Director
Tom Benediktson
Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature, Dean

Advisory Board
David Cook, Theatre
Jacob Howland, Philosophy
Joseph Kestner, English
Paul Rahe, History
Victor Udwin, Languages

The certificate program in classics is designed for the traditional and non-traditional student who wants to acquire a solid foundation in Latin or Greek and to employ this knowledge in the study of the ancient world. Students must either have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or be in the process of completing a bachelor's degree at The University of Tulsa.

Certificate Requirements
Fourteen hours of lower-division Greek or Latin or equivalent, six hours of upper-level Greek or Latin, and 12 additional hours of approved course work.

Required Courses
Six hours of Greek or Latin at 3000 or 4000 level. (Prerequisite: 14 hours of lower-level Greek or Latin, which may include New Testament Greek at Phillips Graduate Seminary).

GRK 3003, Attic Prose (3)
GRK 3013, Attic Prose (3)
GRK 3103, Homer (3)
GRK 3203, Tragedy (3)
LAT 3023-3033, Advanced Latin Texts (3)
LAT 3683, Advanced Latin Grammar and Composition (3)
LAT 3991-3, Independent Study (1-3)
LAT 4991-3, Independent Study (1-3)

Elective Courses
12 hours, nine must be at the 3000 or 4000 level. Courses are to be selected in consultation with the classics advisor; courses other than those listed may be added for selection.
 
ARTH  3113, Greek and Roman Art (3)
CPLT   2013, Comparative Mythology (3)
HIST   2173, The Origins of War (3)
HIST   2313, Ideas and Institutions in the Ancient World (3)
HIST   2323, The Ancient City (3)
HIST   3313, Crises of Greek Civilization (3)
HIST   4803, Topics in Greek History (3)
HIST   4813, Topics in Roman History (3)
HON    1003, Piety, Wisdom, Eros and Spiritedness
PHIL    1083, Intellectual Evolution of Western Civilization I (3)
PHIL    1453, The Great Conversation I
PHIL/POLI 2083, Western Political Thought I (3)
PHIL    3043, Ancient Philosophy (3)
PHIL    3223, Nietzsche and Socrates (3)
PHIL    4143, Studies in Plato and Aristotle (3)
THEA   2323, Survey of Dramatic Literature (3)
THEA   3023, Theatre History and Literature: The Classical Theatre (3)
WS     1013, Women in Antiquity (3)


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