Classical Civilisation and History

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.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Historiography and Historical Skills 20 credits
• Primary Sources for the Historian: An Introduction to Documentary study 20 credits
• IT for LCS Students 5 credits

Optional modules

• The Greek World: an Introduction 20 credits
• The Roman World: An Introduction 20 credits
• After Troy: Homecoming in Greek Epic and Tragedy 20 credits
• Latin Literature: Republic and Empire 20 credits
• Introduction to Classical Archaeology 20 credits
• Ancient languages - various levels

Year 2

Compulsory modules

• Evidence and Enquiry in Classics 20 credits

Optional modules

• Virgil's Aeneid 20 credits
• Homer's Iliad 20 credits
• Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo 20 credits
• Herodotus and the Beginning of History 20 credits
• Pompeii - Past, Present and Future 20 credits
• The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603 20 credits
• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993 20 credits
• History Students in Schools 20 credits
• Ancient languages - various levels

Year 3

Compulsory modules

• Final Year Project

Optional modules

• Classics in 20th-21st Century Literature 20 credits
• The City in the Roman World 20 credits