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Doctor of Philosophy
The Department of Classics has its own library, with a full-time librarian and a separate archaeological section. The holdings, which total over twenty-three thousand volumes, cover all classical texts and most major commentaries, critical studies, and works of reference, as well as English-language periodicals. All current issues of classical periodicals are available in the reference room. Bound volumes of foreign-language journals, together with specialized monographs, are housed in the Perry-Castaneda Library. Students also have access to the Swenson Coin Collection and to the holdings of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which include a collection of Greek papyri from Egypt and many Renaissance editions of classical texts. The department also has a computer laboratory with TLG, Pandora, and Perseus. The Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory has a complete photographic archive of Aegean and Cypriote prehistoric inscriptions and related research materials. The department also has a large, well-equipped slide library with over fifty thousand slides and its own slide librarian and darkroom. The Battle Collection of plaster casts is housed in the Harry Ransom Center.
The department sponsors archaeological fieldwork at Metaponto and Croton in southern Italy and at Chersonesus in the Crimea. Participation is open to graduate students in the department.
Classics is an interdisciplinary field of study that includes all areas of classical antiquity: literature, history, art, archaeology, linguistics, religion, philosophy, and so on. Within these wide limits the only restrictions on possible programs are the interests of the student and the availability of competent specialists to direct the student's work. The department offers a joint program with the Department of Philosophy, and maintains close links with the Departments of History, English, Linguistics, and Art and Art History and with the Comparative Literature Program. A cooperative arrangement with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University makes courses in nautical archaeology and ancient seafaring available for University of Texas at Austin credit.
Master of Arts
Course requirements are thirty semester hours of coursework, including the thesis course; or thirty-three semester hours, including the report course. No more than nine hours of upper-division coursework may be included in the program. Eighteen to twenty-four semester hours must be in the major program, which is planned individually by the student in consultation with the graduate adviser. The minor consists of at least six semester hours outside the major field; it is most often Latin or Greek for a Greek or Latin major, but philosophy, history, archaeology, and linguistics are acceptable substitutes. By studying Greek and Latin the student automatically fulfills the department's foreign language requirement. The master's degree student has no formal qualifying examinations prior to the report or thesis.
Doctor of Philosophy
Admission to the Doctor of Philosophy degree program is subject to the approval of the Graduate Studies Committee.
Course requirements. There are no universal course requirements. One-semester courses in Greek and Roman history are offered in alternate years to prepare students for the history examinations. Students are further required to take two topical seminars and to designate a special field by their eighth semester of study.
Examination requirements. To be admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree, the student must pass the following examinations: translation in Greek; translation in Latin; Greek history; Roman history; Greek literature (a written followed by an oral examination); Latin literature (a written followed by an oral examination); and translation examinations in German and a second modern language. Students must pass the translation examination in either Greek or Latin by the end of their fourth semester of study and the other by the end of their sixth semester of study.
Students who concentrate in classical archaeology have more flexible ancient language requirements and special course requirements and must pass special archaeological examinations in lieu of those in Greek and Latin literature. Students with a particular interest in Greek philosophy may pursue a degree program under the joint auspices of the Department of Classics and the Department of Philosophy.
Campus address: Waggener Hall (WAG) 123, Phone (512) 471-5742, Fax
(512)
471-4111
Mailing address: Graduate Program, Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1181
E-mail: classics@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
URL: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/classics/
Chapter Four
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Contents
Chapter 1: Graduate Study
Chapter 2: Admission and Registration
Chapter 3: Degree Requirements
Chapter 4: Fields of Study
Chapter 5: Members of Graduate Studies Committees
Appendix: Course Abbreviations
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