Texas Senior Classical League

Welcome to the TXSCL —

THE TEXAS SENIOR CLASSICAL LEAGUE

Hello! We are a chapter of the National Senior Classical League, the college-level affiliate of the National Junior Classical League (NJCL). As the sister organization of the TSJCL, we encourage exploration of the Classics beyond the high-school level and often volunteer at local, state, and national conventions. Join us in keeping the JCL spirit alive! 🙂

Community

The TXSCL is an accepting community of diverse individuals who have a shared interest in Classical Studies.

Volunteering

Want to help out at local, state, and/or national JCL Conventions? The TXSCL helps run events such as Ludi, Olympika, and more!

Why Study Classics in College?

Classical studies can provide unique insights into how we interact with the world around us. Furthermore, Latin and Greek commonly influence languages spoken around the world, making them useful foundations for global communications.

In short, the Classics are diverse! Classical studies have wide applications and encapsulates a plethora of super interesting topics. Read what various institutions say about Classics:

Classics students have among the highest scores on GREs of all undergraduate majors. Classics majors also have a very high success rate in applications to graduate schools, law schools, and medical schools. This is perhaps because the skills and knowledge acquired through the study of Classics are highly transferable to other areas: students emerge with the ability to deal with precise details, the habit of being consistently prepared to perform, and the sense of perspective that comes from the study of such a long and broad sweep of history and culture." — Carleton College
Classics majors learn to analyze; they reason clearly and write well. They have a broad and synthetic view of the past, and this translated readily when they find themselves in any new situation… Classics is not a narrow but a broad field, and it allows us to branch out in many ways.” — Wheaton College
How can the study of the past help me obtain a job in the future? Unlike many other degrees offered at most colleges and universities, Classics is the ideal model of an interdisciplinary degree. Since Classicists approach the study of the past from a vast array of perspectives, our intellectual toolkit [is] large.” — Luther College
The Classics major is one of the most superb instruments in the liberal arts panoply, both as a means towards general human cultivation and as a path to many academic careers… A Classics major is so quintessential an experience of the liberal arts because it includes a) extremely rigorous technical training, b) immersion in superb literature and art, c) sophisticated historical, philosophical, and theological study. The field of Classics, perhaps the oldest of academic fields, is also from a modern point of view the most experimental and novel in that it has always been an essentially interdisciplinary field…” — Carleton College