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Haedus

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    2020 Fall
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    Classics MA/PhD

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  1. Not to be discouraging but most of the best Classical Archaeology programs expect language skills near if not entirely equal to philology/Ancient History students. It might be useful to take a year within a Classics post-bac program (UPenn, UCLA, Georgetown, UNC-Chapel Hill to name a few) in order to get an intensive in both languages. However these programs are costly and aren't funded so that can be a major turn off. Additionally, getting some intensive language training would definitely open up the pool of schools that you could consider and the positions that you could find yourself in. You can really only get so far (not very) in any classics derived field by ignoring the languages regardless of whether they're your primary interest.
  2. I don't think there is really a lacking of people interested broadly in Greek history though if you narrowed down that interest you might be able to narrow down your list of potential schools. At my current program (CU Boulder Classics M.A.) there is Peter Hunt who does Greek History though again I don't know if his particular flavour is yours. https://www.colorado.edu/classics/peter-hunt . During my time at the Classics Post-Bacc at UPenn there were a few students from the Ancient History PhD at Penn who were from the CU-Boulder Classics MA which might give some indication of its potential for placement. Obviously this is a single example, but hopefully it's somewhat useful.
  3. It's really difficult to give any useful response in terms of program strength to this because it really is entirely dependent on your personal research interests. That said, a full stipend with a TAship is a really generous and pretty uncommon offer for MA programs so it might be worth considering. One of the brighter PhD. students at my school (Penn) got his MA from UKan and says its great, for what that is worth. Regarding the other MA programs I simply don't have the experience to comment.
  4. Not necessarily. Often times schools send earlier offers to obvious frontrunner candidates. Additionally, there is the possibility of being waitlisted which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
  5. Sorry that this is a bit late as I just now posted on the results page, I received an acceptance email from CU-Boulder (Classics MA) on the 23rd last month. I know nothing about their full decisions timeline but perhaps this info might be useful to you.
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