What is the difference between a certificate program in this department and a traditional classics “postbac”?
The certificate programs at CUA are graduate-level programs. They serve not only post-BA students interested in starting graduate school in the future, but also students who are already pursuing graduate degrees. As such, they involve graduate-level coursework, and confer (for 511 or “approved advanced” language courses) graduate-level credit. Coursework completed as part of a CUA certificate program can therefore be easily transferred to a graduate program at CUA or elsewhere–depending, of course, upon the limitations, rules, and expectations of the destination department or school. Students using a language certificate program as a classics “postbac” will have graduate students as classmates in many of their courses.
