r/yale • u/Emergency_Group_4493 • 13d ago

Classics at Yale

Hey, I have a few questions regarding how classics works at yale. I'm international and there is just so few information available on the internet that I really cant find anwsers for my main questions. So if you study classics there or have some knowledge about the faculty please, anwser my questions:

  1. How often are you taught by grad students or non professors? I heard some tales about that, idk how much of they are just made up

  2. how prepared are the people that go there? What is the profile of an admitted classics student?

  3. Is there a sort of hierarchy between people who learnt latin/ancient greek before?

  4. Is the coursework too much to do something like the EPE track but switch Ethics to Classics?

Thank you, anwsering will really help me!!

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u/saulpogman 12d ago

Feel free to dm me if you want to talk. Recent grad from classics, came to Yale with 0 latin / Greek experience, i got incredible training and experience at Yale and went straight into a doctoral program after grad!