BA Museum and Classical Studies P1Q8
Bachelor's degree
In Reading
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Reading
Full Time: 3 Years
Develop as a curator and gain hands-on experience at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and our other University museums on this unique Museum Studies and Classical Studies undergraduate degree.
This joint honours course combines the contemporary theory and practice of museum studies with the study of the classical world through literature, material culture, and history. We are the only UK university to offer this exciting combination.
Central to the course is the hands-on experience you will gain at our on-site museums. The University has three museums – including the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology – in which you can gain experience as a volunteer as you learn. As well as museums, we also have a number of archives and special collections of international importance.
Your teaching staff are all practising professionals, including curators, conservators and archivists, and use a combination of problem solving and enquiry-based learning techniques to teach you.
You will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to be a museum professional. Teaching will encourage you to research the environment that artefacts are displayed in, how they are catalogued, and the meanings that they hold for different audiences. You will be given the opportunity to conduct your own research and, in your final year, you will design, create and evaluate your own exhibition.
In Classical Studies, you will explore the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome. You will have the opportunity to study different genres of ancient literature alongside your choice of modules in areas including history, art, and language. You can enhance your knowledge of the ancient world through optional Latin and Greek modules, or broaden your understanding by looking at the Classical past in film or through archaeology.
We encourage you to gain direct experience of ancient sites through independent travel, for which travel scholarships are available. We also run our own study trips....
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- Greek
- Latin
- Archaeology
- University
- Teaching
- Art
- Design
Course programme
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Museum History, Policy and Ethics
- Museum Communication and Interpretation
- Texts, Readers, and Writers
- Ancient Greek 1
- Ancient Greek 2 (I)
- Ancient Greek 3 (I)
- Ancient Greek 4 (H)
- Ancient Greek 5 (H)
- Ancient Song
- Latin 1 (C)
- Latin 2 (I)
- Latin 3 (I)
- Latin 4 (H)
- Latin 5 (H)
- Rome in the Augustan Age
- The Civilization of Fifth-Century Athens
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2 Core modules include:- Break into the Museum: Work Placement
- Curatorship and Collections Management
- Museum Learning and Engagement
- Museum History, Policy and Ethics
- Ancient Drama
- Ancient Epic
- Ancient Greek 1
- Ancient Greek 2 (I)
- Ancient Greek 3 (I)
- Ancient Greek 4 (H)
- Ancient Greek 5 (H)
- Ancient Persuasion
- Ancient World on Film
- Curatorship and Collections Management
- Egypt and Greece: Hellenic Origins
- Egypt and Greece: Roman Revelations
- Greek Comedy
- Greek History: Archaic Age to Alexander
- IWLP Modern Greek 2
- IWLP Modern Greek 3
- IWLP Modern Greek Level 1
- Latin 1 (C)
- Latin 2 (I)
- Latin 3 (I)
- Latin 4 (H)
- Latin 5 (H)
- Museum Communication and Interpretation
- My Mother's Sin and other Stories
- Practice of Entrepreneurship
- Roman Epic
- Roman History: From Republic to Empire
- Roman Love Poetry
- Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World
- Themes and Issues in History
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3 Core modules include:- Display Design, Planning and Creation: Project Module
- Alexander to Cleopatra: History and Culture of the Hellenistic World (c. 330-30 BC)
- Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. The Context for the Trojan War
- Ancient Biography
- Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs
- Ancient Greek 1
- Ancient Greek 2 (I)
- Ancient Greek 3 (I)
- Ancient Greek 4 (H)
- Ancient Greek 5 (H)
- Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece
- British School at Rome Undergraduate Summer School
- Carthage:The Rise and Fall
- Digital Silchester
- Dissertation in Classics
- Greek Art and Drama
- IWLP Modern Greek 2
- IWLP Modern Greek 3
- IWLP Modern Greek Level 1
- Independent Third Year Project
- Latin 1 (C)
- Latin 2 (I)
- Latin 3 (I)
- Latin 4 (H)
- Latin 5 (H)
- Roman Cities
- Technology in the Ancient World
- Transformations of Helen
- Xenophon’s Anabasis
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
BA Museum and Classical Studies P1Q8