format specified by the departmental style sheet) secondary sources.
3. Using primary sources as evidence.
4. Using secondary sources to situate work in the context of the discipline

Thus the portfolio should include:
a) the check-off sheet showing courses taken that require use of specified tools and skills
b) assignments that document use of the remaining required tools not encountered in courses taken thus far. For exercises click here.
c) papers or other assignments documenting skills 3 and 4
d) a brief bibliography (as an Endnote Library) for any general topic you would like to propose for next year’s Symposium Topic: this should include both books and articles, and ideally both primary and secondary sources (and the topic should be applicable to both Greek and Roman material)
e) a brief reflective essay (1-2 pages) addressing the large goal. This essay should explain how the items you have chosen to include demonstrate the required skills and tools, where in our departmental curriculum you had opportunities to practice them, and which ones you feel you may need more practice with.