<p>i'd love to major in the classics but what occupations can you get with the degree?</p>
<p>it's been proven doctors and lawyers do better in med/law school and beyond b/c of classics. it teaches you to be analytical and better understand humanity in general. you could always go the professor/latin teacher route, but a lot of people in varied careers are classics majors. there's toni morrison and jk rowling representing the writers, and ted turner representing the bazillionaires. for more information, check out <a href="http://www.promotelatin.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.promotelatin.org/</a> it rules.</p>
<p>If you do theatre as well, you could be that deep-voiced narrator on school documentaries.</p>
<p>What other ancient languages are there included in Classics besides Greek, Latin and Sanskrit?</p>
<p>Egyptian maybe? I know Brown has Egyptology classes...</p>
<p>mm, yeah, but coptic/ancient egyptian languages are usually classified on their own or with akkadian (sp?) and ancient near eastern languages.</p>
<p>brown's dept. of egyptology is the only one in north and south america, but they're merging with the near eastern departments as well as creating a new archaeology institute (i can't remember details, i'll find the article though). the dept head is retiring at the end of this year too. a lot of changes...</p>
<p>Yes, I think Egyptian is almost always separate. It's a pity, because schools offering classics are so much easier to find than schools offering Egyptology/ANES. :)</p>
<p>suburbancowgirl- Please post the article if you can find it. I've been considering Brown, but I wasn't aware of all the changes. Brown's department is so small that I was kind of hesitant about applying next year. The changes sound great!</p>
<p>Oh yes, please post the article! I'd be interested in that too, although less so now that I found out I'd have to learn german to study Egyptology. Not so good with the live languages.</p>
<p>ehhhh sorry guys, i threw away the newsletter about it. bummer. i'll pass along any more info i can find!! the brown websites are no help at all. i will probably be seeing some people who know more about it soon, so as soon as i find out i will let you know. </p>
<p>Rabo- they do say they want reading knowledge of german and french, and i feel the same way you do. :/</p>
<p>Maybe if german didn't sound so nasty...I don't really mind the french, since I've already had some in high school, but german is just kind of blech. It does seem to be pretty useful academically though.</p>
<p>i've heard german's (relatively) not too bad to learn. i'd rather stick with the ancient languages though.</p>
<p>German's not that bad (I'm fairly fluent). I'm not looking forward to learning French, though. It seems much more difficult than German.</p>
<p>haiiiiiii, I was at NJCL 04. Go Richmond! Were you at either Trinity or Lexington NJCL?</p>
<p>Salvete mi amici! (If I spelled that wrong I'm sorry, my brains on overload because of a competition tomorrow)</p>
<p>This is so cool. Sorry I didn't know there were other people on this board who studied Latin. It's funny because I'm going to a regional conference tomorrow at 8 in the morning :( but I'm competing in the Latin Derivitives part so It won't be bad.</p>
<p>oh hey vampire. If you're from SOcal, we must have gone together, because I'm from Cali, too.</p>
<p>oops, vampielinred. Aren't you that girl from Uni?</p>
<p>I want to major in Modern Greek. My parents think I'm crazy, hehe.</p>
<p>what's classics?</p>
<p>Classics is the study of ancient languages and cultures. Generally, greek and latin and sanskrit. It's completely awesome.</p>
<p>I'd want to learn it. Would it happen to include the study of ancient Chinese language? They did speak differently back then, or would it just be included in Chinese language and literature?</p>