Alumni Perspective
“I chose a totally new path that began with a liberal arts education, which doesn’t carve a straight line to any job but makes excelling at every job possible.”
Rebecca Vande Hei Frostenson ’04, Director, Marketing Community & Communications at Microsoft
Classics, English Literature
Redmond, Washington
Unbagging First-Year Studies
Martyn Smith, director of First-Year Studies, unbags the 10 works being used in First-Year Studies during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Find Your Niche
If you don’t find your perfect research niche with one of your Lawrence professors, you can still have your research supported. Aasma Haider studied autism in a lab at UW-Madison.
Learn more about the requirements for the minor in Classical Studies.
Engage with Antiquity
Take advanced courses in the Hiram Jones Latin Library where you'll be surrounded by classical texts, Roman glass, terracotta, and bronze artifacts, and Republican era Roman coins. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with the Ottilia Buerger Coin Collection, one of the finest collections of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins in the United States.
Travel into the Past
Bring your studies to life by exploring the ancient world through one of Lawrence University’s study abroad programs in Italy and Greece.
Classics Studies Outcomes
The Classics program challenges you to develop critical skills and abilities for today’s fast-changing world, and helps you to cultivate habits of mind that can lead to success in a variety of career fields.
Placement & Language Requirement
Have you studied Latin before? Do you want to take further courses in Latin literature, or fulfill the foreign language requirement with Latin? Find out more about Latin placement here.
The best way to find out if Lawrence is the university for you is by visiting.
Your virtual tour starts at the Arch but be sure to check out Main Hall, to explore humanities learning spaces.