Undergrad classics for the A/B student

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<p>We know a Bucknell classics major and think that it has a pretty good classics department with 5 faculty (including two strong Latinists), an extensive array of course offerings, and its own excavation in Greece. Their students have gone on to strong graduate programs (Penn, Cincinnati, St Andrews).</p>

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<p>D1 was intent on a classic major and I agree that, assuming the Latin and Greek classes offered are sufficient, you need to cross look at history. Or in OP’s case, what’s available via the drama and art history depts and how any core requirements leave time for classes in those other depts. D1’s college was out of your geographical range. And, in her case, classics and medieval were a somewhat paired program, which also suited her interests.</p>

<p>You might look at Hobart and William Smith, <a href=“Classics | Academics | Hobart and William Smith”>http://www.hws.edu/academics/classics/&lt;/a&gt; and <a href=“Course Catalogue: Classics”>http://www.hws.edu/catalogue/class.aspx&lt;/a&gt;. </p>

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<p>What about Trinity College in Hartford?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/Classics/Pages/default.aspx”>http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/Classics/Pages/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Trinity also has a winter program in Rome.</p>

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<p>Wherever she goes, talk to the department to make sure they really run all of the classes needed to major, and that they are graduating majors every year. Some smaller schools will have a department in a more esoteric subject, have faculty and a roster of 20 or so courses in the catalog. But they don’t really teach all of them. They will teach the same four or five, intended principally as distribution classes for people in other majors. They don’t necessarily want anybody to major. I found this out the hard way.</p>

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