Degrees Offered:
- BA
- Minor*
- BAM
- MA
- PhD
* = Minors are not technically a degree, but can be pursued to supplement a bachelor's degree
The Department of Classics is home to the University’s first multicultural, interdisciplinary program. They are multicultural because they study the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, but also the many peoples with whom the Greeks and Romans interacted in central and eastern Europe, north Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East. They are interdisciplinary because faculty and students in the department cross the boundaries of literature, philosophy, material culture, history, and religion to study the world of antiquity. Because of this, classics ranks among the most vibrant programs in humanistic studies at the University of Colorado, a department in which students at every level are challenged to integrate the world of scholarship into their daily lives.
The department is also one of the most successful undergraduate programs in the nation, with undergraduates claiming degrees with marketable skills that enable them to read critically, think analytically and communicate articulately.
I use what (Classics) classes taught me—how to conceptualize, empathize and recognize bias—daily when working and talking and reading the news. Part of a BA is the otherwise rare opportunity to learn about a field directly from world experts in that field, and the people in the Classics department are I think some of the best at teaching from their expertise. Even working well outside Classics, what I’ve learned from it stays with me."
— Jeff Jennings (BA '11)