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Thank you for the information! That is a more substantial difference than I was expecting.

I appreciate your reflections on the subject. I'm glad to hear that Classics does value some interdisciplinary work, although I think that you confirm for me that some combinations are more valued than others. Personally, I think I'm left of even the cognitivist. The reduction of Classics education to grammar is frankly numbing. Apologies if that is offensive to anyone. But the historical contraction of Classics to an adjunct of linguistics or to the articulation of grammar - along with the professional bag-checking of everyone's grammatical facility - is dispiriting from a research side. (Yes, grammatical facility is paramount, but that has become the end and not the means). There's only one person outside of a Comparative Lit program that does anything close to what I'm interested in, and I have been told that he is discouraging his dissertation students from following in his interdisciplinary foot-steps. That said, I may not even do a PhD - or a Masters - at this point. With Trump president and a Republican controlled Senate and House - and a vulnerable, de-regulated market - I'm not sure if its prudent to do anything else but work while I can.

Does anyone know how much of a pay scale difference there is between teaching Latin with a Bachelor's VS teaching with a Masters? Because the US has begun its collapse, I'm considering skipping the M.A. and just finding a job teaching Latin at a high school. I know that there's a difference in pay for advanced degrees, but I'm not sure if its substantial enough to remain for an M.A. Does anyone have any insight into this?

Many thanks to both of the replies. I appreciate the nuts and bolts insight into both the PhD and terminal M.A. programs. I'm not going to take out loans to complete an M.A., so I'm glad to know up-front that some programs may have the unrealistic expectation that I might. I'd happily skip the M.A. but I just imagine that I would struggle doing both Latin and Greek (and prepping for German and Italian) at an especially expeditious clip. I would be interested to hear what programs value interdisciplinarity. Apart from Comparative Lit programs, I haven't turned any that would support my intersection of interests.

I appreciate the comment and feedback. I am in the same situation and have received similar advice. Classics itself is too conservative for my research interests, so I'm at a cross-roads. Frankly, I'm not sure what I should do.

I appreciate you pointing this out. I didn't look past the initial program description after I saw the first modern/ancient requirement. I would never have seen this.

My reservations with Princeton are that its a program geared more toward modern languages. I think that it requires 4 languages, only one of which can be ancient (for purposes of requirements and counting).

Are there any current comparative lit doctoral students whose focus is Classics (Latin & Greek)? Anyone who feels strongly about a program or wants to recommend one above all others? I want the philological rigor of a Classics program, but don't like the bloodless grammarian qualities of pure Classicism, so I'm considering Comp. Lit. programs.

I am an undergraduate at a state school interested in doing a PhD in Classics, but feel that I need to do a terminal M.A. My Latin will be better than my Greek but I didn't start Latin in high school, so I feel at a disadvantage. I also have multidisciplinary interests, which I think is disadvantageous. I have looked at most (if not all) of the M.A. programs and have strong interests in some. Specifically, Tulane, Univ. of Arizona, Washington & Louis and Notre Dame. For those that can speak to any of the above (or omitted): Are funding packages livable? What do you like and dislike? What do you wish you had known? Do I have to read Thucydides?