Department of Classics

The Department of Classics at Florida State University is a leading center of Classical Studies, with nationally and internationally distinguished faculty for both teaching and research. It provides undergraduate students the intimacy of a small liberal arts college, while providing graduate students the resources and experience of a large Research I university. With approximately 60 majors and 35 graduate students, the department is among the largest Classical Studies programs in the public university system, and it is designed to prepare its students for careers in the 21st century, with FSU Classics alumni currently holding positions in a variety of fields including academia, museums, professional archaeology, secondary education, business, and law.

The Department of Classics at Florida State University is a leading center of Classical Studies, with nationally and internationally distinguished faculty for both teaching and research. It provides undergraduate students the intimacy of a small liberal arts college, while providing graduate students the resources and experience of a large Research I university. With approximately 60 majors and 35 graduate students, the department is among the largest Classical Studies programs in the public university system, and it is designed to prepare its students for careers in the 21st century, with FSU Classics alumni currently holding positions in diverse fields including academia, museums, professional archaeology, secondary education, business, and law.

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Why Classics? Thinking About Careers

While our subject matter may be rooted in Antiquity, our academic programs are very much designed to prepare students for careers in the 21st century. Many of our students have proceeded to successful careers in academia, and today our alumni hold some of the most prestigious professorships in Classical Studies. However, grounded in a Liberal Arts tradition that emphasizes written and spoken competencies, critical thinking and argument-driven reasoning— the curriculum of our Classical Studies programs not only trains scholars of the ancient world, but it works to develop the skillsets and intellectual robusticity sought by employers today...

Graduate "with honors" as a Classics major

Open to all major tracks in the Classics Department, undergraduate students may be eligible to write an honors thesis and receive honors in the major at FSU.