Exploring ancient worlds through languages, texts, ideas, visual, and material culture. Travel through time with us!
The minor in Global Antiquity offers an opportunity not found elsewhere in higher education institutes in Singapore: an individualised course of study on ancient societies, the development of “classical” traditions, and their continuing cultural significance. Ancient societies in South Asia, ancient China, the Mediterranean, and the near East developed enduring paradigms of thought that structure our ways of understanding the world.
The Global Antiquity minor trains students to develop tools of analysis for the ancient world with an array of interdisciplinary scholarly approaches. Students will seek unexpected connections across regions and periods, think historically, and come to view antiquity as dynamically transforming and globally interconnected through multiple forms of intercultural contact.
STEVEN GREEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LITERATURE
Our interdisciplinary faculty work in History, Literature, Philosophy, and Political Theory. Our vibrant community shares a commitment to philology as the basis for studying the ideas and cultures of antiquity, and reception of classical traditions.
CARMEN DENIA, CLASS OF 2017
I stumbled upon Latin early in Yale-NUS College. I then pursued an MA in Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music. There, I moved forward temporally to Medieval Latin and Koine Greek. I now work as a theological
CARSON HUANG, CLASS OF 2020
My interest in the ancient world began with Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. This sparked a continuous and sometimes relentless pursuit of the classical world during my time in Yale-NUS, which culminated in this minor!
