威斯康星大学（University of Wisconsin）于1848年成立后不久，该系被创建为该大学的首批学术单位之一。古典和古代近东研究系（CANES）在语言学，文学批评，考古学和古代历史上一直享有卓越的悠久传统。在研究生方面，该系提供古典和古代近东研究的艺术硕士和哲学博士。学生可以选择两种语言课程之一：古典语言和文学，或者希伯来语圣经。该计划的主要目标是使学生熟悉古典和古代近东研究的核心语言，历史和语言学方面。学生还将学习在这些领域的知名学者的指导下，在诸如性别研究，文学理论，翻译研究和古典接受等
Soon after the founding of the University of Wisconsin in 1848, the department was created as one of the first academic units at the university. The Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (CANES) has enjoyed a long tradition of excellence in philological scholarship, literary criticism, archaeology, and ancient history. At the graduate level, the department offers the master of arts and doctor of philosophy in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies - Classics.<br><br>The primary goal of the program is to familiarize students with the core linguistic, historical, and philological aspects of classical and ancient near eastern studies. Students also learn to conduct original research in such varied areas as gender studies, literary theory, translation studies, ecocriticism, and classical reception under the guidance of established scholars in these areas.