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Classical Studies Home  Undergraduate Program Classical Studies
Major Requirements
Prerequisite for the Major
A prerequisite for the classical studies major is the lower-division sequence in elementary Greek or Latin language (Greek 1 and 2 or Latin 1 and 2).
Course Requirements
The major requires a total of ten courses plus a senior comprehensive exam and must include the following:
- one lower-division survey of ancient history or literature in translation;
- three upper-division courses in Greek or Latin;
- six additional approved upper-division courses (which may include courses in Greek or Latin language);
- Enrollment in a 2-credit comprehensive examination preparatory course, History 199F, is required in the same quarter that the senior oral examination will be given. The preparatory course will be taken with the chair of the student's examination committee.
Senior Comprehensive Exam and Senior Check
As fulfillment of the University Senior Comprehensive requirement in the major, Classical Studies majors are required to pass a comprehensive examination. Each student shall identify three classical studies faculty members to serve on the examination committee, one of which shall be designated as the committee chair.
One quarter prior to the exam, all Classical Studies majors are required to complete a Senior Check. Students must indicate their final degree plan on the Senior Check and submit it to their committee chair for review. With the assistance of the committee chair, all students will also complete a Petition for Undergraduate Individual Studies at this time (form available at the History Department Office, Humanities 201).
The purpose of completing the Senior Check and Petition for Undergraduate Individual Studies is to ensure that all students are on track to finish the major requirements by their graduation quarter and to obtain enrollment in HIS 199F.
The Senior Check and Petition for Undergraduate Individual Studies must be submitted to the History Department Office during Drop-In Advising Hours. The undergraduate adviser will issue an enrollment code for HIS 199F at this time. Both forms must be completed in entirety and approved by the committee chair before an enrollment code will be issued.
Minor Requirements
A minor in classical studies requires the lower-division sequence in elementary Greek or Latin language (Greek 1 and 2 or Latin 1 and 2) and Greek or Latin Literature 100 plus any four of the upper-division courses listed as satisfying the classical studies major requirements.
Pre-Approved Courses for Classical Studies
These are the courses that have been approved to count for the Classical Studies major and minor:
History:
5B, Early Christianity First - Fourth Century AD
62A, Classsical World: Greece
62B, Classical World: Rome
160A, Athenian Democracy
161B, Topics in Roman History
196R, Social World of Roman Palestine
196S, Special Topics in Ancient History
His 161B and 196S may be repeated for credit, with instructor's permission.
History of Art and Visual Culture:
80E, Ancient Mediterranean Visual Cultures
140A, The Power of Images in the Roman World
153, History of the Book
191G, New Texts for Old Greek Pots
Literature:
61M, Approaches to Classical Myth
Any course in Greek Literature (LTGR) or Latin Literature (LTIN)
Pre- and Early-Modern (LTPR):
102, Ancient Literature in Cross-Cultural Perspective
107A, Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphs
111, Monsters, Barbarians, and Women: Topics in Ancient Ethnography
115, The Heroic Epic
121, Ancient Novel
124, Hebrew Bible
127, Jewish Mystical Texts
Philosophy:
91, Ancient Greek Philosophy
190A, Topics in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Politics:
105A, Ancient Political Thought
Any course in Latin Language and Greek Language may be used.
Other courses may be considered by petition only and must be approved by a faculty adviser. Refer to the Course Substitution Page for more information.
Declaration of Major or Minor Procedure
(See Academic and Administrative Calendar for declaration of major/minor deadlines.)
- Pick up two forms:
- A declaration of major/minor form at advising.ucsc.edu. Make sure that Section 1 (monitoring of completed GEs) is completed with your college adviser.
- A Classical Studies major or minor planning worksheet, available at the History Department or online.
- Meet with one of the classical studies faculty advisers to plan an individualized program of study. Obtain your faculty adviser's signature in Section II of the declaration of major/minor form and on your major or minor planning worksheet.
- Go to the History Department with your signed declaration of major form and your major or minor planning worksheet. The undergraduate adviser will complete Section III. If no further advising from other departments is required, the adviser will then forward the completed declaration to the Registrar, your college office, and second department of study (when applicable).
Classical Studies Faculty Advisers
Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
228 Cowell College • 459-2586 • bassi@ucsc.edu
Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
329 Humanites 1• 459-4127 • mkgamel@ucsc.edu
Charles W. Hedrick Jr., Professor of History
242 Cowell College • 459-2727 • hedrick@ucsc.edu
Associated Faculty and Professional Interests
- Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Greek and Latin literatures, Greek drama, Hellenistic poetics, feminist interpretation,
literary and cultural theory, pre- and early modern studies, historiography
- Janina Darling, Lecturer
Visual culture of the Ancient Mediterrean (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome), Pompeian studies, food and wine in Greece and Rome
- Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literature,
myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, feminist
approaches to literature and performance
- Gildas Hamel, Lecturer
French history and culture, Celtic languages and literatures, history of Judaism and early Christianity
- Charles W. Hedrick Jr., Professor of History
Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, historiography, political theory
- John P. Lynch, Professor of Literature, Emeritus
Greek and Latin literatures; Plato and Aristotle; Lucretius, Virgil, and Petronius; ancient education
- Gary B. Miles, Professor of History, Emeritus
- Daniel L. Selden, Associate Professor of Literature
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
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