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My B.A. degree is in Philosophy. My school was a small jesuit university so most of my early classes were on classical philosophy (pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, some Hellenistic stuff) and medieval philosophy (Augustine, Aquinas, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Anselm, Averroes). Later courses were modern philosophy, existentialism, Foucault, Heidegger, and philosophy of science. I didn't really get much exposure to the more contemporary side of analytical and continental philosophy until after graduating.
Wittgenstein, like many philosophers who deal with language, is fairly convoluted in his writing style. It's rather necessary to be so complex it order to avoid the very confusion he is addressing. I think the whole 'ordinary language' tradition is wrong-headed, in this sense.
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