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Latin Placement
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Curriculum
Mission
Classics is the critical study of languages, cultures, and
literature of the ancient world. The societies of ancient
Greece and Rome, the Mediterranean
world, the Middle East, and cultures with faces toward the
Orient are the terrain of Classics. Many of our traditions
rest upon the world of the
Greeks and Romans. Greek, Latin, and Hebrew literature are
studied in the Classics Department. Ancient cities and settlements
are reconstructed through
archaeological and architectural analysis. And the crisis,
failures, and successes of the classical world are examined.
All this is done with a
view toward what the diverse and politically volatile setting
of the ancient world can teach us about our modern context.
The Department prepares people
to study in graduate school in Classics and a range of related
disciplines, it provides a place for the intensive study
of Greek, Hebrew and Latin,
and Classics prepares people for Law School, political science
and theory, as well as work in archaeology and architecture,
among many other things.
Above all, Classics provides a place for the critical analysis
of ancient and foreign cultures, and helps students learn
how to sympathetically enter
and engage a worldview or setting quite different from their
own. Classics focuses on writing, critical reading, language
acquisition, and argumentation.
Students are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities
for foreign study which the Classics department directs.
These include summer archaeological
excavations along the north coast of the Black Sea at the
ancient city of Chersonesus, the month of January living in,
studying, and exploring
the eternal city of Rome, and an interdisciplinary January
program in Jerusalem.
The department also sends students on affiliated programs
of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the
College Year in Athens, and
the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.
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