Why study Classics APSU?
Majors in world languages at Austin Peay are all classified as receiving a Bachelor of Arts in World Languages with a Specialization in the target language, e.g., Classics, or Greek. The following courses are required for the B.A. in World Languages with a Specialization in Classics. The major consists of 30 hours of coursework.
Students with a Classics specialization will earn a deeper understanding of Classical Studies, Classical Civilizations, and the rich culture of the time. Courses include: Women in Antiquity, Mythology, Rhetoric, and many others.
What will I learn?
Our students acquire a firm understanding of one foreign language and culture, and will learn the rudiments of a second foreign language and culture. At a deeper level, it means that our students will acquire the skills requisite to learning other languages, and thus, they will become comfortable in the languages and cultures of other countries. At its most profound level, students can break down the barriers of time and space and can see the world through the eyes of previous generations. Consequently, instead of relying on translations for understanding the histories and cultures of various peoples, our students come into direct contact with the minds of others.
2017 World Language: Classics Specialization, BA
*Specialization options are not reflected on the Academic Transcript.
The Freshmen Seminar degree requirement completed by most students is UNIV 1000. The course is delivered in a small-class setting with like-minded students led by a faculty member and a peer leader. The interdisciplinary course is intended to support first-semester students and provide them with a foundation for university success. Emphasis is placed on student engagement, university learning success strategies, support services, library literacy, financial literacy, and academic and career planning. The first class meeting of UNIV 1000 during fall semesters is on Freshmen Convocation Day.
The general education core is designed to develop critical competencies in written communication, oral communication, mathematical analysis, and critical thinking skills. Students at APSU select coursework in the general education core in the areas of Communication, Humanities and Fine Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, History, Natural Sciences, and Mathematics. While the general education core requirements for graduation can be met by choosing courses from each of these areas, some programs of study require lower division courses that serve as prerequisites for upper division courses. Students should consult the sample 4-year plans and confer with their academic advisors as they choose their general education core courses.
What engagement opportunities are available to APSU students?
APSU fosters a positive campus environment that encourages active participation in university life.
APSU students engage in HIP curricular and co-curricular experiences that advance their learning and knowledge. Opportunities include first-year seminar, first-year learning communities, common reading experience 'The Peay Read', undergraduate research, study abroad, service and community-based learning, internships, e-portfolio development, and capstone courses & projects.
BA LANG with Classics Concentration Checklist
What Do World Language Majors with a Classics Concentration Do After Graduation?
So we all know how much fun it is to study these excellent languages and the cultures of those who spoke them, but what sort of gainful employment can one get with a degree in Classics? The answer is that with a Classics degree you can do almost anything you want.
Classics is superb training for Law School and Medical School not only becuase of the help with vocabulary but mostly because of the way you learn to think about the material. Business majors will find that studying Latin and Greek opens up the full series of Romance languages, and those are critical for doing business in Europe. Are you interested in computers or gaming? A double major in Classics andComputer Science will let you build more accurate games and apps! If mathematics is your first love, consider that the Greeks were profoundly good mathematicians and engineers, and very few scholars are studying ancient math. You could find yourself writing books on Apollonius's Conics! A recent major of our department who was a double major in Biology and Classics is currently in graduate school to do DNA analysis on ancient bone from digs in Greece. You certainly can teach, if that is your passion, but teaching is only one of many careers open to those with a degree in Classics. Ted Turner, owner of the Atlanta Braves, was a Classics major, as was J.K. Rowling the tremendously successful author of the Harry Potter books. What would those books be without all of the Classical Latin in them? So creative writing is another career path for Classics majors. History, art and architecture, anthropology, geology, physics, communications, really every area of human endeavor was touched by the Greeks and Romans. To study them is to study ourselves.