Classics undergrad at Univ. Cincinnati

<p>I made a post on this in UC subforum, but wanted to move it here. Mod can delete post in UC subform if needed.</p>

<p>I was wondering, does anyone have any experience with the undergrad Classics program at UC? I'm trying to figure out exactly where I want to go to school, the only prerequisite being I stay in Cincinnati due to family situation currently. I heard they had a decent Grad program in Classics so was considering wheter I should go there, or extend my search to Xavier, NKU, Miami, Mount St. Joe, Thomas Moore, etc. (just started looking, do dont even know if these other schools have a classics program).</p>

<p>What would everyone suggest?</p>

<p>UC has an excellent Classic department. Have no worries about the quality of the program. That said…</p>

<p>You may get some comments that might discourage you from going to a smaller school because of a percieved limited number of courses, particularly in upper level anguages. You should mostly ignore those comments for the simple reason that you will take at most 4-6 of them in your stronger language and 4 in the weaker language (assuming you come in with a pretty good background in Latin and/or Greek). Professors, just like students have wide ranging interests and while a course may be named “Latin Poetry”, one semester it might be Propertius, the lext Lucan, then perhaps some Vergil… Small departments (e.g. Miami of Ohio) know very well what their students have already studied and are pretty careful to ensure there won’t be any repeats within a 4 year period. If you do chose a small department, make an effort to meet with the professors before you commit; you’ll be spending a LOT of time with them over the next 4 years.</p>

<p>Last - if you’re planning on graduate study be absolutely sure to get what they call “reading knowledge” of German or French. Admissions are extremely competitive and the modern research languages are one of the first filters applied to applicant pools.</p>

<p>Good Luck - Classics is one of the hardest and at the same time most satisfying majors there is.</p>