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.