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Classics requirements
Explore the reviewed Classics major at Boston College, organized by requirement and course.
Foundational courses (two courses, 6 credits minimum): Classical Mythology, Greek Civilization, Greek History, Roman History, or City of Rome
Choose from these approved options.
Advanced courses (three courses, 9 credits minimum): Latin and/or Greek at the 3000 level for the Classical Language track, or courses in English at the 4000 level for the Classical Cultures track
Choose from these approved options.
- CLAS3315 Death and Burial in Homer's Iliad (and beyond)
- CLAS3342 Livy
- CLAS3360 Advanced Latin: Exploring the Martial-verse
- CLAS3391 Reading and Research II
- CLAS4242 Roman Religion
- CLAS3301 Greek Tragedy
- CLAS3302 Greek Rhetoric
- CLAS3320 Roman Civil War Literature
- CLAS3325 Lucretius
- CLAS3330 Aphrodite
- CLAS3333 Apuleius
- CLAS3334 Senecan Tragedy: Medea Nunc Sum
- CLAS3335 Ovid
- CLAS3338 Cicero and Sallust: <i>Catiline</i>
- CLAS3340 Latin Pastoral Poetry
- CLAS3350 Catullus
- CLAS3356 Tacitus
- CLAS3370 Roman Comedy
- CLAS3375 Vergil
- CLAS3382 Herodotus I
- CLAS3388 Sophokles' Philoktetes: Frauds, Friends, and the Fall of Troy
- CLAS4203 Everyday Aphrodite: Classics and the History of Sexuality
- CLAS4212 Ancient Sicily
- CLAS4252 Sex, Power, Gods: Ancient Wisdom Literature
- CLAS4254 The Culture of Athenian Democracy
- CLAS4280 Beast Literature
- CLAS3390 Reading and Research I
Electives (five courses, 15 credits minimum): any Classical Studies course, or approved electives from other departments
Choose from these approved options.
- CLAS1011 Elementary Latin II
- CLAS1021 Elementary Ancient Greek II
- CLAS1053 Intermediate Ancient Greek II
- CLAS1057 Intermediate Latin II
- CLAS2205 Greek History
- CLAS2208 Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
- CLAS2262 The City of Rome
- CLAS2294 Greco-Roman Egypt
- CLAS3315 Death and Burial in Homer's Iliad (and beyond)
- CLAS3342 Livy
- CLAS3360 Advanced Latin: Exploring the Martial-verse
- CLAS3391 Reading and Research II
- CLAS1708 Memory, Disruption, Hope: Literary Perspectives
- CLAS2290 Death in Ancient Greece
- CLAS2812 Continuing Modern Greek II
- CLAS4242 Roman Religion
- CLAS1010 Elementary Latin I
- CLAS1020 Elementary Ancient Greek I
- CLAS1023 Summer Elementary Ancient Greek
- CLAS1052 Intermediate Ancient Greek I
- CLAS1056 Intermediate Latin I
- CLAS1058 Advanced Intermediate Latin
- CLAS1063 Intensive Reading in Latin
- CLAS1186 Greek Civilization
- CLAS1701 Death in Ancient Greece: Achilles to Alexander the Great
- CLAS1702 Rome: Art, Regime, and Resistance
- CLAS1706 The Self and its Limits: Greco-Roman Slavery
- CLAS2206 Roman History
- CLAS2207 Greeks and Barbarians
- CLAS2210 Roman Spectacles
- CLAS2216 Art and Archaeology of Homer and Troy
- CLAS2225 Ancient Medicine
- CLAS2230 Classical Mythology
- CLAS2236 Roman Law and Family
- CLAS2240 Dangerous Women in Classical Literature
- CLAS2242 Roman Religion
- CLAS2250 Multiculturalism in the Roman Empire
- CLAS2254 The Culture of Athenian Democracy
- CLAS2285 The Chorus, Ancient and Modern: Forms of Communal Performance and the Body Politic
- CLAS3301 Greek Tragedy
- CLAS3302 Greek Rhetoric
- CLAS3320 Roman Civil War Literature
- CLAS3325 Lucretius
- CLAS3330 Aphrodite
- CLAS3333 Apuleius
- CLAS3334 Senecan Tragedy: Medea Nunc Sum
- CLAS3335 Ovid
- CLAS3338 Cicero and Sallust: <i>Catiline</i>
- CLAS3340 Latin Pastoral Poetry
- CLAS3350 Catullus
- CLAS3356 Tacitus
- CLAS3370 Roman Comedy
- CLAS3375 Vergil
- CLAS3382 Herodotus I
- CLAS3388 Sophokles' Philoktetes: Frauds, Friends, and the Fall of Troy
- CLAS4203 Everyday Aphrodite: Classics and the History of Sexuality
- CLAS4212 Ancient Sicily
- CLAS4252 Sex, Power, Gods: Ancient Wisdom Literature
- CLAS4254 The Culture of Athenian Democracy
- CLAS4280 Beast Literature
- CLAS2811 Continuing Modern Greek I
- CLAS3390 Reading and Research I
Source and limitations
Requirements sourced from Boston College University Catalog — Classics.
Applies to the Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year cohort.
62 courses across 3 requirement groups.
Requirement eligibility varies by school, cohort, and section. Confirm every degree requirement in EagleApps or with an advisor.