Literae Humaniores

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics at Oxford and some other universities. The name means literally "more humane letters", but is perhaps better rendered as "Advanced Studies", since humaniores has the sense of "more refined" or "more learned", and literae means "learning" or "liberal education". It is the archetypal Humanities course. The University of Oxford's classics course - also known as "Greats" - is divided into two parts, lasting five terms and seven terms respectively, the whole lasting four years in total, which is one year more than most first degree courses at Oxford and other English universities. The course of studies leads to a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on first hand study of primary sources in the original Greek or Latin.