Classical Studies (BA): 3-year, full-time

You have flexibility to tailor your degree to suit your particular interests, choosing from a range of options in Classical history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and language.

Survey modules in the early stages of the programme (The Ancient World, The Archaeology of Greece and Rome, Introduction to Latin or Greek) prepare you to make more specialised option choices later.

You study at least one language module (Greek or Latin) in the course of your degree.

Our position in a leading Department of History, Classics and Archaeology gives you the opportunity, unusual in UK Classical degrees, to study in depth the place of the ancient Mediterranean in world history, as well as its importance for contemporary political and social debates. Specially designed ‘How to’ modules bring together Classics, History and Archaeology students and lecturers to debate shared problems in research, interpretation and writing (Approaching the Past, Exploring the Past, Writing the Past). You can also choose from a wealth of options in the history and archaeology of other periods of history, including both broad surveys and more specialist options.

The programme consists of 11 modules (including a double-weighted dissertation), making a total of 360 credits.

In Year 1, you take one compulsory module, two Level 4 option modules (usually including The Ancient World) and one Level 4 (beginner), 5 (intermediate) or 6 (advanced) language option module.

In Year 2, you take two compulsory modules and two Level 5 option modules, OR one compulsory module (Exploring the Past), two Level 5 option modules and one Level 6 option module - in either case you can tailor your option choices to suit your particular interests (whether in literature, history, language, archaeology or philosophy).

In Year 3, you take one compulsory module (Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture - if not taken in Year 2) and one Level 6 option module OR two Level 6 option modules (again tailored to your particular interests), and you write a dissertation.

Language modules are taught at a number of levels of difficulty and analysis, and students who have no prior knowledge of Classical languages will be able to take a beginners' class.

• Approaching the Past

• Exploring the Past
• Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture

• Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture
• Writing the Past: Dissertation

• Advanced Greek Language
• Advanced Latin Language
• Greek set book (A)
• Intermediate Greek
• Intermediate Latin
• Introduction to Ancient Greek
• Introduction to Latin
• Latin set book (A)

• Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
• The Ancient World
• The Archaeology of Greece and Rome

• Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
• Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453
• Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
• Empires: Conquest and Decolonisation, from 1700 to Brexit
• From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
• Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
• The Archaeology of a Greek Sanctuary
• The Renaissance in Italy and Europe: From the Black Death to the Reformations (c.1350-1600)

• A sense of space: travellers and maps in the pre-modern world
• The Athenian Empire
• The Empire of Letters: Correspondence in the Roman World
• The Viking Impact, c 750-1100