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CLASMA - Classics

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Religious Studies and ClassicsGraduate Degree SeekingMA - Master of Arts

Overview

Program Requirements

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

24 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

Emphasis Coursework (6 units):

  • course: Narrating Memory: The Greek and Roman Historians (3)

One of the following:

  • course: Advanced Studies in Ancient History (3)

  • course: Historiography (3)

  • Approved alternative

Emphasis Elective Coursework

18 units of CLAS / GRK / LAT 5XX electives or approved alternatives.

Note: Students in this emphasis must have a minimum of 9 units from the following:

  • course: Greek Reading Course (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Philosophy (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Drama (3)

  • course: Advanced Greek: Homer (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Historians (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Poetry of the Archaic and/or Hellenistic Period (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Orators (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

  • course: Latin Reading Course (3)

  • course: Latin Composition (3)

  • course: Horace and Catullus (3)

  • course: Augustan Literature (3)

  • course: Medieval Latin (3)

  • course: Latin Love Elegy (3)

  • course: Latin Literature of the Imperial Age (3)

  • course: Cicero (3)

  • course: Roman Historians (3)

  • course: Roman Drama (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

24 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

Emphasis Coursework (6 units):

  • course: Graduate Readings in Theories and Methods for the Study of Religion (3)

One of the following:

  • course: Topics in Ancient Mediterranean Religion (3)

  • course: Early Christian Literature: Greek Texts (3)

  • course: Jews in the Roman Empire (3)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

18 units of CLAS / GRK / LAT 5XX electives or approved alternatives.

Note: Students in this emphasis must select a minimum of 12 units from the following:

  • course: Greek Reading Course (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Philosophy (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Drama (3)

  • course: Advanced Greek: Homer (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Historians (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Poetry of the Archaic and/or Hellenistic Period (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Orators (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

  • course: Latin Reading Course (3)

  • course: Latin Composition (3)

  • course: Horace and Catullus (3)

  • course: Augustan Literature (3)

  • course: Medieval Latin (3)

  • course: Latin Love Elegy (3)

  • course: Latin Literature of the Imperial Age (3)

  • course: Cicero (3)

  • course: Roman Historians (3)

  • course: Roman Drama (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

24 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

Emphasis Coursework (6 units):

  • course: Special Topics Courses (3) - taken twice

Emphasis Elective Coursework

18 units of CLAS / GRK / LAT 5XX electives or approved alternatives.

Note: Students in this emphasis must have a minimum of 12 units from the following:

  • course: Topics of Egyptology

  • course: Cleopatra: Power, Passion, Propaganda

  • course: Archaic Greek Sanctuaries

  • course: Archaeology of the Peloponnesos

  • course: Ancient Greek Technology

  • course: Archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece

  • course: Mapping Ancient Cities

  • course: Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Language

  • course: Etruscan Art and Archaeology

  • course: Greek and Roman Sculpture: Symbols and Society in Antiquity

  • course: Greek and Roman Painting

  • course: Classical and Controversial: Critical Debates in Classical Antiquity

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

24 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

Emphasis Coursework: Select 6 units from the following:

  • course: Greek Reading Course (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Philosophy (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Drama (3)

  • course: Advanced Greek: Homer (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Historians (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Poetry of the Archaic and/or Hellenistic Period (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Orators (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

  • course: Latin Reading Course (3)

  • course: Latin Composition (3)

  • course: Horace and Catullus (3)

  • course: Augustan Literature (3)

  • course: Medieval Latin (3)

  • course: Latin Love Elegy (3)

  • course: Latin Literature of the Imperial Age (3)

  • course: Cicero (3)

  • course: Roman Historians (3)

  • course: Roman Drama (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

  • course: Topics of Egyptology

  • course: Early Christian Literature: Greek Texts

  • course: Early Christian Literature: Latin Texts

  • course: Cleopatra: Power, Passion, Propaganda

  • course: Old Persian

  • course: The Ancient City as Text: Rome and Its Reception

  • course: Narrating Memory: The Greek and Roman Historians

  • course: Archaic Greek Sanctuaries

  • course: Archaeology of the Peloponnesos

  • course: Ancient Greek Technology

  • course: Literary Translation as Classical Reception

  • course: Archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece

  • course: Mapping Ancient Cities

  • course: Ancient Egypt: Archaeology and Language

  • course: Etruscan Art and Archaeology

  • course: Greek and Roman Sculpture: Symbols and Society in Antiquity

  • course: Greek and Roman Painting

  • course: Classical and Controversial: Critical Debates in Classical Antiquity

Emphasis Elective Coursework

18 units of CLAS / GRK / LAT 5XX electives or approved alternatives.

Note: Students in this emphasis must have a minimum of 12 units each of Latin and Greek Coursework (24 units total):

Greek (12 units):

  • course: Greek Reading Course (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Philosophy (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Drama (3)

  • course: Advanced Greek: Homer (3)

  • course: Readings in Greek Historians (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Poetry of the Archaic and/or Hellenistic Period (3)

  • course: Readings in Ancient Greek Orators (3)

  • course: Independent Study (1-3)

Select 12 units of LAT coursework:

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

24 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

Emphasis Coursework (6 units):

  • course: Issues in Latin Teaching and Methodology (3) OR course: Latin Instruction and Learning Theory (3)

One of the following:

  • course: Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (3)

  • course: Assessment in Second/Foreign Language Learning (3)

  • course: Second Language Acquisition Research (3)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

18 units of CLAS / GRK / LAT 5XX electives or approved alternatives.

Note: Students in this emphasis must have a minimum of 18 units from the following:

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Core Major Units: 10
Additional Emphasis Units: 24 (see emphasis requirements below)
Total Minimum Degree Units: 34

Completion requirement

Common Core (10 units):

  • course: Methods in Classical Studies (3)

  • course: Thesis Preparation (1)

  • GRK/ LAT 5XX (3)

  • course: Thesis (3)

Completion requirement

See emphasis below for elective coursework.

Completion requirement

  • Qualifying and Comprehensive Exams are required.

  • Thesis is required.

  • Transfer of Credit: Graduate credit from other institutions can only be transferred if the student was enrolled in a graduate program at the time the credit was earned. In any case, no more than six units of graduate credit are transferable. Transfer of credit will be accepted only if endorsed in writing by the Classics Department Director of Graduate Studies. No credit is allowed for courses graded lower than B or S (= "Superior") for courses taken pass/fail, or for audited courses.

Completion requirement