The department also has a computer laboratory with TLG, Pandora, and Perseus. The Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory has a complete photographic archive of Aegean and Cypriote prehistoric inscriptions and related research materials. The department also has a large, well-equipped slide library with over fifty thousand slides and its own slide librarian and darkroom. The Battle Collection of plaster casts is housed in the Harry Ransom Center. The department sponsors archaeological fieldwork at Metaponto and Croton in southern Italy and at Chersonesus in the Crimea.
Participation is open to graduate students in the department.
Within these wide limits the only restrictions on possible programs are the interests of the student and the availability of competent specialists to direct the student's work. The department offers a joint program with the Department of Philosophy, and maintains close links with the Departments of History, English, Linguistics, and Art and Art History and with the Comparative Literature Program. No more than nine hours of upper-division coursework may be included in the program. Eighteen to twenty-four semester hours must be in the major program, which is planned individually by the student in consultation with the graduate adviser. By studying Greek and Latin the student automatically fulfills the department's foreign language requirement.