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I don't know, do we really need a whole department devoted to Classics (ie, Greco-Roman literature)? I feel like it can comfortably be out inside another depart

• irrational 5y ago
  Typically those getting a classics degree have to learn Greek and/or Latin. There simply is no substitute for reading in the original language. A ton is lost in translation.
• woodruffw 5y ago
  "Department" is not a fixed term between US colleges and universities (much less international schools): it can be anything from a single professor with a shortlist of classes to dozens of professors within a larger college/school of humanities. The very large state school that I went to had a classics department (and I took many courses in it), but it was probably only about half a dozen professors. Besides: "Classics" is a difficult department to fit within another department. It usually already has a few sub-departments, ancient Latin and Greek among them.