University of California. Program in Classics.

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1 University of California Program in Classics

2 2 Faculty Cynthia Claxton Denise Demetriou Anthony T. Edwards Zina Giannopoulou Denver Graninger Monte Johnson Dayna Kalleres Andromache Karanika Marianne McDonald Margaret M. Miles Jozef Müller Sheldon Nodelman Maria C. Pantelia Lisa Raphals Wendy Raschke Michele Renee Salzman Thomas F. Scanlon Edward Watts Andrew Zissos What is the UC Tri Campus Program? Inaugurated in 1998, this innovative program brings together faculty members in Classics and related disciplines from the three southernmost University of California campuses (Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego). The Tri-Campus Program, housed on the Irvine campus, features a rich curriculum and program of study that unites the main currents of modern literary, cultural, and historical theory with the traditional skills and methodologies of classical philology. The Tri-Campus Program is uniquely designed to provide an educational environment for pursuing a graduate career in Classics that is closely integrated into contemporary scholarship, critical theory, and interdisciplinary study. The Program's faculty recognizes that today and in the future teachers of the Classics must possess and develop expertise beyond the standard specialties of the traditional Classics Ph.D. degree. To achieve these goals, the Program and curriculum are designed around five principles: Study the ancient texts and objects in their wider social, cultural, and historical contexts. Bring the cultures of Greece and Rome into the purview of contemporary literary and cultural theory, visual studies, philosophy and history. Examine the reception and appropriation of antiquity over time, beginning with antiquity itself, from Homer to Byzantium and into the modern world. Pay particular attention to contact zones between Greece and Rome and with the other cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Utilize the potentials of new digital technologies as tools for research and teaching.

3 Funding Your application for the Tri-Campus Graduate Program is your application for school fellowships. All UCI Tri-Campus students are guaranteed at least five years of funding. The funding packages generally consist of one or two years of fellowship support combined with three or four years of teaching assistantships. The University of California also offers Diversity Fellowships with similar awards. Both the School of Humanities and UCI Graduate Division offer several other funding opportunities throughout the academic year: school and campus-wide fellowship competitions, conference travel awards, departmental awards, summer funding for language study programs, and teaching awards. 3

4 Location UC Irvine is located three miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, fifty miles south of metropolitan Los Angeles, forty-five miles southwest of UC Riverside and seventy miles north of UC San Diego. In addition to its beaches, mountains and deserts, Southern California offers a wide variety of cultural amenities (museums, theater, film, music, opera, dance, and literary events), many of which are available on our three campuses. 4

5 Resources 5 Outstanding library holdings in Classics and related fields in the combined collections of all nine University of California research libraries, access to the holdings of the California Digital Library, and expeditious Interlibrary Loan Services with other U.S. and international libraries. The facilities of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) at UC Irvine, including the complete TLG collection, and the large collection of primary texts, commentaries, and reference materials housed in the TLG's Marianne Eirene McDonald Library. Combined UCI-UCSD Ph.D. program in theater, which has a strong Classics component, and the nationally renowned regional theatre at La Jolla. Renowned programs in Classics and Ancient History at UCR, including graduate training in Ancient History. Seminars, colloquia, and lectures regularly offered by the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine and by the University of California Humanities Research Institute that is housed on the UC Irvine campus. Tri Campus doctoral students may add an emphasis in Critical Theory under the supervision of the Committee on Comparative Literature and Critical Theory. The Tri-Campus Program also has its own series of lectures and colloquia by visiting scholars on the three campuses. The Southern California Graduate Resource Sharing Consortium, a cooperative association of the Tri Campus Program and the graduate Classics programs of UC Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. A faculty member from one of these programs may offer a graduate seminar in his/her area of expertise at one of the other institutions.

6 How to apply: All applications are submitted online. Prospective applicants are encouraged to get in touch with the Graduate Advisor. For full funding consideration, the application deadline is December 15. Contact: Z.Giannopoulou Program Graduate Advisor Department of Classics University of California Irvine, CA Phone: (949) ; fax (949) Web: