古典文学学士学位

该系开设古典学专业，并具有三个重点。学生可以选择重点学习希腊和拉丁语言文学，拉丁语言文学或古典文明。鼓励学生就专业的适当选择和课程设计咨询古典学院。为了强调希腊语和拉丁语和文学，对经典著作的研究必须基于希腊语和拉丁语的能力。这种重点旨在为学生提供尽可能快的语言能力，因此，到希腊或拉丁语一年级课程结束时，已经以原始语言将学生介绍给了一些主要的古典作家。从那时起，课程专门致力于阅读和解释古希腊和罗马的文学。除了接受语言培训外，学生还可以通过对一些最优秀的作家的仔细研究来提高对古代世界文学，历史和思想的了解。
The Department offers a major in Classics with three possible emphases. Students may choose an emphasis in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Latin Language and Literature, or Classical Civilization. Students are encouraged to consult with the Classics faculty regarding the appropriate choice of major and design of their programs.<br><br>For the emphasis in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, study of the Classics must be based on competence in both Greek and Latin. This emphasis is designed to provide the student with language competence as rapidly as possible, so that by the end of first-year Greek or Latin the student has already been introduced to some of the major Classical authors in the original language. From then on, courses are devoted to reading and interpreting the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. In addition to their training in the languages, students increase their knowledge of the literature, history, and thought of the ancient world through the close study of some of its finest writers.<br><br>The Latin Language and Literature emphasis is designed for those students who want to focus on Rome and the Latin language as their area of study. By the end of first-year Latin, students will be reading and analyzing some of the most influential works in Latin literature. In addition to gaining an expertise in Latin, students also devote a portion of their study to an examination of the history and culture of ancient Rome by taking upper-division Classical Civilization courses with Rome as their focus and/or additional Latin courses. Courses from other departments in the School of Humanities with a focus on later historical periods heavily influenced by Roman culture (such as the medieval period) may be used to satisfy some of the degree requirements, with prior approval of the Department of Classics.