DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS

UPPER LEVEL "CLASSICS" COURSES here are almost always reading courses in Greek and Latin authors, read in the original. If you scrutinize other programs closely, seeing past all glossy surfaces, you will discover, perhaps to your surprise, that this is actually very rare. We are able to do this because so many basic classical texts are taught in translation extremely well by other departments, in U.D.'s classically oriented Core program of twenty-five courses that all students must take... CONSEQUENT ADVANTAGES. From this a U.D. classics major or concentrator gets three plain advantages: (a) a more thorough training in the languages than is possible elsewhere, yet also (b) (from the Core) a more solid general education in classical thought and culture than is possible elsewhere, and (c) the conviction - which elsewhere is hard to feel, but which we think that young classicists value - that their field is not some arcane and marginal "specialty" but the core of the Core. For those..