College of Arts and Sciences
Curriculum
Why study classics? To find a challenging and immensely rewarding field of study, and to explore the familiar yet foreign country that is our past. You'll take coursework from each of the following key areas in classical studies: Greek, Latin, literature in translation, anthropology, history, history of art, linguistics, philosophy and religion. Take a deeper dive into the areas that interest you the most by pursuing higher-level coursework in those areas.
The major in classics with Greek emphasis usually consists of 27 credits in Greek, with at least 18 credits coming from courses numbered 300 and above. Courses in Latin may be substituted up to a total of 9 credits. Courses from the approved list for classical civilization may be substituted up to a total of 6 credits with the approval of the program director.
The major in classics with Latin emphasis consists of 27 credits in Latin, with at least 18 credits coming from courses numbered 300 and above. Courses in Greek may be substituted up to a total of 9 credits. Courses from the approved list for classical civilization may be substituted up to a total of 6 credits with the approval of the program director.
- Identify basic syntactic structures of your language of concentration.
- Acquire working vocabulary of several hundred words in your language of concentration.
- Read and translate simple texts in the language at sight in addition to more complex texts in that language (which will include both poetry and prose) with the aid of a dictionary.
- Describe/analyze the cultural context that produced the texts studied in classics, incorporating Greek and Roman literary, political and social history.
- Synthesize close reading and analysis of texts to conduct research in the field, employing the major research tools and methods used to study Greek and Latin.
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