<p>Which university do you think is best for a classics degree, UCSD or UCI
or is it best to go to a cc then transfer to UCLA or UCB</p>
<p>Doesn't anyone do a classics degree anymore</p>
<p>UC-Berkeley is the best Cal school for classics. They currently have Prof. Mastronarde, the author of the pretty standard Greek textbook "Introduction to Attic Greek," which I used and frequently still use as a good review book. </p>
<p>I am not a classics major, at least not yet. I will be heading to college in the fall, though I have taken Beginning and am currently taking Intermediate Greek at the university I will be attending.</p>
<p>my greek class used "Athenaze," written by someone else (harvard, I think). Anyway, choosing a school b/c the author of a textbook is a member of the faculty is <em>NOT</em> a good way to choose a school. </p>
<p>I recommend researching the faculty (and the actual program) more carefully.</p>
<p>Prof. Mastronarde is a renowned classicist. He happened to write a great intro Greek book, too. And UCB happens to have a great classics dept. That is why I am endorsing it. </p>
<p>"Athnaze" is not the quality of Mastronarde's book, by the way. My younger siblings used it for awhile, and it only caused confusion, due to the vocab lists (not simply uder the vocab list section, but under text as well) and the fact that they were given little chunks of forms to dissolve rather than being given the full picture.</p>
<p>Another good book is "From Alpha to Omega" by Groton and May, profs at St. Olaf College. It is like Mastronarde's book, yet simplified and not full of linguistical termonology.</p>
<p>Berkeley and UCLA both have amazing classics department. I'm sorry, I don't know much about UCSD or UCI, but generally speaking, most people consider UCSD to be overall stronger than UCI. You should go to each school's website, find how they do on rankings, and talk to students in each department (as many as you can).</p>