Requirements for the Classics Major
Major Requirements – 75 Total Credits
Core Language Courses – Required 18 credits
18 credits in Greek (GRK) or 18 credits Latin (LATN) above the 102 level. Please note that 101 and 102 do NOT count toward the 30 additional credits below unless they are in a second classical language.
Greek Courses (18 credits)
- 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
Latin Courses (18 credits)
- LATN 103: Introduction to Latin Prose and Poetry
- 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
Classical Civilization Courses – Required 18 credits
One course from each of the three groups below.
Historical Analysis – (6 credits)
- 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)
- HIST 131: Saints and Society in Late Antiquity
Archaeological Analysis – (6 credits)
- ARCN 222: Experimental Archaeology and Experiential History and Lab
- ARTH 120: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art (not offered 2026-27)
- CLAS 124: Roman Archaeology and Art
- CLAS 200: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture (not offered 2026-27)
Literary Analysis – (6 credits)
- 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 135: Critiquing the Gods in Ancient Literature
- CLAS 165: Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece
- CLAS 214: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
- LATN 260: Catullus and Horace: Poetry, Pleasure and Politics
Additional Elective Courses – Required 30 credits
Additional elective courses in the general area of Classical Civilization (CLAS), Latin (LATN), or Greek (GRK), two of which must be at the 200 level or above.
- Up to 12 of these credits may be from a related department (History, Philosophy, Art History, Archaeology, Political Science, Religion), subject to adviser approval.
- 300-level Seminar courses, if taken before the senior year, may count toward these 30 additional credits.
Classics Departmental Electives
- CLAS 100.01: Greek Myth in Antiquity and Today (26/FA)
- 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 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 103: Introduction to Latin Prose and Poetry
- 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)
Electives from Other Departments
Senior 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)
Senior Integrative Exercise – Required 3 credits
- CLAS 400: Senior Research Project
Additional Departmental Notes
The Classics Departments of Carleton College and St. Olaf College cooperate in a program under which students of either college may elect certain courses on the other campus. This option is especially appropriate for upper level language courses not offered at Carleton. Carleton students should register for St. Olaf courses through the inter-registration process.
The Minor in Archaeology will interest many students who are attracted to ancient civilization.