Ancient and Medieval Studies Sequence

Sequence Requirements

The Ancient and Medieval Studies Sequence requires 5 full-credit courses from at least three of the following disciplines:

• Art History
• Classics
• History
• Government
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies

CMC courses approved for the sequence are listed under Courses in Ancient and Medieval Studies .

Notes

• Courses must devote at least eight weeks to direct study of periods before 1500 C.E. to be eligible to count in the sequence.
• Students may count up to one upper-level language course in Latin, Greek, or Arabic toward their sequence requirements
• Courses may be taken at Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Scripps, or Pitzer Colleges.

Learning Goals for the Ancient and Medieval Studies Program

The learning goals of the Ancient and Medieval Studies sequence are:

1. To be able to distinguish key differences between the pre-modern cultural experience (particularly elements in the construction of identities) and that of the contemporary, modern world;
2. To develop sensitivity to, and facility for, identifying and discussing cultural differences;
3. To understand the origins of modern political, religious, intellectual and aesthetic life;
4. To better understand the relationship of material culture, technology and the natural world to “economy” in a context relative to the contemporary, modern experience;
5. To better understand the major differences between major periods of human history (ancient, classical, late antique, medieval) that are typically collapsed in an uninformed imagination;
6. To nurture a deeper understanding of geography and its contingencies in the human experience; and
7. To improve facility in critical reading, dialogic writing and productive academic discussion.