我们的学生与古希腊和罗马的文化融为一体，以更好地了解古典古代如何塑造并继续塑造当下。他们还建立了广泛的知识和实践技能：如何理解和学习外语和遥远的文化，如何分析论点，询问长期存在的假设，了解当代概念的古老根源，如何发展，交流和捍卫他们的想法。我们努力让学生参与有关价值，正义，美丽，力量和人类状况的长达一千年的对话，这就是苏格拉底著名的被检验生活。
Classics is the interdisciplinary study of the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds, their connections to other ancient cultures, and their continued resonance today. Classicists study language, literature, history, material culture, archaeology, philosophy, and much more, with interests reaching from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America. The discipline explores the full range of approaches to Ancient Greece and Rome within their ancient Mediterranean context, and the way that classical texts, objects, histories, ideas, and values have been significant for later cultures across the globe. Classics matters today because the modern world has been profoundly shaped by engagements with the classical past. Understanding that past in its full breadth and complexity helps us to make sense of the present, and to imagine possible ways of meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow. As an interdisciplinary field of study, moreover, Classics develops in its students a range of skills that are crucial for their development: abilities to engage with foreign cultures, to read closely, to understand events, and to trace legacies through history. The study of antiquity helps us better grasp our modernity. The Department offers two tracks of study for concentrators: the Classical Studies program affords wide-ranging opportunities to study the history, literature, and culture of the ancient Mediterranean, as well as the impact of classical antiquity on later periods, the Ancient History program explores the history of ancient Greece and Rome and their relationships with the neighboring cultures of the Near East, Europe, and Africa.