The Major in Classics focuses on mastering the classical languages and thereby engaging ancient literary works directly.  The close attention given to Greek and Latin texts develops in the Classics major an ability to think critically, examine and weigh words carefully, and communicate effectively.  Our graduates often pursue advanced degrees in Classics, Ancient History or Archaeology, some go on to related fields in the liberal arts, or attend professional schools in law or medicine.

Classics is the perfect undergraduate major. Studying the Greek and Roman classics puts one in touch with some of the greatest productions of humankind that transcend the civilizations that produced them. If your interest is literary, historical, art historical, philosophic, legal or linguistic there is something in them for you. They touch upon every aspect of human existence.

Seeks to put students in contact with the material cultures of Greece and Rome and peoples closely associated with them. Tools will be provided to reconstruct the ancient life-ways of these peoples as well as skill development in the interpretation of ancient social, political, and economic systems.

The Classics Department awards a minor for advanced studies in Greek to full-time, degree-candidate students not majoring in Classics.

The Classics Department awards a minor for advanced studies in Latin to full-time, degree-candidate students not majoring in Classics.

The Department offers a minor in Classical Archaeology to full-time, degree-candidate students not majoring in Classical Archaeology.

Majors and Minors are encouraged to participate to further enrich their engagement with and understanding of the ancient world. The credits granted for the field school program are Saint Anselm College credits.

For six weeks in May and June students dig in Roman bath complexes, and Etruscan shrines. The Department runs an excavation outside of  Orvieto, Italy at Coriglia.  This site date from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE and give material from Greek, Etruscan, Roman as well as medieval and renaissance Italian cultures. As part of this excavation, the Department runs a Field School.

Members of the Classics Department have been excavating at Coriglia near Orvieto in Central Italy since 2006.