Prospective Students

In their first fall semester, students interested in Classics should take either Greek or Latin and one of the departmental courses on mythology, literature, or history. In the spring, students should continue their study of an ancient language, enroll in the gateway to the major, CC200: The Classical World, take a course on art and archaeology or another course in ancient history.

FALL SEMESTER YEAR 1

CL110           Elementary Latin
or      
CG110          Elementary Greek   

CC220          Classical Mythology


One of the following literature courses:

CC222          Greek Drama: Myth in Action

CC223          Greek and Roman Comedy: Society on the Stage

CC224          The Hero(ine)’s Tale: Traditions of 
                   Greek and Roman Epic

CC225          The Ancient Novel     
  

One of the following history courses:

HI203           Rise of Athens

HI205           Rise of Rome

 

SPRING SEMESTER YEAR 1

CL210         Intermediate Latin
or            
CC200        Classical World  
   

One of the following:

AH222          Greek Art and Archaeology

AH223          Roman Art and Archaeology   
    

One of the following:

HI204          Athens, Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra

HI206          Fall of Rome


SCRIBNER SEMINARS

Departmental faculty participate yearly in the First-Year Experience. While Scribner Seminars do not count towards the Classics major, new students to the College interested in Greco-Roman civilization should consider enrolling in the Seminars offered by our departmental faculty. Recent Scribner Seminars have included

SSP    Democracy (In)action

SSP    Myth Conceptions

SSP    Den of Antiquities: The Illicit Market in Ancient Art

The faculty will offer the following Scribner Seminars in the next two years:

2009  Sex and the Ancient City

2010  Rome to the Raj: Imperial Ambitions of Greece, Rome, Britain, and the US (in London)

2010  Den of Antiquities: The Illicit Market in Ancient Art (in London)