Sentences with phrase «classical languages»

The great thing about a background in classical languages is that you are not just studying the languages themselves.

The main reason for the existence of such courses was to satisfy the requirement for excellent knowledge of classical languages for students.

The second point is that one might ask why the thing has to be described in classical language.

She was admitted to Wadleigh High, a public exam schools for girls, where she was one of a handful of Negro students, and where she studied classical languages under the tutelage of the dean, graduating two years later with the Greek and Latin prizes.

The phenomena are described through classical language, but instead of using classical calculus to predict from one phenomenon to the next, we replace the classical calculus with the quantum algorithm — wave functions, matrices, and so on.

To me it should be an update from Greek and the other classical languages.

Courses like zoology and technical drawing were common and classical languages still maintained a strong foothold.

Harvey earned a law degree from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree in classical languages from Holy Cross College.

Boden earned a degree in classical languages at Macalester College and worked as an IT project manager before moving into animal welfare.

After an early academic background studying classical languages and literature, Clemente briefly enrolled as an architecture student at the University of Rome before exhibiting drawings, reworking photographs and producing conceptual works in the 1970s.

I think the parallels to myself are most obviously Kelly's interest in classical languages.

It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «God so loved mankind», but «God so loved the world».

The aim is, for the teacher, «covering the material»; for the student, speed and accuracy in «information retrieval,» The rigid application of this paradigm is well illustrated by the teaching of classical languages in the nineteenth century.

In this logically impeccable form, the scheme killed off interest in the classical languages so effectively that it had to be modified.

There is nothing remotely similar for English - speaking Christians, and without it people lacking command of classical languages and access to university libraries have no first - hand knowledge of the past.

For me, God is still a Thou, never a You, and is best honored and celebrated in classical language, melodies and theology.

The classical language of trinitarian theology, three distinct persons of one divine nature, has been logically puzzling since the great controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries.

University students were instructed in classical languages, rhetoric and grammar, and natural philosophy — studies that prepared the students for a better grasp of God's revelation within Scripture and the natural world.

The old - school professors opposed the abandonment of the classical languages, but those working toward a new core curriculum at Columbia pointed to the near - universal use of the Bible in English.

In the classical language of Arabs, khalq is considered as an act of God and Al - khaliq, the Creator, is one of the names of God in the Qur» an5.

A new approach was adopted by the humanists, who concentrated on the study of classical languages, including Greek and Hebrew, and sought to get back to biblical sources of the faith.

Along with Sanskrit, Tamil is one of the world's classical languages, but unlike Sanskrit, there is continuity between its classical and modern forms documented in inscriptions, poems, and secular and religious texts and songs.

In addition to major languages such as English, German, French, and Spanish, the database also included ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Tamil, and Telugu, one of India's classical languages.

While the Committee of Ten did suggest different programs of study for high schools (for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality liberal arts education.

He received his BA in classical languages and literature from the University of Chicago in 1987.

After an early academic background in classical languages and literature, he briefly enrolled as an architecture student at the University of Rome, in 1970.

Based on Contempt, Cheryl Donegan's Line, 1996, does not, the artist maintains, «seek to analyze or critique the Godard film, but to use it as a... classical language through which other stories can be told.»