The program will emphasize the history, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome through courses taught in English translation. Students completing this program will have developed a deep knowledge of the ancient Greco-Roman world and its continued importance, as well as critical thinking, research, and writing skills.
Despite being thousands of years old, the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome are ever relevant. Their gods, warriors, and monsters continue to populate our movies, art, video games, novels, and poetry. Their experiments with democratic and republican forms of government, and their political philosophy with its meditations on the nature of good government, had a profound impact on the framing of the United States Constitution. Their history continues to offer a powerful analog to the events we now experience, as we see every time a politician is compared to Julius Caesar or modern America to the latter-day Roman Empire about to fall.