The Department of Classics is a friendly, popular, and thriving department with almost 300 undergraduate students and a dozen active postgraduates. Its Alexandrian Society, founded in 1887, is one of the oldest and most flourishing student societies in the UK. There is a strong nexus of student support including the system of Faculty Advisers who give help in the choice of courses and other matters, and a thorough programme of Quality Assurance, encouraging student feedback and ideas.

Acknowledged as strong in its chosen areas of research - it was awarded a rating of 4 in the last Research Assessment Exercise - the department is also one that gives a high priority to teaching. The department was formed in 1988 by the amalgamation of the departments of Greek and Humanity. (Humanity is an alternative name for Latin, meaning precisely the same, and dates from the time when Latin was the only one of what we now call the "Humanities"). The Department is situated in a corner of the West Quadrangle of the main university building, and all teaching takes place here or very close. The University Library and various other student facilities are only a few minutes' walk away. Just across the quadrangle is the Hunterian Museum with its remarkable collection of artefacts, many of them from Roman Scotland, and the renowned Hunter Coin Cabinet. The study of art and archaeology of the classical world, and of its coins and inscriptions and the story they tell, are a particular speciality of the university.

We think you would enjoy the experience of studying Classics at Glasgow. You would also emerge well equipped for the wide variety of careers for which employers value Classics graduates. Classics, after all, includes in one subject art, history, language (if desired), literature, material culture, philosophy, and society, and fosters a broad range of intellectual skills. The department's courses give excellent coverage of this whole area. The particular strengths and enthusiasms of the department include Greek and Roman art and archaeology, Greek and Roman drama and epic, Late Latin literature, the teaching of Greek and Latin to beginners, and Greek and Roman history.

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