<p>I'm interested in sitting in on a class, or maybe contacting a professor...</p>
<p>Also, can any Columbia students give me insight about the classics program there? I looked at the classics website and everything, but not too much info there.</p>
<p>I'm not a classics major, but I took lit hum with Deborah Steiner, a mythology professor, who was absolutely amazing. She knows her stuff and is really personable. Also, there's a professor who teaches a comedy past and present course that's amazing (forget her name though...) where the course is half classics and half contemporary texts. If you get to sit in on a class, try to take Steiner's mythology course or the comedy course. I'm sure either will give you a favorable (and accurate) portrayal of the classics program at Columbia. Good luck.</p>
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<p>Her name is Elizabeth Scharffenberger. I took this class and really enjoyed it. Where else will you read Aristophanes and Lucian alongside John Waters and Kurt Vonnegut?</p>
<p>did Calvin and Hobbes work its way into the curriculum?</p>
<p>No, but The Simpsons and The Far Side did.</p>