The Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) major at UConn offers two concentrations: the Classics Concentration (including language study) and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Concentration (not including language study).  Since UConn can no longer offer regular instruction in Ancient Greek and Latin, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Concentration is the usual way to major in CAMS. All courses are taught in English.

Classics faculty are also happy to consider well-designed independent study proposals so that majors can take courses in advanced Greek and Latin. If a student comes to UConn having completed some training in Ancient Greek and/or Latin, these independent studies can lead to completing the Classics Concentration.

The major and minor in CAMS cover all aspects of the ancient world, not only the languages and literatures, with which our own faculty are primarily concerned, but also history, philosophy, art, archeology, etc. Accordingly, several courses in other departments are cross-listed with CAMS and may be counted toward the major in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. These are:

CAMS 3243 World of Late Antiquity ( = History 3340)

CAMS 3251 Greek Art ( = Art History 3140)
CAMS 3252 Roman Art ( = Art History 3150)
CAMS 3253 The Ancient Near East ( = History 3301)
CAMS 3254 Ancient Greece ( = History 3320)
CAMS 3255 Ancient Rome ( = History 3325)
CAMS 3256 Palestine Under the Greeks and Romans ( = History 3330, Hebrew 3218, or Judaic Studies 3218)
CAMS 3257 Ancient Philosophy ( = Philosophy 2221)
HEJS 3201 Selected Books of the Hebrew Bible

Please see our information sheets for the classics concentration and the ancient Mediterranean studies concentration for further detail!