杜克大学的古典研究系研究语言，文学，物质文化以及希腊，罗马和晚期古董的历史。在培养跨文化流利性和批判性探究的智力技能和方法策略的过程中，学生将学习这些经典过去的广泛知识，这是该固有的跨学科领域的核心。古典研究鼓励严肃地对待过去的复杂性并评估其在当前的地位。这两个专业的要求传达了该学科的学科连贯性，但又足够灵活，可以让学生在学习过程中不断发展自己的兴趣。
The Department of Classical Studies at Duke studies the languages, literatures, material culture, and histories of the Greek, Roman, and late antique pasts. Students develop broad knowledge of these classical pasts while cultivating cross-cultural fluency and the intellectual skills and methodological strategies of critical inquiry central to this inherently inter-disciplinary field. Classical Studies encourages serious engagement with the complexity of the past and evaluation of its place in the present. The requirements of the two majors convey the disciplinary coherence of the field, yet are flexible enough to allow students to develop their own interests as they progress through their course of study.