Classics Department

悃<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-16" /> <meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive" /> <title>PhD in Classics</title> </head> <body> <h3 align="center">Concentration in Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics</h3> Graduate applicants to the Field of Classics whose primary interest is in the Greek and Latin languages per se may choose to pursue the Concentration in Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics. Students presenting themselves for admission to this course of study should mention it in their application to the Graduate School and include a relevant writing sample. Upon admission, students concentrating in Greek and Latin languages and linguistics will be advised by the First-Year Committee (see above) in consultation with other relevant members of the Graduate Faculty. In the course of their first year of study, students choosing this curriculum will each select a Special Committee (see above) that includes at least one member of the Field of Classics who is also a member of the Field of Linguistics and two additional members of the Field of Classics. This committee will guide language and linguistics concentrators through a four-part program of study: A. The acquisition of a broad background in general linguistics; Greek, Latin, and Indo-European linguistics; and Greek and Latin philology. The aim is to achieve the level of training that would be gained from course work comprising: <blockquote> 1. Four 400- or 600- level non-linguistics Classics courses, 2. One semester of advanced Greek composition and one of advanced Latin composition, 3. Four semesters of 400- or 600- level Greek and Latin languages and linguistics courses, 4. Two semesters of Sanskrit, 5. One semester of introductory Indo-European linguistics (e.g. Linguistics 631), 6. Two semesters chosen from: <blockquote> a. Linguistics 632 (Indo-European Seminar) b. Linguistics 634-635 (Indo-European Workshop), and </blockquote> 7. One semester of introductory phonological theory (e.g. Linguistics 301) and one of syntactic theory (e.g. Linguistics 303). </blockquote> B. The "Q" Examination (see above), a written translation exam based on the common reading list and part of the <a href="LingList.asp">reading list of Greek and Latin texts specific to the concentration</a>. C. The "A" Examination (to be taken by the beginning of the seventh semester), which will be set by the committee and have two parts: <ol> <li>A written examination in three areas, one of which must be Greek and Latin linguistics. The Field recommends that the other two be either Greek literature and Latin literature or Indo-European linguistics and Greek or Latin literature. </li> <li>An oral examination that will follow up on the questions asked in the written portion. </li> </ol> D. The presentation and defense ("B" Examination) of a doctoral thesis. </body> </html>

All items pictured above are from Cornell's Classics Collections

Department of Classics
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-3201

Monday - Friday
8:30am - 5:00pm

Telephone:
(607) 255-3354
(607) 255-7471
Fax:
(607) 254-8899
E-mail:kn59@cornell.edu