From laval@hum.uva.nl Thu Apr 1 04:30:58 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id EAA14222 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 04:30:57 -0800 Received: from bs22.bs.uva.nl (bs22.bs.uva.nl [145.18.228.21]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id EAA14337 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 04:30:56 -0800 Received: from otm056020.hum.uva.nl (otm056020.hum.uva.nl [145.18.56.20]) by bs22.bs.uva.nl (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA12719 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:30:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.2.16.19990401143156.291fd36e@mail.hum.uva.nl> X-Sender: laval@mail.hum.uva.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (16) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:31:56 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: majors of students who take Classics classes In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 22:08 31-03-99 -0600, Lisa Auanger wrote: >A while ago in the context of an interview, someone told me >that many of the students taking classes in that department were studying >business. Has anyone done an analysis of the majors/areas of >concentration of students taking courses in Classics elsewhere? What are >the predominant areas of study? What areas could be benefitted by study of >Classics that are not currently represented? Not an answer to your questions, but another observation. I had a noteworthy number of economics students when I taught Classics at a certain Ivy League school back going on thirty years ago. What sticks more in my mind than the absolute numbers was that they were some of my best students. Also, when I had later moved on to another institution, in the Midwest, and one day was doing my rounds on the university's track, a young man whom I didn't at first recognize came up to me out of the blue to tell me how much a certain lecture class (I think it was Greek lit. in translation) he'd taken with me at that Ivy school had meant to him. I don't know what his major had been, but he had afterwards gone on to -- I think it was -- medical school at this other institution. He wanted to thank me for what he had learned, and still carried with him. Sort of made my day (especially in combination with a good run). Regards, ~~~~~~~~~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /| //| R. Laval Hunsucker /#| Bibliotheek (Humaniora / UB), Univ. v. Amsterdam /#| Amsterdam - Nederland [E.U.] /#| hunsucker@uba.uva.nl /#| laval@hum.uva.nl /#| tel. (31-20) 525-2498 ; 525-2550 ; 525-2477 /#| fax (31-20) 525-2311 ; 525-2544 /#| [ _Aiolos_: ] /#| /# ----------------------------------------------------------------- /################################################################## /////////////////// / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / .