Classical Civilisation and History BA

A joint honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each single honours course, but you’ll take fewer optional and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects. You’ll also undertake a major research project in either subject in your final year.

Classical Civilisation

You’ll choose from core modules on the history and literature of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in your first year. In the following year, you’ll study the methods and approaches involved in Classics to build your research skills, and choose from optional modules such as Ovid the Innovator and Plato on Love. You’ll also study in-depth Homer’s Iliad and/or Virgil’s Aeneid– both powerhouses of western literature. In your final year you’ll continue to choose from optional modules on diverse topics from around the classical world including Latin or Ancient Greek.

History

In your first year you’ll study core modules that introduce you to concepts such as historiography, and develop historical skills like working with primary sources. In the following year, you’ll choose from a wide range of optional modules, keeping a balance between earlier and later periods. You could study the Crusades, Imperial Germany or Mao Zedong and China since 1949. In your final year, you’ll focus on a specific theme or topic in your special subject and develop your research and critical skills.

Modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Historiography and Historical Skills
• Primary Sources for the Historian: An Introduction to Documentary study

Optional modules

• Ancient Lives
• Intermediate Ancient Greek
• Intermediate Latin
• The Greek World: an Introduction
• The Roman World: An Introduction
• After Troy: Homecoming in Greek Epic and Tragedy
• Latin Literature: Republic and Empire
• Introduction to Classical Archaeology
• Beginners Ancient Greek
• Beginners Latin
• LCS Academic Essentials

Year 2

Compulsory modules

• Evidence and Enquiry in Classics

Optional modules

• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)
• Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
• The Athenian Empire
• Intermediate Latin (Level 2)
• Ovid the Innovator
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Homer's Iliad
• Small Change and Big Changes: Money and Power in Europe, 284-1000
• The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century
• The Crusades and Medieval Christendom
• Medieval Masculinities: Sex, Violence and Learning 1000-1200
• Life and Death in British India, 1690-1871
• The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century
• The History of Africa since 1900
• The Global Caribbean, 1756-1848
• Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865
• Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama
• History Students in Schools
• Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise
• Thinking about History
• History on the High Street
• History in the Media

Year 3

Optional modules

• Advanced Ancient Language
• Major Research Project
• Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)
• The Athenian Empire
• Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel
• Greek Tragedy
• Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)
• Plato's Republic
• Beginners Latin (Level 3)
• Edge of Empire
• The Third Reich, 1933-1945
• The Cultural History of Venice, 1509-1797
• Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education
• History Dissertation
• The Korean War
• The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 1979
• Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I