Post-Bacs, first and foremost, are self-starters, looking for an intensive and (relatively) affordable way to improve their languages to make themselves good candidates for professional training at the graduate level in the various fields that require facility with ancient Greek and Latin. They come to Penn to move their language to the advanced level, within a thriving, interdisciplinary environment encompassing all areas of classical studies. Entering students should have had two years (4 semesters) of college-level Greek and two years of college-level Latin, or have reached the equivalent level through intensive language programs. Four semesters of college-level language include a year of grammar and vocabulary and a year of translation classes, usually one semester of prose and one semester of poetry.