Classical Literature and Philosophy 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 options 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 Literature

In your first year you’ll study core modules that introduce you to ancient Greek and Roman literature, as well as starting to develop the skills required to analyse them. You’ll develop those skills by exploring in-depth Homer’s Iliad and/or Virgil’s Aeneid, and choosing from optional modules on e.g. Classics in 20th and 21st century literature, or Roman or Athenian Comedy. By the time you reach your final year, you’ll have highly developed research and critical skills and will continue to build your diverse literary portfolio. You’ll also have the chance to begin or continue with Latin or Ancient Greek throughout.


Philosophy

Core modules in your first year will introduce you to topics such as ethics and logic and teach you to construct arguments. This will lay the foundation for the next two years, where you’ll continue to take a broad approach to philosophy by choosing modules from areas such as logic and language, philosophy of science, mind and knowledge or history of philosophy. By your final year you will also have highly developed research and analytical skills.


Modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• After Troy: Homecoming in Greek Epic and Tragedy
• Latin Literature: Republic and Empire
• How to Think Clearly and Argue Well

Optional modules

• Ancient Lives
• Intermediate Ancient Greek
• Intermediate Latin
• Beginners Ancient Greek
• Beginners Latin
• Magic, Science and Religion
• History of Psychology
• Introduction to the History of Science
• Darwin, Germs and the Bomb
• LCS Academic Essentials
• The Mind
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
• The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong
• Knowledge, Self and Reality
• How Science Works
• Great Philosophical Thinkers

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)
• Augustus and his Legacy
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Greek Art and Society
• Homer's Iliad
• Edge of Empire
• Black Europe
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
• Formal Logic
• History of Modern Philosophy: Leibniz and Hume
• Topics in Epistemology: Theory and Evidence
• Topics in Epistemology: Knowledge and Justification
• Philosophy of Religion
• Introduction to Metaphysics
• Philosophical Issues in Biology
• How Biology Works
• Thinking About Race

Year 3

Optional modules

• Advanced Ancient Language
• Major Research Project
• Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
• The Athenian Empire
• Ovid the Innovator
• Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel
• Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy
• Pompeii - Past, Present and Future
• Edge of Empire
• Kant
• Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
• Philosophy of Biology
• Metaethics
• The Structure of Reality
• Philosophical Issues in Technology
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science
• Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Scienc
• External Placement: Beyond the University