BA Classical Languages and Literatures

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture in all its aspects.  Greek and Roman culture provided the foundation of western culture, including its literature, ideas, art, politics, and conceptions of the individual.  Greek myth is still a shared fund of images and narratives that express human experience. Latin is a major source of English vocabulary, and Greek provides technical language in many fields. Classics explores all of these aspects through over fifteen hundred years of history.  It helps us understand the relationship of western culture to other cultural systems and situate ourselves better in the world.