Late Antique-Medieval Studies

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Professor Ken Wolf, coordinator

Amy Crown, academic coordinator
 

The  Late Antique-Medieval Studies (LAMS) major and minor are administered by the Classics  department.

Late Antique-Medieval Studies (LAMS) is the study of the Mediterranean and Near East in the periods known as Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, from the first through the sixteenth centuries. Late Antiquity witnessed the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the rise of the “barbarian kingdoms” in the west and the emergence and spread of Islam in the east and south. Despite the competing political and religious claims, the ties between the greater Latin, Greek and Arabic cultures that shared the Mediterranean basin in the Middle Ages remained strong. Not only did each of these cultures identify with an Abrahamic religious tradition, but each saw itself as an heir to the rich secular traditions of the Greek and Roman, as well as the Persian empires. Students of LAMS explore these fertile cultural encounters from a fresh, multi-disciplinary perspective with appropriate attention to the original languages: Greek, Latin and Arabic.

Like Classics, LAMS is a cooperative intercollegiate program. LAMS courses taught at any of The Claremont Colleges count as Pomona courses. Greek, Latin, Arabic and Classical Hebrew, one of which is required for the LAMS major and minor, may be taken to fulfill the Pomona College foreign language requirement. Courses taken on the Pass/No Credit (P/NC) grading basis may not be counted toward either major or the minor except for courses which are only offered on the P/NC grading basis.

• Late Antique-Medieval Studies Major
   
• Late Antique-Medieval Studies Minor
    
• Late Antique-Medieval Studies Courses
    

Read more about our learning objectives:
www.pomona.edu/administration/academic-dean/learning-objectives

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