the classics & early christian literature major

The study of Greek and Latin literature has endured for over two thousand years, as Horace predicted when he wrote about his own poetry in Odes, III, 30, “Exegi monumentum aere perennius” (I have built a monument more lasting than bronze). Throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern age up to the nineteenth century, Latin in particular was the essential language of scholarship in the West. To study the Latin and Greek Classics now is to continue a tradition that, while no longer the assured possession of every learned person, still brings the student into a fellowship with the greatest thinkers and artists of the past in a way no other field of study can achieve. Ave Maria University offers a major in Classics and Early Christian Literature, with concentration in Latin.

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COURSE CATALOGUE
Classics & Early Christian Literature

CORE COURSES:

REQUIRED MAJOR COURSES:

ELECTIVE COURSES (2 required) :

the CLassics minors

Students may choose to earn a minor in Latin or in Classical Languages (Latin and Greek) to complement or enrich their major in another discipline. A minor in Latin or classical languages is especially valuable to students majoring in theology, philosophy, history, literature, or pre-law. Religious vocation, law, teaching, and journalism are some careers for which the classical languages provide valuable background. As in all disciplines at Ave Maria University, 24 credit hours (6 courses) are required.

Minor in Classical Languages: LATN 101 and LATN 102 Elementary and Intermediate Latin or LATN 103 and LATN 104 Intensive Elementary and Intermediate Latin, LATN 203 Golden Age Literature, GREK 103 and 104 Elementary and Intermediate Greek, and one course in Latin at the 300 level or GRK 203 New Testament and Patristic Greek.

Minor in Latin: LATN 101 and LATN 102 Elementary and Intermediate Latin or LATN 103 and LATN 104 Intensive Elementary and Intermediate Latin, LATN 203 Golden Age Literature, and three courses in Latin at the 300 level.