Department of Classics and Humanities

College of Arts & Letters
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-6064

Phone 619-594-5186
Fax 619-594-1004

Arts & Letters 662

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The Department of Classics and Humanities was established in 1969 as the Department of Classical and Oriental Languages. The Major in Classics was established in 1971. Humanities began as an interdisciplinary program in the late 1950s. The Major in Humanities was established in 1986 and taken into the new Department of Classics and Humanities in 1990. There are also Minors in Classics and in Humanities.

Department Chair: Joseph Andrew Smith, jasmith@mail.sdsu.edu

Administrative Support Coordinator: Melissa Bolthouse, mbolthou@mail.sdsu.edu

Faculty offices: sixth floor of Arts and Letters (see Faculty listing for more information)

Burnett Classics Seminar Room: Arts and Letters 109, 619-594-8922

The Department office is in the southwest corner of the sixth floor of the new Arts and Letters building at the north edge of campus, overlooking Interstate 8. The Department shares its offices with the Department of Religious Studies. Visitors to campus may obtain parking directions from the information window at the Chemical and Geological Sciences Laboratory at the College Ave. exit from Interstate 8. (Campus Map)

Upcoming Events

Our Annual Adams and Burnett Lectures:
This Spring's Burnett Lecture
Monday, February, 2010
Christopher Ricks
Just Like A Man

Dylan and the Charge of Mysogyny