Classics BA (Hons)

120 credits spread evenly across two semesters

Required modules include (15 credits each):

• Two Latin Language Modules
• Two Ancient Greek Language Modules

Optional modules on offer may include (15 credits each):

• ‘The Worlds of Odysseus’
• ‘Using Visual Culture’
• ‘Virgil and the Age of Augustus’
• ‘Warfare, Politics and Society in the Greek World, 510-323 BC’
• ‘Hannibal to Nero: An Introduction to Roman History’

• Latin Ia (CLAH401) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 100:0 Aims
  • This module introduces Latin to students who have not necessarily studied a foreign language in depth before.
  • With the help of standard terms for classifying and analysing the elements of the language''s fabric, the module shows how words in Latin interact with each other (''Grammar'') and how they change their shapes (cf. English, ''I eat, he eats'') as part of this process (''morphology''), forming phrases and building into sentences.
  • ​The module builds on the step by step addition to knowledge of grammar and uses practice sentences and passages, aimed at developing the student''s ability to translate Latin of increasing literary and linguistic sophistication.
  • ​Students are expected to memorise Latin words and build their vocabulary. The module also aims to begin the process of learning about Roman history and culture via engagement with concepts and words in the original language.
  Learning Outcomes

  Students who take this module will be able to use traditional grammar to analyse sentences in English and Latin, and to read and translate short passages of Latin prose.

  ​Transferable Skills.This module is designed to foster the following transferable skills, not all of which are directly tested in the assessment:

  Knowledge: recall morphological sets and grammatical rules Recall vocabulary Understanding: Be able to use morphology and rules to translate sentences and passages accurately Be aware of un-English word order principles Be aware of un-English pronoun usage Be aware of un-English language sound Be aware of different sociological frames for some lexical items Be able to use principle translation strategies (top-down bottom-up; information sequencing; need-to-know; phrase-building Be aware of different learning methods

  Students who take this module will be trained in the use of:

  Grammatical terminology and analysis.   Use and formation of nouns (5 declensions)   Use and formation of verbs (4 conjugations and sum esse)   Use and formation of adjectives (decelension 1/2 and 3)   Transitive and intransitive sentences   Apposition   Use of prepositions   Temporal clauses with ubi/postquam   Formation and use of participles   Verbs in the passive   Indirect speech construction   Use of volo, nolo, possum + infinitive
• Latin Ib (CLAH402) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 100:0 Aims
  • This module aims to continue to cover fundamental elements of Latin Grammar, phonology and morphology and their terminologies, the analysis of compound sentence structure, translation of sentences from and into Latin, and short passages from Latin.
  • ​A continuous reading text is introduced, the anonymous latin Romance, Apollonius of Tyre. This has been adapted to produce a seamlessly increasing complexity in the expression of narrative, and an arena for the application of the knowledge and skills acquired in the language classes.
  • To help students build a more extensive vocabulary of Latin words.
  Learning Outcomes

  Students who take this module will be able to use traditional grammar to analyse sentences in English and Latin, and to read and translate short passages of Latin prose.

  ​Transferable Skills.This module is designed to foster the following transferable skills, not all of which are directly tested in the assessment:

  Knowledge: recall morphological sets and grammatical rules; r ecall vocabulary Understanding: Be able to use morphology and rules to translate sentences and passages accurately Be aware of un-English word order principles Be aware of un-English pronoun usage Be aware of un-English language sound Be aware of different sociological frames for some lexical items Be able to use principle translation strategies (top-down bottom-up; information sequencing; need-to-know; phrase-building Be aware of different learning methods

  ​ Students who take this module will

  • consolidate knowledge acquired in CLAH401
  • be trained in the use of:

  relative clauses

  demonstrative pronouns

  comparative and superlative adjectives

  comparative and superlative adverbs

  ablative absolute

  subjunctive clauses (purpose, result, indirect command, indirect question, conditional, cum + subjunctive)

   
• Ancient Greek Ia (CLAH501) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 70:30 Aims

• To give students the knowledge, comeptence and confidence to start reading written documents and literature from ancient Greece in their original language, working with the coursebook and unadapted (''real'') texts.

• ​To introduce the shape and structure of ancient Greek words and sentences, taking students through the alphabet, articles (''the'', a''), cases, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, verb forms and uses, and the present tense in active and middle voices.

• ​To familiarize students with appropriate terminology, methods, techniques and resources for language learning.

• To prepare students for research with ​texts written in ancient Greek, and to make them better equipped for the study of ancient Greek literature, society and culture.

Learning Outcomes

To identify basic features in the shape and structure of ancient Greek language and to develop a strong command of encountered vocabulary.

​To understand and translate sentences and passages of ancient Greek from the coursebook and ''real'' texts.

​To use appropriate terminology, methods, techniques and resources to study ancient Greek (and other foreign languages) successfully.

To be familiar with some classical Greek concepts and idioms in the original language, and so gain insights into ancient Greek literature, society and culture.

• Ancient Greek Ib (CLAH502) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 70:30 Aims

  1. Building on the work of CLAH 501, to give students the knowledge, competence and confidence to start reading written documents and literature from ancient Greece in their original language, working with the coursework and unadapted (''real'') texts.

  2. ​To continue to introduce the shape and structure of ancient Greek words and sentences, taking students through new tenses (imperfect, future, aorist), additional noun types, comparative and superlative adjectives, further verb forms, indirect speech, infinitives, imperatives, optatives, and case usage.

  3. ​To familiarize students with appropriate terminology, methods, techniques and resources for language learning.

  4. ​To prepare students for research with texts written in ancient Greek, and to make them better equipped for the study of ancient Greek literature, society and culture.

  Learning Outcomes

  To identify more complex features in the shape and structure of ancient Greek language and to continue to develop a strong command of the encountered vocabulary.

  ​To understand and translate sentences and passages of ancient Greek from the coursebook and ''real'' texts.

  ​To use appropriate terminology, methods, techniques and resources to study ancient Greek (and other foreign languages) successfully.

  To be familiar with some classical Greek concepts and idioms in the original language, and so gain insights into ancient Greek literature, culture and society.​

• The Worlds of Odysseus (CLAH101) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 60:40 Aims
  • ​To make students familiar with ​one of Homer''s epics, in an analytical way
    
  • To stimulate students'' awareness of interpretative problems in Homeric epic and of the scholarly approaches to these texts
    
  • ​ ​To provide students with a sense of cultural and historical context of Greek literature and civilization​
    
  • ​To foster core academic skills (close reading, research, written communication, academic integrity when using sources) which students will use in their subsequent study (Levels 2-3)
    
  Learning Outcomes The students should be able to discuss Homer''s Odyssey (in translation) in an informed manner​

  
  

  ​The students should be able to extrapolate, illustrate and contextualise cultural and socio-historical issues from the material of the Odyssey

  ​​​​The students should be able to engage with modern scholarship in order to construct interpretation of the ancient text(s) in translation
  
• Virgil and The Age of Augustus (CLAH102) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 60:40 Aims

  This module aims to focus on the literary output of the early Augustan period at Rome, with a focus on the Aeneid, an epic poem by Virgil and a core text for the study of Latin literature. As well as the works themselves, students explore the literary, social, and political contexts of their creation and other aspects of artistic expression at this period. This module aims to offer a foundation for further study of Latin poetry, epic poetry, and literary culture at Levels 2 and 3.

  Learning Outcomes

  In the course of the this module, students will: Become familiar with Virgil''s Aeneid and understand its literary shape and the contexts of its production.

  ​Acquire some understanding of the concept of genre and literary structures and approaches.

  ​Develop skills of reading with understanding, analysis, and argument, written communication and oral discussion, and coherent expression of their own responses to texts.

• Warfare, Politics, and Society In The Greek World, 510-323 B.c. (CLAH104) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 60:40 Aims
  • The aim of this module is to acquaint you with the history and society of the ancient Greek world from 510 BC until the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC). The module also has as its aim to enable you to engage critically with scholarship dealing with the central historical questions of that period, and to foster core skills in using and evaluating primary evidence.
  • to enable you to learn to read and evaluate a range of advanced secondary scholarship  ​
  • to foster core skills in using and evaluating primary...