Classical Studies and English BA

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The Classical Studies and English degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons.

Year 1

The first year gives you a foundational knowledge of Classical and English, concepts, and texts, plus the opportunity to learn Ancient Greek or Latin. You will also gain important analytical techniques that will be useful across a range of subjects and research tasks.

Compulsory modules

Please note, modules CLA1005 and CLA1006 run in alternate years; students will take whichever module is running.

CodeModuleCredits EAS1035Beginnings: English Literature Before 1800 30 Either CLA1005 or CLA1006 CLA1005Greek and Roman Narrative30 CLA1006Greek and Roman Drama30 Optional modules

For Classical Studies you would take one Text and Context module, and choose another Classical Studies Level 1 optional module.

Select 30 credits of English Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Ancient Sources (Written Evidence) CLA1303Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Roman Historical Writing15 CLA1308Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Comparing Empires and Imperialism15 Ancient Sources (Material Evidence) CLA1354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 CLA1357Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Globalisation and Identity in the Western Roman Empire15 Text and Context CLA1406Text and Context: Roman Love Elegy15 CLA1408Text and Context: Suetonius and Imperial Power15 CLA1410Text and Context: Writing Women in Ancient Literature15 Ancient World CLA1508Ancient World: Roman Philosophy15 English EAS1031Introduction to Creative Writing15 EAS1034Film Studies: An Introduction15 EAS1037The Novel15 EAS1038The Poem15 EAS1041Rethinking Shakespeare15 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your grasp of Classical and English knowledge, methods, and texts through a set of compulsory modules. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules

For English you will take 30 credits of Literature Pre-1800 English optional modules.

Please note, modules CLA2005 and CLA2006 run in alternate years; students will take whichever module is running.

CodeModuleCredits Either CLA2005 or CLA2006 CLA2005Greek and Roman Narrative30 CLA2006Greek and Roman Drama30 English EAS2071Chaucer and His Contemporaries30 EAS2026Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-164030 EAS2080Renaissance and Revolution30 EAS2102Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-175030 EAS2105Theatrical Cultures: Renaissance to Restoration30 EAS2106Romanticism30 Optional modules

For Classical Studies you would take one Text and Context module, and choose another Classical Studies Level 2 optional module.

Select 30 credits of English Level 2 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Ancient Sources (Written Evidence) CLA2303Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Roman Historical Writing15 CLA2308Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Comparing Empires and Imperialism15 Ancient Sources (Material Evidence) CLA2354Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus15 CLA2357Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Globalisation and Identity in the Western Roman Empire15 Text and Context CLA2406Text and Context: Roman Love Elegy15 CLA2408Text and Context: Suetonius and Imperial Power15 CLA2410Text and Context: Writing Women in Ancient Literature15 Ancient World CLA2508Ancient World: Roman Philosophy15 English EAF2502Shots in the Dark30 EAF2510Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture30 EAS2029Revolutions and Evolutions: Nineteenth Century Writings30 EAS2074Introduction to American Literature30 EAS2087Creative Writing: Finding a Voice30 EAS2103Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-196030 EAS2104Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations30 EAS2106Romanticism30 Year 3

The centre-point of the final year is the dissertation. You may take your dissertation in either Classical Studies (CLA3009) or English (EAS3003 or EAS3122). You will also take 90 credits of specialist modules to create a programme of work fully reflecting your interests.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Students must select one from the following options CLA3009Dissertation 30 EAS3003Dissertation30 EAS3122Creative Writing Dissertation30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of Classical Studies Level 3 optional modules, or take CLA3009 and 30 credits of Classical Studies optional modules.

Select 60 credits of English Level 3 optional modules, or take EAS3003 or EAS3122 and 30 credits of English optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Classical Studies CLA3010Greek Mythology30 CLA3018Neronian Literature and Society30 CLA3020Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World30 CLA3028Philip II and Alexander the Great of Macedon30 CLA3108The World of Late Antiquity30 CLA3112Medicine in Antiquity15 CLA3116Britain in the Roman World15 CLA3255Greek Political Thought15 CLA3256Impact of Greek Culture15 CLA3258The Reception of Greek Culture15 CLA3259The Ancient Greek Novel15 CLA3260Tales of the Unexpected: Paradoxography, Fiction and the Culture of Wonder15 CLA3263Being and Not-Being in Greek Philosophy: from Parmenides to Aristotle15 CLA3264Ancient Science and Society15 CLA3265Art and Visual Culture in the Roman World15 CLA3267Dialogues with the Past: Creative Interpretative Project15 English EAF3501American Independent Film30 EAF3504Cityscapes30 EAF3508Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema30 EAF3509Diasporic Cinemas30 EAF3513British Screens30 EAS3100Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity30 EAS3116Short Fiction30 EAS3128Writing the Short Film30 EAS3131Advanced Critical Theory30 EAS3134Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop30 EAS3136Myths of the Nation: Postcolonial Studies30 EAF3139Classics of Children's Literature30 EAS3141Imperial Encounters: the Victorians and their World30 EAS3143Romanticism30 EAS3145Acts of Writing: Literature and Film, 1953-present30 EAS3165Charles Dickens and the Condition of England30 EAS3167James Joyce's Ulysses30 EAS3168The American Novel Since 200030 EAS3176Performing Digital Humanities: New Media Art and the 21st Century Museum30 EAS3177India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction30 EAS3178Life-Writing: History, Form, Practice30 EAS3179Life and Death in Early Modern Literature30 EAS3180Literature/Anti-Literature30 EAS3217Crime and Punishment: Detective Fiction from the Rue Morgue to the Millenium30 EAS3219Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form30 EAS3225‘Reader, I Married Him’: The Evolution of Romance Fiction, from 1740 to the present30 EAS3226Modern Irish Literature30 EAS3227Greek Fire30 EAS3228Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare30 EAS3229Gothic Evolutions: Literature and Visual Culture30 EAS3230Prostitutes, Pornographers, and Inverts: Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century30 EAS3231Spectacular Bodies: Shakespeare and Counter-cultural Performance30 EAS3232Jane Austen and the Novel30