The Classical Studies Program concentrates with the languages of the Greco-Roman world, and the thought, as expressed in literature (and art), from Homer in 800 BC to St. Augustine in 400 AD, dealing with a full range of literary genres: epic, tragedy, comedy, lyric, satire, elegy, epigram, oratory, rhetorical theory, history, philosophical dialogue (or treatise), didactic poetry and prose, bucolic poetry, epistolography, funerary (and other) inscriptions.

We make it a point to provide courses relevant to students’ concerns in teaching, stressing the technical side of the Latin language and examining authors, like Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and Cicero, that figure in the Advanced Placement Syllabus. ...read more.

Our Undergraduate Program consists of a major and minor in Classics, with course studies in Latin and Greek, while our Graduate Program offers an M.A. in Classical Studies as well as the opportunity to obtain a combination Five-Year B.A./M.A. in Classical Studies.