通过考察古希腊和罗马的渊源，经典提供了独特的机会来获得对我们的语言，文学，文化和政治结构的新见解;而古典研究则考察了古希腊和罗马的历史和文化及其对西方文明的贡献。在现代学科领域中，它的研究方法“—的范围是独一无二的–在该领域中，您必须同时是语言学家，文学批评家，人类学家，社会学家以及政治，宗教和艺术史学家这些古典文明提供了西方世界的文化基础，以及我们现代生活中许多其他元素的基础。在支持教师的指导下，学生探索古希腊和罗马文明的各个方面，并被介绍给拉丁语和希腊语，这使他们能够用其原始语言学习古代文本。经典
Classical Studies examines the history and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and their contributions to Western civilization. Classics offers the unique opportunity to gain new perspective on our language, literature, culture, and political structure by examining their roots in ancient Greece and Rome. These classical civilizations provided the cultural foundations of the western world, as well as the basis of many other elements of our modern life. Classics is unique among modern academic disciplines in the breadth of its approach to its subject — it is a field in which you must be simultaneously linguist, literary critic, anthropologist, sociologist, and historian of politics, religion and art.