Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

About this programme

Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) is an interdisciplinary program that provides a broad foundation in the humanistic, cultural, and learned traditions of the Classical (Greece and Rome), Medieval and Renaissance eras of western Europe and the Mediterranean. Built around a small framework of core courses and languages, this program allows students great flexibility and breadth of choice to explore the creative, cultural, intellectual, social, and scientific legacy of the pre-modern western world: Greece and Rome, the Mediterranean, and Europe. Faculty in CMRS work closely with students in the program, inviting everyone into a dialogue with the past, one that endeavours to bring us face to face with the values of pre-modern people and, ultimately, with our own. This dialogue is wholistic and should be a source of personal revelation and delight as well as one that must reckon with the darker legacy of European expansion. Students will have the opportunity to choose cours