Bulletin

Interested in attending Stanford?
Visit Undergraduate Admissions opens in a new tab or Graduate Admissions opens in a new tab.

Resources

  • About Stanford
  • About Bulletin
  • Academic Calendar opens in a new tab
  • Bulletin Archive
  • Enrollment Overview opens in a new tab
  • Enrollment Deadlines opens in a new tab
  • Degrees at a Glance

Schools

  • Doerr School of Sustainability opens in a new tab
  • Graduate School of Business opens in a new tab
  • Graduate School of Education opens in a new tab
  • School of Engineering opens in a new tab
  • School of Humanities and Science opens in a new tab
  • School of Law opens in a new tab
  • School of Medicine opens in a new tab
Give Feedback

Stanford University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges opens in a new tab.

Give Feedback
Stanford
University
  • Stanford Home
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search Stanford
  • Emergency Info
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Trademarks
  • Non-Discrimination
  • Accessibility
© Stanford University.  Stanford, California 94305.
Skip to main content
Stanford University
Bulletin
Classics
School of Humanities & Sciences
  • Major
  • Minor
Program Info
  • About the Program
  • Major: Bachelor of Arts
    • Preparing for the Major
    • Policies
    • Learning Outcomes
  • Minor
  • Courses
  • Contact Us
Undergrad Info
  • Admissions
  • Advising
  • General Education
Loading program
  1. Home
  2. Programs
  3. Undergraduate
  4. Classics
  5. Major: Bachelor of Arts

Major: Bachelor of Arts

Major
  • Classics opens in a new tab
Program Minimum Units
60 Units
University Minimum Units
180 Units
Interests
Literature & Culture, Studying the Past, Languages, Human Rights
Academic Areas
Humanities & Arts, Social Sciences

Overview

The mission of the undergraduate program in Classics is to provide students with a broad background centered on the textual and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, including Greek and Latin language, literature, philosophy, history, art, and archaeology. At Stanford, students in the Classics program also explore the connections between ancient cultures and the modern world, as well as specialized fields such as ancient economics, law, textual criticism, and science. The program’s faculty approaches Classics from an interdisciplinary perspective that crosses geographical, temporal, and thematic territories. The program is concerned not only with Greek and Roman civilization but also with the interaction of cultures and societies that influenced the ancient Mediterranean basin and continue to influence human society across the globe.

Requirements

Writing in the Major (WIM)

Writing in the Major (WIM)

Complete all of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 150

Majors Seminar

5 Units

Capstone

Course Requirement

CLASSICS 150- Majors Seminar also satisfies WIM.

Complete all of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 150

Majors Seminar

5 Units

Subplans

Required
Students must select a subplan to complete this program. A subplan is an officially declared and defined set of requirements that provides a way for students to go deeper into a discipline or focus within a program.

Classical Studies Subplan

Latin or Greek Courses

At least two courses in Latin or Greek at the intermediate-level or higher OR the complete beginning series of either Latin or Greek.

Complete any of the following requirements:
Intermediate-level or higher
Complete at least 2 of the following courses:
CLASSICS 11L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 12L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 13L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 101L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 11G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 12G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 13G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 101G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
or
Beginning Series

Complete one of the following entire beginning series of either Latin or Greek.

Complete any of the following requirements:
Beginning Latin Series
Complete all of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 1L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 2L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 3L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
or
Beginning Greek Series
Complete all of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 1G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 2G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 3G

Beginning Greek

5 Units

Language courses may be repeated for credit toward the degree only with advance written permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Electives

Remaining units from your choice of CLASSICS courses.

Ancient History Subplan

Core Requirement

Complete at least three of the following courses for a total of 15 units. Two of the three courses must be Classics 83 (The Greeks) and Classics 84 (The Romans).

Complete at least 3 of the following courses:
CLASSICS 81

Ancient Empires: Near East

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 83

The Greeks

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 84

The Romans

3-5 Units

Depth Requirement

Complete anywhere from 20-24 units of ancient history and civilization courses.

Suggested courses can be found below. Additional courses, including Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit (SNSKTLNG1-3) language courses, and IntroSems courses may count toward this requirement if approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Complete any of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 31

Greek Mythology

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 37

Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome

3 Units
CLASSICS 40

The History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

4 Units
CLASSICS 42

Philosophy and Literature

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 47

Ancient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science

3 Units
CLASSICS 67

Madness in Greek and Latin Literature

3 Units
CLASSICS 76

Global History: The World's Foundations

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 106

Theories of The State, Violence, Nationalism, and Social Order

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 112

Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice

4 Units
CLASSICS 118

Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern

3 Units
CLASSICS 120

Alexander the Great

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 123

Ancient Medicine

3-4 Units
CLASSICS 127

Dialogues with the Dead

5 Units
CLASSICS 134

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 141

Ancient Greek Religion

3 Units
CLASSICS 156

Design of Cities

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 164

Roman Gladiators

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 179

Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 181

Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 184

Laughing At History: A (Selective) History of Comedy from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 187

Societal Collapse

5 Units
CLASSICS 189

Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Ideal, from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 193

Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 262

Sex and the Early Church

5 Units
CLASSICS 16N

Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos

3 Units
CLASSICS 17SC

Classical California

2 Units
CLASSICS 21Q

Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 26N

The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall

4 Units

Breadth Requirements

Complete at least 4 units in the areas “Greek and Roman Archaeology and art” and “Historical and social theory”, and at least 8 units in the area “Comparative ancient civilizations” as described below, so as to reach a total of 16-20 units.

Other courses may count toward this requirement with approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. 

Complete all of the following requirements:
Greek and Roman Archaeology and art
Earn at least 4 units in the following course(s):
CLASSICS 11N

Roman Portraits and Persons

3 Units
CLASSICS 30

Greek Archaeology: The Worlds the Greeks Made

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 151

Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design

3 Units
CLASSICS 153

Ancient Urbanism

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 154

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 161

Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period

4 Units
CLASSICS 162

Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas

4 Units
CLASSICS 163

Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks

5 Units
CLASSICS 168

Engineering the Roman Empire

3-5 Units
and
Historical and social theory
Earn at least 4 units in the following course(s):
ANTHRO 1

Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

3-5 Units
ANTHRO 90B

Theory of Cultural and Social Anthropology

5 Units
ECON 1

Principles of Economics

5 Units
SOC 1

Introduction to Sociology

5 Units
SOC 142

Sociology of Gender

4 Units
SOC 170

Classics of Modern Social Theory

4 Units

Comparative ancient civilizations

Complete at least two courses and 8 units on the ancient world beyond the traditional scope of Classics.

Complete all of the following requirements:
Required Course
Complete all of the following course(s):
HISTORY 1A

Global History: The World's Foundations

3-5 Units
and
Required Course Options
Earn at least 4 units in the following course(s):
ANTHRO 108

Discovering the World of Indus

5 Units
ARTHIST 1A

What is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture

3-5 Units
CHINA 23N

Heroes and Heroism

3 Units
CHINA 176

Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces

3-4 Units
CLASSICS 186

African Archive Beyond Colonization

3-5 Units
JEWISHST 116

The Hebrew Bible: Readings in religion and culture

3-5 Units
RELIGST 4

What Didn't Make the Bible

4 Units
RELIGST 86

Exploring the New Testament

4 Units

Greek Subplan

Ancient Greek at the intermediate-level or higher

Earn at least 35 units in the following course(s):
CLASSICS 2G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 3G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 11G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 12G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 13G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 101G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 105A

Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

5 Units

CLASSICS105A – Greek Syntax should not be taken until students complete the advanced sequence of Greek.

Intermediate and Advanced Language courses (with the exception of Classics 11G) may be repeated for credit toward the degree only with advance written permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. If a student completes the Advanced Language sequence or otherwise demonstrates the ability to proceed to graduate level language courses, they may do so with the approval of the Director of Undergraduate studies and the specific graduate course instructor.

CLASSICS6G Biblical Greek and CLASSICS 7G Byzantine Greek may be taken in satisfaction of the majorʼs language requirement.

Additional Courses

Complete at least 3 of the following courses:
CLASSICS 30

Greek Archaeology: The Worlds the Greeks Made

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 30N

Making fun of History: Insults, Mockery and Abuse Language in Antiquity

3 Units
CLASSICS 31

Greek Mythology

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 31N

Heroes and Heroism

3 Units
CLASSICS 36

Gender and Power in Ancient Rome

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 37

Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome

3 Units
CLASSICS 40

The History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

4 Units
CLASSICS 42

Philosophy and Literature

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 43

Exploring the New Testament

4 Units
CLASSICS 44

Epic! Life, Death, and Glory in the Iliad and Odyssey

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 45

Ancients and Moderns: Africa and South Asia in World Literature

3 Units
CLASSICS 47

Ancient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science

3 Units
CLASSICS 48

The Life and Legends of Cleopatra VII

4 Units
CLASSICS 49A

Classical Texts and Traditions I: "It's All Greek to Me": Ancient Greek Classics

3 Units
CLASSICS 49B

Classical Texts and Traditions II - Across Oceans of Time: Classical Roman Texts

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 49C

Classical Texts and Traditions III - The Classical Age: Europe and Antiquity

3 Units
CLASSICS 50N

Pixels from the Past: Ancient Greece and Rome in Digital Media

3 Units
CLASSICS 52

Introduction to Roman Archaeology

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 53

Pompeii

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 56

What is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 59

The Archaeological Imagination

3 Units
CLASSICS 67

Madness in Greek and Latin Literature

3 Units
CLASSICS 76

Global History: The World's Foundations

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 77

What is Platonic Love?

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 81

Ancient Empires: Near East

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 83

The Greeks

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 84

The Romans

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 112

Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice

4 Units
CLASSICS 113

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

5 Units
CLASSICS 115

Virtual Italy

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 116

Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 117

The Archaeology of Frontiers, Borderlands, and Boundaries

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 118

Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern

3 Units
CLASSICS 119

The Dome as an All-Seeing Eye: Theatre of Judgment in Byzantine Art

5 Units
CLASSICS 120

Alexander the Great

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 122

Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship

1-3 Units
CLASSICS 123

Ancient Medicine

3-4 Units
CLASSICS 125

The Hindu Epics and the Ethics of Dharma

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 127

Dialogues with the Dead

5 Units
CLASSICS 129

Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 132

Whose Classics? Race and Classical Antiquity in the U.S.

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 133

Socrates and Social Justice

5 Units
CLASSICS 134

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 135A

Authorship and its Limits from Homer to Generative AI

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 136

The Greek Invention of Mathematics

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 140

Byzantine Greek

1-3 Units
CLASSICS 141

Ancient Greek Religion

3 Units
CLASSICS 141C

"Erotic" Roman Art from Pompeii and Herculaneum

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 142

Reading Greek and Roman Slavery

1 Units
CLASSICS 143

The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 143A

Beyond Latin and Greek - The Fragmentary Languages of Ancient Italy

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 145

Narratives of Enslavement

5 Units
CLASSICS 146

'Romanizing' the Empire

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 147C

Classical Leadership

3 Units
CLASSICS 147R

Building Heaven and Hell

4 Units
CLASSICS 149

Democracy Ancient and Modern: From Politics to Political Theory

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 150

Majors Seminar

5 Units
CLASSICS 151

Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design

3 Units
CLASSICS 153

Ancient Urbanism

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 154

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 155

Mediterranean Islands

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 156

Design of Cities

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 158

Medieval Image Theory

5 Units
CLASSICS 161

Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period

4 Units
CLASSICS 162

Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas

4 Units
CLASSICS 163

Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks

5 Units
CLASSICS 164

Roman Gladiators

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 168

Engineering the Roman Empire

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 170

History of Archaeological Thought

5 Units
CLASSICS 171

Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 173

Hagia Sophia

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 179

Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 181

Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 184

Laughing At History: A (Selective) History of Comedy from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 184A

Barbarians at the Gate: Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Rome

3 Units
CLASSICS 185

Reading the Archimedes Palimpsest

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 186

African Archive Beyond Colonization

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 187

Societal Collapse

5 Units
CLASSICS 189

Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Ideal, from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 192

Latin (and Its Speakers) in Time and Space

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 193

Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics

3-5 Units

Electives

Remaining units from your choice of CLASSICS courses (Latin, Biblical Greek, Sanskrit, or ancient history recommended).

Latin Subplan

Latin at the intermediate-level or higher

Complete at least 35 units from the following Latin courses

Earn at least 35 units in the following course(s):
CLASSICS 2L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 3L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 11L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 12L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 13L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 101L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units

CLASSICS104A Latin Syntax should not be taken until students complete the advanced sequence of Latin.

Intermediate and Advanced Language courses (with the exception of Classics 11L) may be repeated for credit toward the degree only with advance written permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. If a student completes the Advanced Language sequence or otherwise demonstrates the ability to proceed to graduate level language courses, they may do so with the approval of the Director of Undergraduate studies and the specific graduate course instructor.

CLASSICS6L opens in a new tab Latin 400-1700 CE may count toward the Latin intermediate-level language requirement. May be repeated for credit toward the degree with advance written permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Additional Courses

Complete at least 3 of the following courses:
CLASSICS 30

Greek Archaeology: The Worlds the Greeks Made

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 30N

Making fun of History: Insults, Mockery and Abuse Language in Antiquity

3 Units
CLASSICS 31

Greek Mythology

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 31N

Heroes and Heroism

3 Units
CLASSICS 36

Gender and Power in Ancient Rome

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 37

Great Books, Big Ideas from Ancient Greece and Rome

3 Units
CLASSICS 40

The History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

4 Units
CLASSICS 42

Philosophy and Literature

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 43

Exploring the New Testament

4 Units
CLASSICS 44

Epic! Life, Death, and Glory in the Iliad and Odyssey

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 45

Ancients and Moderns: Africa and South Asia in World Literature

3 Units
CLASSICS 47

Ancient Knowledge, New Frontiers: How the Greek Legacy Became Islamic Science

3 Units
CLASSICS 48

The Life and Legends of Cleopatra VII

4 Units
CLASSICS 49A

Classical Texts and Traditions I: "It's All Greek to Me": Ancient Greek Classics

3 Units
CLASSICS 49B

Classical Texts and Traditions II - Across Oceans of Time: Classical Roman Texts

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 49C

Classical Texts and Traditions III - The Classical Age: Europe and Antiquity

3 Units
CLASSICS 50N

Pixels from the Past: Ancient Greece and Rome in Digital Media

3 Units
CLASSICS 52

Introduction to Roman Archaeology

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 53

Pompeii

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 56

What is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 59

The Archaeological Imagination

3 Units
CLASSICS 67

Madness in Greek and Latin Literature

3 Units
CLASSICS 76

Global History: The World's Foundations

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 77

What is Platonic Love?

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 81

Ancient Empires: Near East

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 83

The Greeks

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 84

The Romans

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 112

Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice

4 Units
CLASSICS 113

Enchanted Images: Medieval Art and Its Sonic Dimension

5 Units
CLASSICS 115

Virtual Italy

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 116

Human Rights in Comparative and Historical Perspective

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 117

The Archaeology of Frontiers, Borderlands, and Boundaries

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 118

Slavery, human trafficking, and the moral order: ancient and modern

3 Units
CLASSICS 119

The Dome as an All-Seeing Eye: Theatre of Judgment in Byzantine Art

5 Units
CLASSICS 120

Alexander the Great

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 122

Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship

1-3 Units
CLASSICS 123

Ancient Medicine

3-4 Units
CLASSICS 125

The Hindu Epics and the Ethics of Dharma

4-5 Units
CLASSICS 127

Dialogues with the Dead

5 Units
CLASSICS 129

Human Rights in an Age of Great Power Rivalry, War, and Political Transformation

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 132

Whose Classics? Race and Classical Antiquity in the U.S.

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 133

Socrates and Social Justice

5 Units
CLASSICS 134

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 135A

Authorship and its Limits from Homer to Generative AI

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 136

The Greek Invention of Mathematics

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 140

Byzantine Greek

1-3 Units
CLASSICS 141

Ancient Greek Religion

3 Units
CLASSICS 141C

"Erotic" Roman Art from Pompeii and Herculaneum

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 142

Reading Greek and Roman Slavery

1 Units
CLASSICS 143

The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 143A

Beyond Latin and Greek - The Fragmentary Languages of Ancient Italy

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 145

Narratives of Enslavement

5 Units
CLASSICS 146

'Romanizing' the Empire

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 147C

Classical Leadership

3 Units
CLASSICS 147R

Building Heaven and Hell

4 Units
CLASSICS 149

Democracy Ancient and Modern: From Politics to Political Theory

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 150

Majors Seminar

5 Units
CLASSICS 151

Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design

3 Units
CLASSICS 153

Ancient Urbanism

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 154

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 155

Mediterranean Islands

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 156

Design of Cities

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 158

Medieval Image Theory

5 Units
CLASSICS 161

Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period

4 Units
CLASSICS 162

Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas

4 Units
CLASSICS 163

Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks

5 Units
CLASSICS 164

Roman Gladiators

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 168

Engineering the Roman Empire

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 170

History of Archaeological Thought

5 Units
CLASSICS 171

Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E.

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 173

Hagia Sophia

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 179

Dancing in Ancient Greece and Rome

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 181

Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 184

Laughing At History: A (Selective) History of Comedy from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 184A

Barbarians at the Gate: Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Rome

3 Units
CLASSICS 185

Reading the Archimedes Palimpsest

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 186

African Archive Beyond Colonization

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 187

Societal Collapse

5 Units
CLASSICS 189

Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Ideal, from Antiquity to the Present

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 192

Latin (and Its Speakers) in Time and Space

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 193

Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics

3-5 Units

Electives

Remaining units from your choice of CLASSICS courses (Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek or ancient history recommended)

Greek and Latin Subplan

Latin

Earn at least 30 units in the following course(s):
CLASSICS 2L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 3L

Beginning Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 11L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 12L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 13L

Intermediate Latin

5 Units
CLASSICS 101L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103L

Advanced Latin

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 104

Latin Syntax

4 Units
CLASSICS 210

Latin Prose Composition

5 Units

CLASSICS 1L Beginning Latin may count toward the above 30 units as long as Greek is begun at the intermediate level or higher. See Additional Comments.

Greek

Earn at least 30 units in the following course(s):
CLASSICS 2G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 3G

Beginning Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 11G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 12G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 13G

Intermediate Greek

5 Units
CLASSICS 101G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 102G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 103G

Advanced Greek

3-5 Units
CLASSICS 205

Greek Syntax: Prose Composition

5 Units
CLASSICS 211G

Greek Prose Composition

5 Units

CLASSICS 1G Beginning Greek may count toward the above 30 units as long as Latin is begun at the intermediate level or higher. See Additional Comments.

Recommended additional coursework in Biblical Greek, Sanskrit, or Ancient History - CLASSICS 6G Biblical Greek and CLASSICS 7G Byzantine Greek and CLASSICS 6L Latin 400-1700 CE may count as intermediate language levels. Sanskrit may be counted toward the degree only if Greek and Latin requirements are fulfilled with coursework at the intermediate level and above.

Intermediate and Advanced Language courses (with the exception of Classics 11G and 11L) may be repeated for credit toward the degree only with advance written permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. If a student completes the Advanced Language sequence or otherwise demonstrates the ability to proceed to graduate level language courses, they may do so with the approval of the Director of Undergraduate studies and the specific graduate course instructor.

It is recommended that this include CLASSICS104 Latin Syntax and CLASSICS210 Prose Composition (for Latin) and CLASSICS205 Greek Syntax: Prose Composition and CLASSICS211G Greek Prose Composition (for Greek). But this series should not be taken until the advanced-level coursework in the relevant language is completed.

Greek and Latin subplan: 65 total units required.

Honors

Optional
Students may choose to pursue department honors by completing a program of special advanced work, such as an honors thesis, in addition to their major requirements.

Honors

Honors (optional)

The Honors Degree in Classics is designed for students who demonstrate exceptional academic performance and a commitment to scholarly research within the field. To qualify for this prestigious designation, students must fulfill the following criteria:

GPA Requirement: A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.6 within the major is required to ensure a strong foundation in Classics.

Course Requirement: Upon approval of the final proposal, students may enroll in CLASSICS199 

Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research during their senior year. Participants can earn up to 6 units per term, with a total maximum of 10 units, which may contribute toward fulfilling major requirements. Candidates must complete an honors thesis, which serves as a capstone of their scholarly work.

Supervisor Selection: Students are required to select a tenure-track Classics professor or the Director of Undergraduate Studies to supervise their thesis.

Additional information, including the proposal submission deadlines, can be found on the Classics webpage opens in a new tab.

Complete all of the following course(s):
CLASSICS 199

Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research

1-10 Units