REQUIREMENTS FOR CLASSICS MAJORS

Students interested in joining the Department normally should have completed either Greek 108 or Latin 108. A strongly motivated student who has completed Greek 102 or Latin 102 may concentrate in the Department with permission of the Departmental Representative.

As concentrators in the Department, students must complete at least one course in advanced Greek or Latin (courses numbered 300 and above). Eight departmental courses are required for graduation. These may include courses taught in translation and some given by other departments.

All language courses and seminars are small, seldom exceeding 15 students. Lecture courses in translation are supplemented by precepts, smaller classes meeting once or twice a week in which the readings and the lecturer's remarks may be discussed and challenged. For example, the third hour of Classics 216 Archaic and Classical Greece divides into precepts of about ten students, while Classics 335 Studies in the Classical Tradition meets as a class of about ten students twice a week.