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| Why Study Greek and Latin Classics? http://www.nd.edu/~col/whyclassics.html To learn to READ and WRITE CAREFULLY: Classical texts are not easily accessible. They require repeated readings for even a beginning understanding and a broad knowledge of the cultures which produced them for a real appreciation. Sounds like work? Yes, but this is a toil that is sustained by constant association with works of remarkable beauty and profundity. Moreover, from this work, as from no other, students acquire intellectual resources that are applicable, indeed, highly prized in almost any profession or field, such as the capacity for sustained attention to multiplex detail and the ability to read and employ words with care, efficacy, and sophistication. It is no wonder that classical training has always been highly prized as the best preparation for the traditional professions o f law, medicine, scholarship, and the priesthood, and it takes no great imagination to see that this training offers distinct advantages to anyone planning to enter the professions that have developed from the contemporary information and communication ex plosions, professions in which communication skills are still of crucial importane. To understand LANGUAGE: Cultivation of a knowledge of Greek and Latin involves not only learning the languages but also their grammars, formal descriptions of the languages that are products of Classical culture and have become classical in their own right. The resources of phi lology, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicography, and stylistics are even applied in the more rudimentary stages of the study of Greek and Latin, and in time they become sophisticated tools for the student's understanding not only of Greek and Latin, b ut of any languages and literatures ancient and modern. To understand RHETORIC: Contemporary debunking of rhetoric is a mask that attempts to conceal the most intense use of it made since Classical times. There is no phase of modern life in which the resources of rhetoric are not constantly and skillfully deployed. If you want to s tudy rhetoric (and its handmaiden dialectic), why not learn it from those who first invented it and have remained its unsurpassed masters? To locate yourself within TRADITION: If you see as one of your educational goals alignment with or, at least, acquaintance with the traditions of high culture in Europe and America you should study the Classics. For 2,000+ years the women and men who have been the creators of this culture w ere, with few exceptions, trained in the Classics, and they made their contributions in imitation of, in competition with, or as an alternative to the cultural legacy of Greece and Rome. A classical training, valuable in itself, is an excellent preparati on for or concomitant to the study of history, psychology, philosophy, of other literatures, art, architecture, music, of theology and religious studies. To gain access to the sources of the FAITH: Greek, Latin, and Hebrew were identified in the Middle Ages as sacred languages because they are the conduits of Christian tradition. A major or minor in Classics is an excellent preparation for advanced study in theology, religious studies, church histo ry, medieval studies, etc. To help in your quest for MEANING: Classical literature contains abundant instances of brilliantly expressed paradigmatic understandings of human experience. These will delight and intrigue you as a student, sustain and guide you in mid-life, and be the objects of your contemplation in ol d age. The ethical and aesthetic strivings of paganism have been both an inspiration and a challenge to devout Christians over the centuries. To take advantage of an unparalleled EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: Our classes, with the exception of those of the more popular classics-in-translation and ancient history major courses, are very small, and the number of students majoring and minoring in Classics is, for a variety of reasons, limited. The consequence of this is that the faculty can give the students a degree of individualized attention impossible in larger, more popular programs. The advanced courses are taught on a seminar basis, with plenty of opportunity for discussion, for independent work and coll aborative work. Advising is the collaborative responsibility of all the Classics faculty, with constant attention to the needs and intellectual growth of the students as individuals. The benefits to the student from this are very great, for there is constant opportunity for close interaction with the faculty and the other students. We can provide, in effect, a highly interactive, individualized educational program. If you would like to talk about how the study of Classical languages, literature, and culture might fit into your program and plans, please contact: Professor Brian Krostenko(1-0451) or Professor Keith Bradley(1-7195) |
