The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures is dedicated to engaging in research that enriches the humanities, second language studies, and our communities - locally and globally. Our classrooms (online & face-to-face) are a place of connection, where faculty personally invest in students' growth. We equip our students to be competitive in the next stage of their career through high-impact education in language and culture. Throughout our campus and community, we foster linguistic and cultural diversity and advocate for multiculturalism.The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures will promote transdisciplinary cultural and literary studies and second language research. Our faculty and staff will engage in ongoing skill development to train diverse populations of students. We will cultivate a spirit of open dialogue and mentorship that unites faculty, staff, and students. We will set ourselves apart in the provision of experiential learning through accessible study abroad programs and local hands-on learning opportunities. We will build research and teaching partnerships with regional K-12 schools to serve local needs. Our department will lead efforts to recruit, retain, and advocate for Hispanic students to serve the university's mission as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. We will promote interculturality through collaborative partnerships across the university and throughout the community.<br><br>Whether you have been studying Classics all your life or are coming to it for the first time, and whatever your background, there is a place for you here. Classics is the original interdisciplinary discipline, and we like to think that it truly has something for everyone. We take Classics to include the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, the broader ancient Mediterranean world, and the civilizations - from ancient times right through to today - that they touched and engaged with. Classics encompasses everything from ancient languages, to literature, institutions, events, and ideas, to economics, landscapes, and material culture, to the peoples and animals that inhabited these societies, to the reception and appropriation of the ancient world in later periods. In studying Classics (including Classical Archaeology), you will also be joining a long and time-tested tradition; ever since the first universities were established in the middle ages, Classics has been the basis of the university curriculum. To this day, Classics remains a vibrant and vitally important field, a subject of international relevance for contemporary life, as well as an excellent foundation for many professions. It sheds light on the development of history, art, culture, law, politics, science, engineering, and medicine - to name only a few - and the role that Classical culture and its legacy plays in each of them. It also builds creative, critical, and inquisitive thinkers that stand out from the crowd and play pivotal roles in society. Classics offers us unique opportunities to make meaningful connections between the past and the present, as well as between places, peoples, and cultures. As you can see, studying Classics can take many forms and you will develop real breadth and depth of knowledge and skills in the process.