Ancient, Classical and Medieval Studies BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules

• Case Studies I: Sources and Approaches in History
• Case Studies II: Independent Study Project
• Introduction to Archaeology
• The Archaeology of the Historic Period
• World Prehistory
• Introduction to Material Culture

Optional modules

• Introductory Study: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066
• Introductory Study: Early Modern Europe
• Introductory Study: Europe 1300-1500
• Introductory Study: English History 1272-1500
• Introductory Study: The Classical World 500-31BC
• Introductory Study: Roman Britain
• Introductory Study: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660
• International Introductory Module: Origins of Greek Civilisation: from Aegean Bronze Age to Archaic Greece (2000-600 BC)
• Introductory Module: Europe in the High Middle Ages (c.800 - c.1200)
• Introductory Study: Barbarians, Byzantines, and Beyond (400-814CE)
• Introductory Study: The United States
• Introductory Study: Twentieth Century Europe
• Introductory Study: Victorian Britain 1815-1914
• Introductory Study: East Asia 1900-present
• Introductory Study: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, 1783 - 1997
• Introductory Study: Uniting the Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837
• Introductory Module: Europe in Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
• Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001
• Introductory Module: Seventeenth century England
• Introductory Study: Britain in the Twentieth Century
• Introductory Study: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange

Year 2

Core modules

• Reading History
• Research Methods

Optional modules

• Roman Britain
• The Early Roman Empire
• Representation and Art in Archaeology
• The Archaeology of Gender and the Life Cycle
• The Archaeology of Conflict
• The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual
• Late Roman and Early Medieval Europe
• The Greek World
• Geomatics and Remote Sensing
• Geoarchaeology
• Human Bioarchaeology
• Forensic Archaeology
• Theme Study: Exploiting the Greek and Roman Natural World
• Maritime Archaeology
• Medieval Archaeology
• The Archaeology of Death and Burial
• Archaeology Fieldtrip
• Archaeology, Heritage and Society
• Geographic Information Systems
• Palaeoecology
• Archaeological Theory
• Later Prehistoric Europe
• Independent Study Module
• Field Trip
• Volunteering in History
• Culture and Society in 5th Century Athens
• The World of Alexander the Great
• Greco-Roman Egypt 331-31 BC
• Culture and Society in Republican Rome 506-44 B.C.
• The Carolingian Renaissance
• The Vikings and the Frankish World
• The Investiture Contest
• Norman Sicily, ca 1000-1197
• English Monasticism
• The First English Empire: c. 1100 to c. 1350
• The Reign of King John
• Culture and Society in Late Medieval England
• Political Medievalisms
• Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485-1558
• The Symposium: Ancient Greek Drinking Culture
• Sport and Leisure in Classical Greece and Rome
• Classical World on Film
• The Age of the Vikings
• Post-Carolingian Rulership
• The Crusades
• Societies at War - England and France, 1189-1529
• Textiles in the Medieval World
• Food and Drink in Medieval and Early Modern England
• The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700
• The Renaissance Court: Power. Politics and Patronage
• Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914
• Exploring Past Localities

Year 3

Core modules

• Dissertation in Ancient, Classical and Medieval Studies

Optional modules

• Depth Study: The Celts
• Depth Study: The Archaeology of Space and Place
• Depth Study: The Archaeology of Buildings
• Depth Study: Central Southern England in the Roman Period
• Depth Study: Mediterranean Landscape Studies
• Depth Study: Later Prehistoric Wessex
• Depth Study: The Archaeology of Winchester
• Depth Study: Church Archaeology
• Greek Art and Architecture
• Roman Art and Architecture
• Depth Study: Byzantium and Beyond
• Depth Study: The Archaeology of Africa
• Climate Change and People
• The Archaeology of Italy
• Comparative Study: Reception of the Classical World: Art and Architecture
• Archaeology of Buddhism
• Depth Study: Greek Rhetoric: The Sophists and Lysias & Demosthenes
• Depth Study: Epic Literature and History: Homer and Herodotus
• Depth Study: The "Pax Romana"
• Depth Study: Alfred the Great
• Depth Study: Ruling England in the Second Viking Age, Part I: Kingdoms Lost and Won and Part II: Political Cultures
• Depth Study: The Norman Conquest
• Depth Study: The Emergence of the Italian City Communes (c.1050-c.1150) and The Dominance of the Italian City Communes (c.1150-c.1250).
• Depth Study: Norman Worlds I (Normandy and the British Isles) and II (Southern Italy and Crusader Kingdoms)
• Depth Study: The Anglo-Norman Civil War, 1120-1148 and 1148-1162
• Depth Study: The Hundred Years' War 1337-1453
• Depth Study: The Wars of the Roses 1450-1499
• Depth Study: The Medieval Life Cycle: Youth and Age
• Depth Study: The Italian Wars 1494-1516 and 1521-1559
• Depth Study: The Henrician & Edwardian Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation
• Depth Study: The French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
• Depth Study: Civil War and Revolution in the British Isles
• Comparative Study: Murder in the Ancient City
• Comparative Study: Plutarch's Parallel Lives
• Comparative Study: Greek and Roman Epic
• Comparative Study: Greek and Roman Comedy Theatre
• Comparative Study: Gender and Authority in Early Medieval Europe
• Comparative Study: Medieval Hostageships
• Comparative Study: Warfare in the Medieval West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
• Comparative Study: The Middle Ages in Computer Games
• Comparative Study: Chivalry
• Comparative Study: The Black Death in Europe
• Comparative Study: Religious Reform in Sixteenth-Century Europe
• Comparative Study: The Monstrous Regiment: Gender and Authority in Early Modern Europe

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right hand side).

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.