World Canonical Texts
The Classics as a department is clearly relevant to this web site regarding "Canonical Texts." And if World Canonical Texts is indeed possible as foundation, or at least as a portion of, an emerging discipline of World-Area Studies, then we should expect Classics Department cover similar things as it does for other Area Studies - and indeed it does.
Again, let's start with the course distribution (here I excluded cross-listed courses):
| Level | Classical Archaeology | Classical Studies (Courses in Translation) | Classical Philology |
Courses of Reading and Research |
Greek | Latin |
Medieval Greek |
Medieval Latin |
Modern |
Total |
| Primarily for UG | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | |||||
| For UG and Grad | 2 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 36 | ||
| Primarily for Grad | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Total | 3 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 72 |
Observations:
1. Like other Area Studies department, this is divided into Languages vs. other aspects. And like the Celtic Department, the Others' portion are mostly based on literary texts - with the small exception of 3 archaeology classes.
2. Modern Greek seems to be slightly out of place in this Department - but understandably so I guess.
3. I scanned through the course catalog - and the following authors are mentioned as course titles: Aristotle's Poetics, Plato's Symposium, Homer, Horace's Odes, Caesar, Senecan Tragedies, Tacitus, Waltharius.
4. Languages requirement for a PhD: Greek, Latin, German; French or Italian.
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