• Students may also study how people of later periods, from the middle ages to the present, reused and responded to classical antiquity, in the fields of philosophy, religion, political theory, art history, film studies, English, and comparative literature.
  • The school refers to courses about antiquity and reception studies that are outside the Department of Classics as Classical Traditions courses. The Department of Classics maintains an updated list of such courses that may count toward the major and minor.
  • Classics is a demanding and distinctive course of study that stresses the development of some exceedingly important intellectual sensibilities—close reading, analytical clarity, thorough research, evaluation of evidence, logical analysis, effective writing, appreciation of nuance and subtleties, historical variability, cultural differences. Students are well prepared to succeed after college. Recent majors have gone on to graduate school and employment in fields as varied as medicine, law, art history, business, secondary education and, sometimes, even Classics.