Ancient History BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Liverpool

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Liverpool

Our Ancient History programme provides you with the chance to study a wide range of themes in the political, social, and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome. You are introduced to important figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, or Augustus, and their military and political actions. You also learn about the social, economic, and cultural realities of life in Athens and Rome and you are challenged in your assumptions about the Classical World. The degree provides you with the skills to read and analyse the surviving (and sometimes conflicting) evidence, allowing you to reach and present your own judgments convincingly on a variety of complex and controversial social,

political, and cultural issues. You will also have the opportunity to study Greek and/or Latin from beginners to advanced levels. Choosing this subject as a Single Honours Year One develops your knowledge of the main themes and events in Greek and Roman history, and the skills required to assess them. Further modules expand the range of sources (reliefs, statues, paintings, etc) with which you are familiar, and focus on how the ancient world worked. Year Two gives you the chance to broaden your knowledge and improve the skills you have acquired through core modules on broad topics such as politics and the writing of histories or social and cultural aspects of class. You will study ancient texts, reflect on the nature of history, and shape your programme with optional choices. Year Three modules centre on key figures and themes. They reflect the research interests of your lecturers and allow you to enhance your skills, depth, and focus. Your dissertation will give you the opportunity to undertake detailed and independent research. You will have an expert adviser who will help you define the topic and give you advice on useful directions to take, but the subject matter...

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Liverpool (Merseyside)
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Chatham Street, L69 7ZH

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About this course

If you’re considering this subject as a combination within Honours Select, please refer to our Honours Select page for further information about entry requirements. Entry Requirements
A level offerABB
Subject requirementsNo specific subject requirements. BTECBTEC applications are encouraged. We evaluate each BTEC application on its merits and may make offers at DDM, with 100 out of 180 credits at Distinction. International Baccalaureate33 points Irish Leaving CertificateA1 A1 B1.

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Subjects

  • Greek
  • Latin
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • C++
  • IT
  • Primary
  • Ancient History
  • Grammar
  • Writing
  • Communication Training
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

Module details Programme Year One

120 credits spread evenly across two semesters

Required modules include (15 credits each):

  • ‘Warfare, Politics, and Society in the Greek World, 510-323 BC’
  • ‘Hannibal to Nero: An Introduction to Roman History’
  • ‘Greek Myth and Society’
  • ‘Using Visual Culture’

Optional modules can include (15 credits each):

  • ‘Worlds of Odysseus’
  • ‘Virgil and the Age of Augustus’
  • Latin
  • Greek
Compulsory modules
  • 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 evidence.
    • to develop your skills in presenting historical anal​ysis in written and in oral form
    Learning Outcomes

    you will have a sound knowledge of the broad sweep of Greek history from 510 to 323 BC, including not only the history of events but also a range of key themes in social and cultural history

    ​accustomed to using a variety of primary and secondary material to answer (and formulate) historical questions relating to political events, warfare, society and culture.

    You will have developed a variety of transferable skills including: oral discussion; listening and note-taking skills; analytical reading of set texts; identification and deployment of material relevant to a particular question; engagement with primary evidence; written exposition; effective time-management.

  • Hannibal To Nero: An Introduction To Roman History (CLAH105) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 60:40 Aims
    • This module deals with the history and society of Rome and the Roman world from the foundation of Rome to the end of the secondcentury AD. The aim is to give the student a basic outline of Roman history.
    • ​To give the student an introduction to some central social and economic themes in the Roman world.
    • ​The module also serves as an introduction to academic skills required for studying the classical world and ancient history
    Learning Outcomes

    The objectives are that with reasonable diligence during the course of study the student will be able to: narrate and show some understanding of the main course of events in the Roman world from foundation of Rome through to c. AD 200.

    To show some awareness of the cultural and social context of these events

    ​To show some awareness of relevant source material

    ​Generic academic skills: The module systematically introduces students to a range of generic and subject-specific academic skills, such as using the library, creating bibliographies, writing essays and giving presentations.

  • Using Visual Culture (CLAH114) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 0:100 Aims
    • Far from relying upon written texts alone, ancient societies typically employed a wide variety of visual media to communicate shared ideas and beliefs. The aim of this module is to acquaint you with the diverse ways in which ancient cultures (Greek, Roman, and their mediterranean conexts) could express themselves visually – encompassing everything from sculpture, painting, and architecture to the images stamped on coins.
    • ​To encourage the development of the critical and methodological skills needed to ‘read’ ancient visual culture and interpret it in wider socio-cultural contexts, both ancient and modern.
    Learning Outcomes

    Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to analyse examples of ancient visual culture from a range of different perspectives.

    ​They will be able to critically evaluate objects and images in different contexts, ancient and modern, and to understand the continuities and differences between them.

    ​Students will be able to assess the relative contribution and importance of visual culture to the wider picture of the ancient world.

    ​Students will acquire specific skills necessary to talk and write about ancient visual culture, students will also develop a broader skills base, with a particular focus on different kinds of written communication (e.g. book reviews, reflective responses, essays) and library and other research skills.

  • Greek Myth and Society (CLAH115) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 100:0 Aims
    • To explore ancient Greek myth in its social, political, and religious contexts, focusing primarily on the Archaic and Classical periods (7th - 4th C BC).
    • ​To investigate the nature of myth and its role within Greek society, and to thereby develop an understanding of ancient Greek society
    • ​To introduce a broad range of literary, artistic, and archaeological sources for Greek myth and society, and to use them as evidence for social history.
    • ​To assess the importance of Greek myth in later societies, including our own.
    Learning Outcomes

    To be familiar with a number of myths circulating in ancient Greece and to appreciate their social, religious, and political dimensions.

    To understand how literary and artistic retellings of myth shape ancient Greeks'' experience of the world, their society, and relationships; and to be aware of how and why Greek myths are retold in later societies.

    To gain knowledge of a range of literary, artistic and archaeological evidence, and use it for learning about Greek society.

    ​To be able to read and evaluate modern resources and ancient sources in order to research issues and answer questions of interest to the social historian.

Optional modules
  • 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.

  • Greek Myth and Society (CLAH115) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester First Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 100:0 Aims
    • To explore ancient Greek myth in its social, political, and religious contexts, focusing primarily on the Archaic and Classical periods (7th - 4th C BC).
    • ​To investigate the nature of myth and its role within Greek society, and to thereby develop an understanding of ancient Greek society
    • ​To introduce a broad range of literary, artistic, and archaeological sources for Greek myth and society, and to use them as evidence for social history.
    • ​To assess the importance of Greek myth in later societies, including our own.
    Learning Outcomes

    To be familiar with a number of myths circulating in ancient Greece and to appreciate their social, religious, and political dimensions.

    To understand how literary and artistic retellings of myth shape ancient Greeks'' experience of the world, their society, and relationships; and to be aware of how and why Greek myths are retold in later societies.

    To gain knowledge of a range of literary, artistic and archaeological evidence, and use it for learning about Greek society.

    ​To be able to read and evaluate modern resources and ancient sources in order to research issues and answer questions of interest to the social historian.

  • Using Visual Culture (CLAH114) Level 1 Credit level 15 Semester Second Semester Exam:Coursework weighting 0:100 Aims
    • Far from relying upon written texts alone, ancient societies typically employed a wide variety of visual media to communicate shared ideas and beliefs. The aim of this module is to acquaint you with the diverse ways in which ancient cultures (Greek, Roman, and their mediterranean conexts) could express themselves visually – encompassing everything from sculpture, painting, and architecture to the images stamped on coins.
    • ​To encourage the development of the critical and methodological skills needed to ‘read’ ancient visual culture and interpret it in wider socio-cultural contexts, both ancient and modern.
    Learning Outcomes

    Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to analyse examples of ancient visual culture from a range of different perspectives.

    ​They will be able to critically evaluate objects and images in different contexts, ancient and modern, and to understand the continuities and differences between them.

    ​Students will be able to assess the relative contribution and importance of visual culture to the wider picture of the ancient world.

    ​Students will acquire specific skills necessary to talk and write about ancient visual culture, students will also develop a broader skills base, with a particular focus on different kinds of written communication (e.g. book reviews, reflective responses, essays) and library and other research skills.

  • 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...

Ancient History BA (Hons)

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