Bachelor of Arts - Classics

The Department of Classics introduces students to the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world and two of its languages, Greek and Latin. The field is interdisciplinary by nature, because classics majors explore aspects of Greek and Roman life and culture by studying art, architecture, and artifacts, as well as language and literature. The expanse of time covered extends from prehistory to the early middle ages. Students of classics, moreover, learn about the ancient Greco-Roman world's influence on the arts and literature of later cultures, as well as on the social and political structure of the modern world. They also learn how the world of classical antiquity was very different from our own. Classics majors can concentrate on language—either Greek or Latin or both—or they can concentrate on classical civilizations by work in archaeology, and by studying artwork and artifacts, as well as translated texts.