THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA TRI-CAMPUS GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CLASSICS

UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego

What is the UC Tri-Campus Program? This new graduate program (inaugurated in 1998) joins together into a single faculty twenty five faculty members in Classics and related disciplines from the three southernmost University of California campuses (Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego). The Tri-Campus Program features an innovative curriculum and program of study that address the practical and theoretical questions confronting the Humanities and Classics in particular as both enter the twenty-first century.

What are the Program's Goals? The aim of the Tri-Campus Program is to provide an educational environment for pursuing a graduate career in Classics that is closely integrated into the main currents of humanistic and social scientific scholarship. The Program's faculty recognizes that today and in the future teachers of the Classics must possess and develop expertise beyond the standard specialties of the traditional Classics Ph.D. degree. Classics programs, in both large research universities and small liberal arts colleges, increasingly feel the pressure to break down the boundaries between disciplines.

To achieve these goals, the Program and curriculum are designed around five principles:

Study the ancient texts and objects in their wider social, cultural, and historical contexts.
Bring the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans into the purview of contemporary literary and sociological theory.
Examine the reception of ancient literature and culture by later cultures and the appropriation of the ancient world by the modern world.
Pay particular attention to the intersections of Greek and Roman society and culture with each other and with the other cultures of the ancient world.
Utilize to the fullest the potential of new computing technologies as tools for research and teaching.

These five interdisciplinary principles are embodied in the four Core Courses (Classics 200A, 200B, 200C, and 201). Graduate seminars (Classics 220) and reading courses in Greek and Latin authors (Classics 205) round out the program of studies.

Where do I apply? The Tri-Campus Program uniquely does not belong to a particular campus, but to the University of California. Students who are accepted into the Program may enroll at any of the three campuses. Because instruction and administrative functions take place on the Irvine campus, students will normally enroll at Irvine. If you wish to enroll at UC Riverside or UC San Diego, an application will be sent to you on request. Applications to the Tri-Campus Graduate Program will be reviewed by an admissions committee composed of members from all three campuses.

Where is the Tri-Campus Program located? UC Irvine is located five miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, fifty miles south of metropolitan Los Angeles, forty-five miles southwest of UC Riverside and seventy miles north of UC San Diego. In addition to its beaches, mountains and deserts, Southern California offers excellent cultural amenities such as museums, theater, dance, opera, and music.

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