Graduate Studies
The Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative through Northwestern's Graduate School offers the opportunity for graduate students to affiliate with the Classics and Classical Traditions Cluster.
The Department of Classics at Northwestern offers graduate seminars, Greek and Latin courses suitable for graduate students, non-credit reading groups, events programming, and teaching assistantships.
Recent graduate courses include "Theoretical Approaches to Greek Myth," "Ovid," "Staging Greek Drama," "Thucydides," "Plato's Republic," "Historical Approaches to Ancient Political Thought," and "Stoicism." Other courses suitable for doctoral candidates have included "Aristophanes' Assemblywomen,"and "Homer's Odyssey."
The Department of Classics collaborates with other units and colleagues to support interdisciplinary graduate study leading to the doctorate in a variety of fields (e.g., philosophy, political science, comparative literary studies, religion, theatre and drama, English, German). In comparative literary studies, for example, a student may formally choose classics as his or her "home" department. Additional areas of interdisciplinary strength in classical studies and classical traditions at Northwestern include ancient philosophy, political theory, theatre and drama, medieval studies and English. A student interested in Greek and Roman studies and pursuing a doctorate at Northwestern in any of these fields (or who wishes to create a new pathway of study with another field) may affiliate with the Classical Traditions Initiative and enjoy access to all classics activities. The faculty in Classics has particular strength in Greek and Latin poetry, drama, Greek history and politics, ancient philosophy, visual culture, history of medicine, mythology.
For more information about the interdisciplinary fields of PhD study at Northwestern and other opportunities for graduate students interested in classical studies, go to classics/cti graduate study areas.
At present we are not accepting applications for the doctorate in classics.
