The Post-Baccalaureate program is designed to be as flexible as possible in order to allow students to take the courses that suit their needs and interests. All entering Post-Baccalaureate students work with the Post-Baccalaureate advisor in the Department to design a coherent course of study. This will involve a program of from one to three years’ work, depending on the student’s needs and previous training. Students may register for two courses (up to eight credit hours) per semester and may take one additional course in the Department as an auditor. They choose from among the undergraduate and graduate courses offered each semester by the Department (or by a related department). The only courses for which Post-Baccalaureate students may not register are individual directed-reading courses.
To qualify for the Certificate, a student must:
1. Complete at least two courses at the 300 level or higher in either Greek or Latin.
2. Complete at least two courses numbered 200 or higher in the language not used to satisfy requirement #1.
Note: 200-level courses begin in the second year of a language: 203 and 204 are second-year Latin and Greek, typically followed by 221 and 222 in the third year of study; see our lists of Greek and Latin courses offered regularly by the Department. 300-level courses are generally for students who have completed six semesters of college Latin or Greek, although talented and well-motivated students may sometimes succeed in 300-level courses after four good semesters of college work.
Students may also wish to consider finding a place to study Greek or Latin during the summer: see http://www.summer-classics.com/
Thus, students must complete at least four courses (each lasting one semester) in the Department of Classics at UNC. These are minimum requirements and students wishing to apply to graduate school will ordinarily need additional courses in the languages. For students entering with one year each of Latin and Greek, the minimum requirement will mean eighteen credit hours in one language and six in the other.
Note: students interested in Medieval Studies may, with the approval of the Department, substitute Arabic, Italian, or some other suitable language for Greek.
Enrollment in courses in the Post-Baccalaureate program is through the University’s Friday Center for Continuing Education, with tuition set by the University Cashier’s Office. Tuition is based on the number of credit hours. Tuition may be found on the University Cashier's Office website under "Student Billing." Post-Baccalaureate students are considered "Part-Time Classroom Studies Graduate Students" (formerly "Continuing Studies Students") for the purposes of tuition. Be sure that you are looking at graduate tuition per semester, for 6 - 8.9 hrs, for the regular Fall-Spring academic year, and not at the lower summer tuition numbers, and remember that two semesters' tuition will be twice that figure. Note that tuition is not normally set until early August, so interested students should check the listing for estimated costs of attendance until that time.
Post-Baccalaureate students pay only a small telephone fee, but since they do not pay other fees they do not have privileges such as athletic passes or access to Student Health Service. Post-Baccalaureate students are not eligible to stay in University dormitories and must find their own housing within the community. Chapel Hill, however, is a university town and there are many housing options.
There are no scholarships, fellowships, or assistantships currently available for this program. Some students may qualify for low-interest loans; interested students should contact the Financial Aid Office.