The Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo offers the MA and PhD in Classics with concentrations in classical literature, ancient history, and Mediterranean archaeology. The Buffalo faculty is well known for scholarship in a variety of fields, especially Roman archaeology, ancient religion, Greek and Latin epic poetry, linguistics, epigraphy, Greek urbanism, and gender studies. The graduate program offers training that combines specialization with a foundation of considerable breadth. In the first year of study, students are given the opportunity to strengthen their command of the classical languages, and to survey methods, content, and issues of the field as a whole. In the second year, students are expected to choose a special area of interest and to undertake independent investigation.