Classical Art & Archaeology

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

Overview
This course offers advanced study of Greek and Roman art and archaeology and is an intercollegiate programme with options taught at King's, UCL and Royal Holloway, with close links to the Institute of Classical Studies.
It gives you with the unique opportunity to acquire technical skills provided by optional modules in papyrology, epigraphy and palaeography.
Leads to further research or careers in education, journalism, finance, politics and cultural sectors.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Study at one of the world's largest and most distinguished Departments of Classics.
Unrivalled location for the study of the ancient world thanks to London's unique range of specialist libraries, museums and galleries.
Extraordinarily wide choice of modules, drawing on the resources of the whole of the University of London.
King's graduates enjoy one of the best employment rates and starting salaries in the UK. King's is ranked 6th in the UK for graduate employment (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016)

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Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Greek
  • Latin
  • Options
  • Archaeology
  • Classics
  • Art
  • University
  • Poetry

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

You are required to take:

  • Research Training & Dissertation in Classical Archaeology (60 credits)

Part time students take the required module in year 2.

Optional Modules

In addition, students are required to take modules totalling 40 credits from a range of Archaeology modules that may typically include:

  • The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture and its Legacy (40 Credits)
  • The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (40 Credits)
  • Roman Britain (40 Credits)
  • Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (20 Credits)
  • Living in Byzantium I: Material Culture and Built Environment in Late Antiquity (20 Credits
  • Living in Byzantium II: Material Culture and Built Environment in the Middle Ages (20 Credits)
  • Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (20 Credits)

Choose two to four modules totalling 80 credits from a range of options that typically includes:

  • Beginners' Ancient Greek forResearch (40 Credits)
  • Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (40 Credits)
  • Medieval Latin Literature (40 Credits)
  • Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography (20 Credits)
  • Homer (40 Credits)
  • The Reception of Roman Comedy (20 Credits)
  • Homeric Presences in Greek Poetry and Shorter Prose since 1890 (20 Credits)
  • Modern Greek Poetry and the Epic Tradition (20 Credits)
  • C.P. Cavafy: the Making of a Modernist (20 Credits)
  • Early Modern Latin Poetry I (20 Credits)
  • Tacitus & Nero (40 Credits)
  • Latin Epigraphy (40 Credits)
  • Roman Britain (40 Credits)
  • Roman Egypt (40 Credits)
  • One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600-800 (20 Credits)
  • Persepolis (20 Credits)
  • Greek Religion: Myth & Meaning (20 Credits)
  • Greek Religion: Culture & Cognition (20 Credits)
  • The City of Rome (British School at Rome Annual Postgraduate Course) (40 Credits)
  • Up to 20 Credits from King’s Modern Language Centre
  • Master’s modules offered by:

- UCL Department of Greek & Latin

- UCL Department of History

- UCL Institute of Archaeology

- RHUL Department of Classics

- RHUL Department of History

All subject to approvals.

Part time students take 40 credits of Archaeology modules and 40 credits from a range of optional modules in year 1. They take the dissertation and 40 credits of optional modules in year 2.

We review the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.

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