You’re curious, introspective, and ready for travel and adventure. We’ll help you explore that world through classroom and study abroad experiences designed to challenge you.
You’ll research alongside your professors. Whether you’re composing your first college essay, learning to translate Greek and Latin, writing a research paper, or wishing to see and study ancient Greece and Rome, our faculty are committed to helping you succeed.
Supplement your degree with a Classical Studies minor. Studies who minor in Classical Studies are just as skilled at reading Homer and Cicero or interpreting the archaeological ruins of Pompeii as they are at writing computer code and managing databases and geographic information systems.
– Jeff Emerson '13
Jeff's StoryLearn more about our January-term courses in Greece, Italy, and Turkey.
Join UsOur students work side by side with faculty on compelling research projects.
Learn MoreOur graduates have careers in library science, finance, information technology, the ministry, management, writing, editing, and law.
Explore OutcomesExperience life as an archaeologist on an actual field project.
Join us– Dan Davis, Associate Professor of Classics
If you think archeological work is all kneeling in a trench, brushing ancient dust off potsherds, think again. As Dan Davis, Luther assistant professor of classics, points out, digging up artifacts is only about 10 percent of what an archeologist does.
Students from Luther and other colleges recently got their hands on the rest of the work during a field school in Greece, learning such skills as archeological drawing, site illustration, architectural and artifact photography, pottery cleaning, and ceramic analysis. Their accumulated work will eventually tell the story of Roman-era Kenchreai, the port of the great city of Corinth on the Aegean City.