Prospective Students
The Classics department at UD provides unique advantages you won't find anywhere else. Upper-level Classics courses here are almost always reading courses in Greek and Latin authors, read in the original language. If you scrutinize other programs closely, you will discover, perhaps to your surprise, that this is actually very rare. We are able to do this because so many basic classical texts are taught in translation extremely well by other departments through the Core Curriculum.
From this a UD Classics major or concentrator gets three plain advantages: (1) a more thorough training in the languages than is possible elsewhere, yet also (2) (from the Core) a more solid general education in classical thought and culture than is possible elsewhere, and (3) the conviction — which elsewhere is hard to feel, but which we think that young classicists value — that their field is not some arcane and marginal “specialty” but the core of the Core. For those reasons, we have a strong suspicion that, for undergraduates, there is no better place in the country to study classics.
— Dr. Karl Maurer