Classics

Read ancient Greek prose and verse literature (Greek Emphasis) with a high degree of understanding.

Read Latin prose and verse literature (Latin Emphasis) with a high degree of understanding.

Understand the history of Greece from Mycenaean civilization through the Hellenistic Age, and apply principles of historiography and historical evaluation (Greek Emphasis).

Understand the history of Rome from the legendary stories of Aeneas, Romulus, and Remus through the fall of Rome in A. D. 476, and apply principles of historiography and historical evaluation (Latin Emphasis).

Understand and apply principles and practice of critical theory, with specific reference to ancient Greek texts (Greek Emphasis) or Latin texts (Latin Emphasis).

Understand the literary history of Classical Greek literature (Greek Emphasis) or Latin literature (Latin Emphasis), and evaluate texts through close reading in the original language and in translation.

Integrate knowledge of history, literature, philosophy, art, architecture, and rhetoric.