Department Life
The Classics Department at Vassar is small (four full-time faculty members and an average of six majors in the senior class). As a result there is plenty of opportunity for students to get to know each other and their professors. The opportunity arises not just in classes but also in casual conversations with others in the department, in faculty's office hours, and at the numerous social events and lectures that the department sponsors. Students form friendships with each other, but they also work together to educate the larger student body about the study of classics and why they like working in the department. Concerns or interests that students may have about what is being taught in the department, their preparation for a particular course, what summer opportunities there are for students trained in the classics, life after Vassar, graduate school, etc. are readily responded to by any member of the department. Although majors are assigned individual major advisors and a thesis advisor, students view all of the faculty and the department's administrative assistant as people from whom to gain information, good advice, and support.
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Department Resources
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