{"id":3108,"date":"2014-12-30T17:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/?page_id=3108"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:37:18","slug":"read-more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classics\/read-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics, Greek, Latin, Ancient Studies, and Medieval Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Classics at St. Olaf College<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Classics is the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans\u2014especially their languages (Greek and Latin), literature, and culture. It includes consideration of the Greeks’ and Romans’ own multi-racial and multi-ethnic world and their interactions with the diversity of cultures in Europe, Africa, the Near East, and Asia, from 3000 BCE through medieval times.<\/p>\n

St. Olaf students take Greek and Latin for a variety of reasons. Some are eager to read influential or inspiring works in the original languages. Some are preparing themselves for a particular career. \u00a0Some choose to study an ancient language because they know that it will improve their verbal and analytical skills while simultaneously satisfying the College’s language requirement.\u00a0 And some take Greek or Latin just because it is fun! What could be more exciting and more intellectually challenging than being able to decipher a text composed two or even three millennia ago?<\/p>\n

The Department of Classics offers a full range of courses in Greek and Latin, as well as Classics courses that examine the ancient Mediterranean world from multiple perspectives\u2014literary, artistic, historical, philosophical, theological. Five majors are available: Greek<\/a>,\u00a0Latin<\/a>,\u00a0Classics<\/a>\u00a0(Greek and Latin combined),\u00a0Ancient Studies<\/a>, and\u00a0Medieval Studies<\/a>. The last two are interdisciplinary.<\/p>\n

NOTE: St. Olaf’s 70-year-old program in Latin Education with Teaching Licensure has now been discontinued. Students interested in becoming K-12\u00a0 Latin (and Greek) teachers are encouraged to take Education courses and to consider enrolling in a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program after they graduate from St. Olaf. The Society of Classical Studies (SCS) website includes a list<\/a> of Classics graduate programs in North America.<\/em><\/p>\n

St. Olaf graduates have recently completed or are enrolled in M.A., M.A.T., or Ph.D. programs in Classical Studies, Archaeology, or Medieval Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Indiana University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona, the University of British Columbia, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Colorado, the University of Georgia, the University of Glasgow, the University of Illinois, the University of Limerick, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of Minnesota, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Oxford, the University of Southampton, the University of Texas, the University of Toronto, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a> to see a list of current St. Olaf students with declared majors in Classics, Greek, Latin, Ancient Studies, or Medieval Studies.<\/p>\n

St. Olaf College offers:<\/p>\n