Requirements for the Latin Minor
Minor Requirements – 42 Total Credits
The Latin Minor is intended for students who wish to deepen their understanding of the language and develop a fuller context for the literature and culture of the classical period. Students wishing to earn a Latin Minor must complete 42 credits of coursework as described below.
Latin Language Courses – Required 18 credits
Courses in the Latin language (LATN) at the 200 level or above.
- LATN 204: Intermediate Latin Prose and Poetry
- LATN 235: The Bacchanalian Affair
- LATN 237: Amor, Furor, Ira: The Epics of Vergil and Ovid (not offered 2026-27)
- LATN 243: Medieval Latin (not offered 2026-27)
- LATN 260: Catullus and Horace: Poetry, Pleasure and Politics
- LATN 285.01: Weekly Latin (27/SP)
Additional Elective Courses – Required 18 credits
Courses in upper-level Latin (LATN), Greek (GRK) at any level, or Classics (CLAS). Up to 12 of the 18 credits may be from a related department (History, Philosophy, Art History, Archaeology, Political Science, Religion), subject to department chair’s approval.
- CLAS 111: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture Program: Myth and Reception (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 112: The Epic in Classical Antiquity: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 116: Greek Drama in Performance (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 124: Roman Archaeology and Art
- CLAS 130: The Greek and Latin Roots of English (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 135: Critiquing the Gods in Ancient Literature
- CLAS 165: Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece
- CLAS 200: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 214: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
- CLAS 226: 49 BC in Real Time: Outbreak of Roman Civil War
- CLAS 227: Athens, Sparta, and Persia
- CLAS 229: The Collapse of the Roman Republic (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 230: Hellenistic Greek History (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 240: Rome: From Village to Superpower (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 384: Food and Foodways of the Ancient Mediterranean (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 385: Islands in Time: Insular Life, Culture, and History in the Mediterranean World
- CLAS 386: Classical Myth: Theory, Function, Afterlife (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 387: Expectasne Patronum? Magical Practice in the Greco-Roman World (not offered 2026-27)
- GRK 101: Elementary Greek
- GRK 102.01: Intermediate Greek (27/SP)
- GRK 103: Greek Prose
- GRK 204: Intermediate Greek Prose and Poetry
- GRK 230: Greece at a Crossroads: Homer: The Odyssey (not offered 2026-27)
- GRK 255: Euripides’ Alcestis
- GRK 285: Weekly Greek
- LATN 204: Intermediate Latin Prose and Poetry
- LATN 235: The Bacchanalian Affair
- LATN 237: Amor, Furor, Ira: The Epics of Vergil and Ovid (not offered 2026-27)
- LATN 243: Medieval Latin (not offered 2026-27)
- LATN 260: Catullus and Horace: Poetry, Pleasure and Politics
- LATN 285.01: Weekly Latin (27/SP)
300-level Classics Seminar Course – Required 6 credits
- CLAS 384: Food and Foodways of the Ancient Mediterranean (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 385: Islands in Time: Insular Life, Culture, and History in the Mediterranean World
- CLAS 386: Classical Myth: Theory, Function, Afterlife (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 387: Expectasne Patronum? Magical Practice in the Greco-Roman World (not offered 2026-27)