Classical Studies with English

Year 1

There are no specifically required modules on this course so you can select modules to build a study pathway that reflects your own particular interests.

King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional module will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

First year students take 90 credits of Classics modules (of which 30 credits may be language acquisition modules) and 30 credits of English modules.

There are no required modules in Year 1.

Classics

You are required to take 90 credits from a range optional classics modules, which may include up to 30 credits of Greek or Latin language acquisition. The wide range of modules available may typically include:

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600) (30 credits)
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (30 credits)
• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 2 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 3 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 2 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 3 (30 credits)
• Introduction to Byzantium and Modern Greece: The Greek-speaking world from 330 AD to today (15 credits)
• Receptions of the past: The Hellenic world from antiquity to today (15 credits)
• One 15-credit optional module from either the Department of War Studies or from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities

English

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional English modules, which may typically include:

• Introducing Literary Theories (15 credits)
• Writing London (15 credits)
• American Literature (15 credits)
• Classical and Biblical Contexts (15 credits)
• Medieval Literary Culture (15 credits)
• Early Modern Literary Culture (15 credits)

Year 2

Second year students take 90 credits of Classics modules and 30 credits of English modules.

You also have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of the second year or for the whole of the second year. Partner universities currently include:

• University of Auckland
• University of Melbourne
• University of Toronto (Full year only)
• University of California
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• University of Sydney

There are no required modules in Year 2.

Classics

You are required to take 90 credits from optional classics modules, which may typically include:

• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 3A (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 3A (30 credits)
• Roman Britain (30 credits)
• Art & Power in the Age of Alexander (Hellenistic Art I) (15 credits)
• Art & Empire: The Legacy of Byzantium (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts III (Prose): Various Texts (15 credits)
• From Sulla to Caesar: the fall of the Roman Republic (15 credits)
• Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (15 credits)
• Pompeii: History and Society (15 credits)
• Introductory Latin Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Homer (15 credits)
• Myth and literature: ancient stories, modern meanings (15 credits)
• Death in Greek Literature (15 credits)
• Virgil's Aeneid (15 credits)
• The Art of Acquisition: Conquest, Collection and the Rise of Rome (Hellenistic Art II) (15 credits)
• Building Greece (15 credits)
• Constantinople: Imperial Capital - Medieval Metropolis (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts IV (Verse): Various Texts (15 credits)
• Democracy, Empire and War: Greece 446-338 BC (15 credits)
• The Late Roman World, AD 337-425 (15 credits)
• Introductory Latin Texts: Verse (15 credits)
• Wisdom and the Divine: ancient Greek philosophy and religion (15 credits)
• Ancient Sexuality I (15 credits)
• Ancient Sexuality II (15 credits)
• Latin Lyric Poetry (15 credits)
• The Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Ancient World (15 credits)

You can take up to 30 credits in optional module(s) from either the Department of War Studies or the Faculty of Arts & Humanities

English

You are required to take 30 credits from optional English modules, which may typically include:

• Cultural Encounters (Medieval) (15 credits)
• History, Politics and the Elizabethan Imagination (15 credits)
• The Rise of the Novel (15 credits)
• Performance in Medieval Culture (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Comedy and Identity (15 credits)
• London Literature 1380-1450 (Medieval) (15 credits)
• The Poetry of Revolution (15 credits)
• Prose Fiction (Creative Writing) (15 credits)
• Literature and Psychoanalysis (15 credits)
• Modern Theatre (15 credits)
• Theatre Capital (15 credits)
• Fin de Siecle (15 credits)
• 19th Century American Literature (15 credits)
• The Colonial Novel and British India (15 credits)
• Mapping Modernism (15 credits)
• American Popular Culture (15 credits)
• Theory, Culture and Politics after the 1960s (15 credits)
• Creative Writing Drama (15 credits)
• Old English Poems and Modern British Poetry (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Subjects of Desire (Medieval) (15 credits)
• Eighteenth Century Travel Writing (15 credits)
• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean England (15 credits)
• Renaissance Wordplay (15 credits)
• The Film of the Play (15 credits)
• Victorians and Social Change (15 credits)
• First World War Literature (15 credits)
• Modern Poetry and the Place of Writing (15 credits)
• US Slavery and the Literary Imagination (15 credits)
• Contemporary Global Novels (15 credits)
• Gender & Performance (15 credits)
• Twentieth Century American Fiction (15 credits)
• Experimental Theatre (15 credits)

Year 3

Final year students take 90 credits of Classics modules and 30 credits of English modules.

There are no required modules in Year 3.

Classics

You are required to take 90 credits from optional classics modules, which may typically include:

• Minoans and Mycenaeans (30 credits)
• The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture (30 credits)
• The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (30 credits)
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda (30 credits)
• The History & Theory of Ancient Slavery (30 credits)
• Greek Religion (30 credits)
• Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire (30 credits)
• Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature (30 credits)
• Neronian Literature and Culture (30 credits)
• Plato's myths: the soul, desire and the Beyond (30 credits)
• Living forever: fame and glory from Homeric heroes to Roman emperors (and beyond) (30 credits)
• An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters (30 credits)
• Dissertation on a classical subject (30 credits)
• Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Persian Kings and their Territory in the Achaemenid Empire (15 credits)
• Latin Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Venice: history and art (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Poetry (15 credits)
• Latin Texts: Poetry (15 credits)

English

You are required to take 30 credits from optional English modules, which may typically include:

• Autobiography (15 credits)
• Critically Queer (15 credits)
• Jane Austen in Context (15 credits)
• Beowulf (15 credits)
• Postcolonial Perspectives (15 credits)
• Victorians Abroad (15 credits)
• George Eliot: Fiction and Context (15 credits)
• Shakespeare's London (15 credits)
• Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Reading (15 credits)
• Modernist Short Story (15 credits)
• Poetry in America 1900 – 1950 (15 credits)
• Imagining Britain: Medieval Places, Journeys, Maps (15 credits)
• The Life of the Sonnet (15 credits)
• American West (15 credits)
• Memory and Time in the Nineteenth Century (15 credits)
• Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I (15 credits)
• James Joyce and Ulysses (15 credits)
• Melancholia and Its Modern Afterlife (15 credits)
• Late Shakespeare (15 credits)
• Waste and Idleness (15 credits)
• Reading Paradise Lost (15 credits)
• Poetry in America 1950 – 2000 (15 credits)
• Literature and Media (15 credits)
• Medieval/Modern: Text, Culture and the Politics of Time (15 credits)
• Theatre & Politics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (15 credits)
• Alternative Americas: Margins, Minorities & Historical Change in 19th-Century Society (15 credits)
• Vernacular Theory (15 credits)
• Conspiracy Fictions in Contemporary America (15 credits)
• Literature, Solidarity & the Humanitarian Turn (15 credits)
• Creative Writing Poetry (15 credits)
• Cuture, Gender and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis in order to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. The optional modules offered may therefore change. We suggest that you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.