Requirements for the Classics Minor

Minor Requirements – 42 Total Credits

The Classics Minor is intended for students who wish to gain broad exposure to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world without required coursework in Greek and/or Latin. To earn a Classics Minor students must complete 42 total credits as described below:

Classical Civilization Courses – Required 18 credits

One course from each of the three groups below.

Historical Analysis – (6 credits)

  • CLAS 145: Ancient Greek Religion (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 226: 49 BC in Real Time: Outbreak of Roman Civil War (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 227: Athens, Sparta, and Persia (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 229: The Collapse of the Roman Republic
  • CLAS 230: Hellenistic Greek History
  • CLAS 240: Rome: From Village to Superpower (not offered 2025-26)
  • HIST 131: Saints and Society in Late Antiquity (not offered 2025-26)

Archaeological Analysis – (6 credits)

  • ARCN 222: Experimental Archaeology and Experiential History and Lab
  • ARTH 120: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia
  • CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 124: Roman Archaeology and Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 200: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture

Literary Analysis – (6 credits)

  • CLAS 111: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture Program: Myth and Reception
  • CLAS 112: The Epic in Classical Antiquity: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts
  • CLAS 116: Greek Drama in Performance
  • CLAS 121: Meeting an Anti-Hero: Philoctetes
  • CLAS 133: A Day in the Life of Classical Athens
  • CLAS 135: Critiquing the Gods in Ancient Literature (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 165: Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 214: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (not offered 2025-26)
  • GRK 221: Meeting an Anti-Hero: Philoctetes by Sophocles (not offered 2025-26)
  • LATN 232: Roman Republic in Code Red: Sallust to the Rescue
  • LATN 260: Catullus and Horace: Poetry, Pleasure and Politics (not offered 2025-26)

Additional Elective Courses – Required 18 credits

Courses in the general area of Classical Civilization (CLAS); Latin (LATN) or Greek (GRK) at any level may also count toward the Classics Minor. 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.


300-level Classics Seminar Course – Required 6 credits

  • CLAS 384: Food and Foodways of the Ancient Mediterranean (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 385: Islands in Time: Insular Life, Culture, and History in the Mediterranean World (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 386: Classical Myth: Theory, Function, Afterlife
  • CLAS 387: Expectasne Patronum? Magical Practice in the Greco-Roman World (not offered 2025-26)

The minor in Archaeology will also interest many students who are attracted to ancient civilizations.