<p>My son wants to major in classics. can someone compare with Yale and Princeton classic Dept?</p>
<p>I can't help with comparisons or even with an evaluation of the Harvard Classics Dept. S enjoyed Prof. Nagy's Core class, The Concept of the Hero, which, apparently, is a perenially popular class. Not long ago, I overheard a student rave about a new prof, Emma Dench; and prof. Kathleen Coleman, who was an advisor for the film Gladiators, is said to do re-enactment of gladiatorial matches in her class. I believe she's won teaching awards.
Hope this helps. If you go to the Department's website, you can check out the profs' profiles. You can probably do the same for Princeton and Yale.</p>
<p>marite you always been a great help and I appreciate it.
Is your son at Harvard now?
Do you think it is a good idea to take Greek online course for a Classic major to be?
Do you think now classic major is getting popular? I getting a feeling that many on cc are putting down classics as major. Do you think that this will have somewhat negative effect when decision time comes?</p>
<p>Yes, my son is at Harvard, but not in Classics!</p>
<p>I don't know about Greek online courses. Has your child studied Greek before? Carolyn who posts on the parents' forum has a child who studied Greek at CTY.
I believe many majors learned either Latin or Greek but not both.</p>
<p>Classics remains a very small major at most colleges. But I was told by my s's Latin teacher that Latin had become more popular in high schools and that there was a shortage of Latin teachers. When she retired, the school felt very lucky to be able to hire two new teachers, one to meet increased demand. Many math/science students are drawn to Latin because of its logical structure.</p>
<p>If your child is interested in classics, do investigate Chicago and Columbia as well. The provost of Chicago is a prof of classics.</p>
<p>Plus if you major in classics at Harvard, you will stand a good chance of being the Latin Orator at graduation. Harvard has 3 student speeches at graduation - undergraduate English, Latin, and graduate orations. Since there are only a few graduates in classics each year, your chances are pretty good.</p>
<p>There has been something wrong with my internet access to the forum and could not thank you early for your comment Marite! No my son did not study Greek before. He will ofcourse look in to other schools but Harvard is his DREAM!!
ske293 thank you also for your post. Good to hear that my son might have a chance. How do you know how many graduate with Latin major? Is there a list where I can find this information? thank you</p>
<p>It looks like there's about 10-12 per year. Actually that's more than what I thought.</p>
<p>thanks for the link but where does it say this (10-12 per year)?</p>
<p>look at the bottom. it tells you the total number of majors so divide by 4.</p>
<p>Shouldn't the number be divided by 3 since students used to declare concentration at the end of freshman year?</p>
<p>marite is absolutely correct</p>
<p>thanks everyone!</p>