古典学系致力于研究希腊和罗马文化，并阐明和评估其对当代生活的持续影响。古典研究不仅仅是对希腊和拉丁语言的研究，它还可以使学生从时间和地点的狭och观念中解放出来。当代人在社会中的作用可以通过历史，考古学，艺术，建筑，科学，哲学，宗教，神话学，尤其是通过希腊和罗马文学来考察。古典研究构成了对文化的跨学科研究古代地中海，近东和欧洲。尽管它集中了上古时期，但随着新发现，新方法，新解释以及与其他研究领域的新关系，古典研究的领域正在不断变化。古典研究在许多方面为本科生提供了理想的教育机会，可以整合不同的领域和方法论
The Department of Classical Studies is dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman culture and to clarifying and assessing its continuing impact on contemporary life. Classical Studies is more than the study of the Greek and Latin languages, it can liberate the student from the parochialisms of both time and place. The role of the contemporary individual in relation to society can be examined through the history, archaeology, art, architecture, science, philosophy, religion, mythology, and especially through the literatures of Greece and Rome.Classical Studies constitutes an interdisciplinary study of the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe. Despite the period of antiquity in which it concentrates, the field of classical studies is constantly changing in light of new discoveries, new methodologies, new interpretations, and new relationships with other areas of study. In many ways classical studies offers the undergraduate student an ideal educational opportunity to integrate different fields and methodologies, and to study intrinsically interesting and time-tested topics in the literature, mythology, art, archaeology, history, and science of Greece and Rome.Ancient Greek is the language of Homer, Sophocles, Plato, and the New Testament.We offer a variety of majors and minors including majors in: Classical Studies, Greek, Latin, Greek and Latin, and the interdisciplinary major in Archaeology, and minors in: Greek Civilization, Roman Civilization, Greek Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Greek and Latin.