Diploma of Classical Languages
Sydney, Australia
Diploma
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Diploma of Classical Languages at Campion College teaches Latin and Ancient Greek, enabling direct access to primary texts of the Western tradition. You’ll study grammar, philology, rhetoric and translation to develop textual analysis, critical thinking, linguistic insight and cultural literacy. The course complements Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts and helps you trace origins of modern ideas while improving communication and argumentation skills.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles in education, translation, publishing, library and archival work, cultural heritage, academic research and digital humanities. Typical pathways include secondary teacher, translator/editor, archivist/librarian, researcher, heritage officer, or content specialist.
The Diploma of Classical Languages complements the Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts. Students who enrol in the course will learn the languages in which the Western Tradition was originally articulated and expressed and thus access the texts in their original language, free from the interpretations of translation.
Latin and Ancient Greek are far from being ‘dead languages’. They are very much alive in our modern languages and culture. The benefits deriving from the study of classical languages are various, as they enable students to develop a variety of intellectual and practical skills. For instance, how to appreciate the value of and learn from foreign languages and remote cultures; how to engage critically with texts and ideas which stand at the beginning of longstanding literary, philosophical and historiographical traditions, and problematize them; how to analyse and question time-honoured beliefs, axioms and theories, and identify the origins and trace the genealogies of modern concepts; how to articulate, communicate, and defend one’s own ideas by gaining mastery of the ancient art of rhetoric.
Language is how human beings interact with one another and in which they configure and articulate their understanding of the world of experience. Thus, by exploring how a language is structured, one gradually gains an understanding of a people’s worldview and culture.
