Major in Classical Languages

How to Declare a Major

Prospective and current majors are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the learning goals articulated for each major.

(All Greek, Latin, and Classics courses are 4 units, except the intensive courses Greek 10 (8 units), Latin 10 (8 units); Greek 15 (10 units), Latin 15 (10 units)

(1) Elementary Language Courses

Elementary Greek: either Greek 1, 2 or Greek 10 (or Greek 15, Summer Workshop)
AND
Elementary Latin: either Latin 1, 2 or Latin 10 (or Latin 15, Summer Workshop)

(2) Intermediate Language Course (to be completed as early as possible after completing either Greek or Latin 100)

Either Greek 40 or Latin 40

(3) Basic Reading Courses

Greek 100 Attic Prose
Greek 101 Homer
Greek 102 Tragedy
Latin 100 Republican Prose
Latin 101 Vergil (Aeneid)
Latin 102 Lyric Poetry

(4) Senior Reading Courses

Two courses from Greek 115-123, Latin 115-155

Greek 115 Archaic Poetry
Greek 116 Greek Drama
Greek 117 Hellenistic Poetry
Greek 120 Herodotus
Greek 121 Thucydides
Greek 122 Attic Oratory
Greek 123 Plato, Aristotle
Latin 115 Roman Drama
Latin 116 Lucretius/Vergil (Georgics)
Latin 117 Elegiac Poetry
Latin 118 Satire
Latin 119 Epic
Latin 120 Livy
Latin 121 Tacitus
Latin 122 Post-Augustan Prose
Latin 123 Petronius, Apuleius
Latin 140 Medieval Latin
Latin 155A-B Readings in Medieval Latin

(5) Classics 10A and 10B

To be completed, if possible, by the end of the Junior year. (Under exceptional circumstances, the undergraduate advisor may authorize substitution of Classics 100A for 10A, or 100B for 10B.)

Normally 60 units in the major, 32 of which are upper division units.*

Recommended additional upper division courses for Classical Languages majors:

additional courses in Greek and Latin

courses in Classics

Sanskrit (see South and Southeast Asian Studies)

Dramatic Art 122 (Theater in Greece and Rome)

History 105A-B-C (Ancient Greece)

History 106A-B (Ancient Rome)

History 107A-B-C (Topics in Ancient History)

History 108 (Byzantium)

History of Art 140 (Aegean Art)

History of Art 141A-B (Greek Art)

History of Art 145 (Roman Art)

Philosophy 160 (Plato)

Philosophy 161 (Aristotle)

Political Science 112A (History of Political Theory)

Rhetoric 100 (Rhetorical Tradition

Rhetoric 130 (Political Oratory)

Rhetoric 166 (Rhetoric, Law and Politics in Ancient Greece)

Honors

Classical Languages majors with an overall University GPA of at least 3.3 and a GPA of at least 3.3 in the major are eligible.

For a full description of the Honors requirements, click HERE.

*Letters and Science requires a minimum average grade of C in courses used to fulfill major requirements, a C average in required upper division courses, and that all courses which are part of a student's major be taken for a letter grade.