The Greek and Latin Languages Concentration is for students wishing to study the remarkably rich literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans in the original languages. Students select from a wide variety of courses treating epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history and biography, novels and short stories, rhetoric, philosophy, and satire. A grade of C or higher is needed in each course to count toward the major.
A. Prerequisites (unless fulfilled by AP exam): students must complete both Greek and Latin through the 200-level. This sequence also satisfies the CHFA language requirement. (24 credits)
Latin 110 (3cr.) and Greek 112: Elementary 1 (3cr.) and
Latin 120 (3cr.) Greek 122: Elementary 2 (3cr.)
or Latin 126 (Intensive, 6cr.) or Greek 126 (Intensive, 6cr.)
Latin 230 (3cr.) Greek 230 (3cr.)
Latin 240 (3cr.) Greek 240 (3cr.)
or Latin 246 (Intensive, 6cr.) or Greek 246 (Intensive, 6cr.)
B. Required language component, 300-level: all four courses are required. (12 credits)
Latin 310: Latin Prose (3cr)
Latin 320: Latin Poetry (3cr)
Greek 310: Greek Poetry (3cr)
Greek 320: Greek Prose (3cr)
C. Required language component, 400-level: select from Greek and/or Latin. (4 courses; 12 cr. min.)
Latin 425: Vergil Greek 432: Epic Poetry
Latin 430: Satire Greek 442: Lyric, Elegiac, & Pastoral Poetry
Latin 435: Lyric and Elegy Greek 452: History
Latin 445: Roman Drama Greek 462: Greek Drama
Latin 450: Cicero
Latin 455: Ovid
Greek 460: Euripides
Greek 465: Sophocles
Latin 460: The Roman Novel Greek 472: Plato
Latin 462: Latin Ghost Stories Greek 474: Greek Ghost Stories
Greek 475: Lucian
D. Junior Year Writing (JYW) requirement: students must take one JYW course.
This is a university requirement, but one that usually must be fulfilled within a student’s primary major. Even if you have more than one major, you need only one JYW.
Classics 381: Junior Year Writing (3cr.)
E. Integrative Experience: students must take one IE. This is a university requirement,
but one that usually must be fulfilled within a student’s primary major. Even if you have more than one major, you need only one IE.
Classics 494JI: Jews in Greco-Roman Antiquity (4cr.)
Classics 494PI: Herodotus and the Persian Wars (4cr.)
Classics 494SI: Slavery and Manumission in the Greco-Roman World (4cr.)