The Classics Department of Baylor University, one of the top Texan colleges and universities, offers an Intensive Greek summer program aiming to help students get practically involved with both classical and Christian Greek during the 10-week on-campus initiative. Participation in the program equals to 12 credit hours or else four semesters of Greek classes, according to baylorlariat.com.
Dr. Jeff Hunt, Dr. Jeffery Fish, Dr. Simon Burris and Dr. Timothy Heckenlively will organize and lead the students in the most elaborate ever Greek language program that will allow them to follow the junior-level Greek courses in the coming fall semester. From then on, the program will give students the opportunity to work with various Greek texts instead of the standard semester curriculum.
This year’s program aims at focusing on comprehension and understanding of the language’s workings. This means the students will get in direct touch with the simplified ancient Greek texts of Herodotus, from which they will learn basic rules of grammar, word structure, suffixes, etc.
According to baylorlariat.com, the organizing professors are positive the program will be a success story despite being implemented for the first time this year. “The program has already succeeded in other universities including the University of Texas at Austin, where the program was conceived by Gareth Morgan, a late professor of classics at the school” reads the respective report.
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