Classics and Religious Studies students study the texts and artifacts produced by people living in the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean and areas further east 鈥 where the major religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism originated.
We also examine how those civilizations and their beliefs have affected our modern perceptions of the world, both within the United States and abroad.
We deal with human beliefs, emotions and interactions 鈥 and how to study these objectively. These are big questions about human existence:
It's all about the evidence! We examine what people wrote, the cities in which they lived, their objects of daily life, and even inscriptions on their tombstones. Sometimes we only have fragments of surviving evidence, so the challenge (and the fun) is to figure out how to put a partial puzzle back together to create an overall understanding of the culture.
At a local archaeological site. Around the World. Just a few places you might get hands-on experience.
Unearth new pieces of the puzzle, from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great.
Because questions of democracy, justice, power and empire remain unanswered, even today.
Their bodies are dead, but their voices live on鈥攆or those who long to hear them.
To understand a place as complicated as South Asia, one must understand its languages.
Romance, the Renaissance and Rome still resonate today, from comic books to science.
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