Academic Departments. Classical Languages and Classics Department Records
WFU's Department of Classics offers undergraduate students a major or minor in Classical Languages, Classical Studies, Greek, and Latin; it was previously the Classical Languages department. This collection includes the department's planning and administrative materials. The collection also includes audio reels of scholarly commentary and lab readings.
Biographical and Historical Note
WFU's Department of Classics offers undergraduate students a major or minor in Classical Languages, Classical Studies, Greek, and Latin.
Instruction in Greek and Latin languages and literature began when Wake Forest College opened in 1834. In 1859, there was a Department of Latin Language and Literature and a Department of Greek Language and Literature. Over the next one hundred years, the administrative structure and organization of the department shifted many times. After 1956 and the school's move to Winston-Salem, the Classical Languages Department formed. It became the Department of Classics around 2018 or 2019.
Currently, the department's central focus is the study of the ancient Greek and Latin languages and of the literature written in those languages. The department also teaches and facilitates research on broader cultural issues. The faculty advises students on study abroad programs.
Sources:
- "Department of Classics," Wake Forest University. Available online here.
- Ulery, Robert W., Jr. "History of the WFU Department of Classical Languages." Wake Forest University, 1983. Available in the Sesquicentennial Commission Record Group, Committee on the First 150 Years (RG29.3).
Collection Overview
This collection includes the WFU Department of Classic's planning and administrative materials from as early as 1985. The collection also includes audio reel of lab readings from 1976 and scholarly commentary, both undated and circa 1962, recorded on audio reel and compact disc.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Riley Richards , 2017 November
- Revision Description
- Revised by Ashelee Gerald Hill, 2019 September
- Revision Description
- Revised by Emily Houlditch and Meg Campbell, materials added, title updated, 2024
- Access Restrictions
- This collection is open for use.
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- Preferred Citation
- Academic Departments. Classical Languages and Classics Department Records (RG16.7), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.