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Francis Dunn had planned to become a physician, but his pre-med courses were "dreary," he says. "I soon made the risky, but wise, decision to keep on taking subjects I loved, Latin, math, and Greek, and stop taking those I didn't." Classics is one of the broadest humanities, Dunn says, because it includes the study of art, rhetoric, politics, and gender. "Classical works grapple with profound issues of human experience that still confront us today, yet do so through a cultural lens entirely different from our own," he says. Dunn also describes the study of classics as "extremely rigorous," requiring a detailed knowledge of Greek and Latin texts and of ancient culture. "I encourage students to see studying Greek literature as a journey to foreign lands, because to understand a Greek tragedy you must be able to leave your own beliefs behind and enter the world and beliefs of ancient Athens." Go to catalog listing for: Department
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