Bachelor of Arts - Classical Studies

Program Description

Classics offers the unique opportunity to gain new perspective on language, literature, culture, and political structure by examining their roots in ancient Greece and Rome. Classics is unique among modern academic disciplines in the breadth of its approach to its subject – it is a field in which students must be simultaneously linguist, literary critic, anthropologist, sociologist, and historian of politics, religion and art.

In classics, students will study all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including: history; mythology; art; archaeology; language; literature.

Introductory courses focus on classical civilization, mythology, and archaeology, while upper year studies specialize in topics like Greek democracy, the Roman emperors, health and medicine, and Greek and Roman drama, poetry, and art.