Students may enroll in the Department of Classics or the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago or in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern or the University of Illinois at Chicago. Each of these departments permits a student to specialize in ancient philosophy and to enroll in courses at all three universities. Participants also meet regularly throughout the year in workshops attended by visiting speakers. While specializing in ancient philosophy, students will satisfy the Ph.D. requirements of their own department. The Department of Classics and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago, the Department of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the Department of Classics at Northwestern University all permit students to specialize in Ancient History, both Greek and Roman.
Participants meet throughout the year for lectures and workshops.
While participating in the Consortium, students must satisfy the degree requirements of their own program. The library system of the University of Chicago, one of the largest university collection in North America, contains well over 5,000,000 volumes. Classics students may on occasion want to consult holdings in the Oriental Institute , the D'Angelo Law Library , or the John Crerar Library of technology and science, but most books and periodicals dealing with the ancient world are concentrated in the Joseph Regenstein Library . Classics has been one of the strongest parts of this collection since its first formation in 1891, when the University purchased the entire stock of a collection in Berlin that specialized in classical philology, archaeology, and science. In addition to current monographs, the Library receives more than 700 serials devoted to ancient Greece and Rome.