Classics & Mediterranean Studies Major
Courses in the 101-105 series are taught entirely in English. In the Greek, Latin, and Biblical Hebrew courses, our focus, unlike that of modern language sections, is almost entirely on reading the language. All classes are conducted in English.
Prospective majors will find that each semester only one course is offered in 200-level Greek and one in 200-level Latin. The courses are rotated on three- and four-year schedules, respectively, to ensure that the student does not encounter the same course twice.
Classics, the original "area study", has recently been expanded at UConn to include the Mediterranean, the Near Eastern, and the Biblical worlds. The newly redesigned major and minor in "Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies" covers all aspects of the ancient world � not only the languages and literatures (including Biblical Hebrew), with which our section is primarily concerned, but also history, philosophy, art, archeology, etc. Accordingly, several courses in other departments have been approved for cross-listing under Classics and may be counted toward the major in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. These are:
Classics 243 World of Late Antiquity ( = History 217)
Classics 244 Ancient Fictions
Classics 251 Greek Art ( = Art History 243)
Classics 252 Roman Art ( = Art History 246)
Classics 253 The Ancient Near East ( = History 213)
Classics 254 Ancient Greece ( = History 214)
Classics 255 Ancient Rome ( = History 216)
Classics 256 Palestine Under the Greeks and Romans ( = History and Hebrew 218)
Classics 257 Ancient Philosophy ( = Philosophy 221)
Hebrew / Judaic Studies 201 Selected Books of the Hebrew Bible
Interdepartmental 294 The Bible
Interdepartmental 222-05 LTL: Introduction to Biblical Languages
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