Ph.D. Minor in Ancient Studies

The Ancient Studies Ph.D. minor permits you to draw on courses from two or more departments outside of your home unit. You might choose to group together courses from different departments that focus on a certain period (e.g., late antiquity) or topic (e.g., social history, archaeology). Our program is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, but doctoral students in any IU unit may elect to take the minor. All doctoral students at IU must complete a minor subject outside their home department.

Our program offers a Ph.D. minor only. You must already be accepted into a doctoral-degree unit of the Indiana University Bloomington Graduate School, and should discuss the outside minor with the Director of Graduate Studies in your home department as soon as possible. You must also file an Ancient Studies Outside Minor Declaration Form with the Program Director. The Ancient Studies Program Director will normally serve as your minor advisor. When you have completed the requirements for the minor, you should ask the Director of Ancient Studies to send a letter to that effect to the Director of Graduate Studies in the home department for your file.

Course requirements

You must complete twelve (12) graduate credit hours of appropriate courses outside their home department. These courses must be in at least two (2) different departments. No more than three (3) credit hours of directed readings can be applied to the minor. No more than six (6) credit hours of language study may count toward the minor, all of which must be above the elementary level. The minor advisor must approve the particular courses that are to be counted toward the minor.

Grades

You must achieve a grade of B (3.0) or higher in order for the course to count towards the minor.