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Classics
| Director of Studies | Mrs Natascha Hennessey (Faculty of Classics) | |
| Faculty website | http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk | |
| Undergraduate admissions | http://www.cam.ac. uk/admissions/undergraduate/ | |
| Course information | http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/classics/ | |
| Further enquiries | admissions@st-edmunds.cam. ac.uk |
The College has a number of affilitated and/or mature undergraduates in Classics each year. Students must be over 21 and most of our students are in their 20s and early 30s from a wide range of backgrounds.
Subjects are supervised by arrangement with lecturers in other Colleges and the Faculty of Classics. Teaching consists of lectures, language classes (as needed) and at least two supervisions per week. Classics can be studied as either a three-year or a four-year course. For the three year course, an A-level (or equivalent) in Latin or Greek is required. Part IA (the first year) provides a thorough grounding in the language and literature of the Greek and Roman worlds. In addition, students take two options chosen from Philosophy, History, Art and Archaeology and Philology and Linguistics. Part IB (the second year) offers students greater choice of literary texts to study, and the chance to study their chosen options in greater depth. For Part II (the third year) it is possible to specialise in just one area, or to select a range of papers from the forty or so available in any one year. It is also possible to offer a thesis. Students with neither Latin nor Greek at A-level (or equivalent) take the four-year course. The first year ("Prelim") is an intensive introduction to the Latin language. In the second year students take up Greek, and take Part IA, as described above. They then take Part IB in the third year, and Part II in the fourth.
Although there is no written test at St Edmund's, applicants for the four-year course may be asked to take part in a linguistic aptitude assessment exercise organised by the Faculty of Classics. This does not presuppose detailed knowledge of any particular language, but does involve a written component, and may involve staying in Cambridge overnight.
An information pack about Cambridge Classics is available from The Schools Liaison Officer, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA.