Classics (BA): 3-year full-time

COURSE STRUCTURE

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

The options in the early stages of the programme (courses in Greek and Latin grammar and syntax and survey courses such as The Ancient World and The Archaeology of Greece and Rome) prepare you to make more specialised option choices later.

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. We offer language and non-language courses.

In Year 1, you take one compulsory module, two Level 4 (beginner), 5 (intermediate) or 6 (advanced) language option modules and one Level 4 non-language option module (usually The Ancient World, but there is a wide choice).

In Year 2, you take two compulsory modules and two Level 5 or 6 language option modules, OR one compulsory module (Exploring the Past), two Level 5 or 6 language option modules and one Level 6 non-language option module.

In Year 3, you write a dissertation and take one compulsory module (Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture, if not taken in Year 2) and one Level 6 language option module OR one Level 6 language option module and one Level 6 non-language option module.

Language modules are taught at a number of levels of difficulty and analysis, and students who have no prior knowledge of one of the Classical languages will be able to take a beginners' class alongside their other classes. You take a minimum of four language modules, including at least one higher-level 'set book' module in which you read a selected text in depth with an expert lecturer.

YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULE

• Approaching the Past

YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULES

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

YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULES

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

INDICATIVE GREEK AND LATIN MODULES

• 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)

INDICATIVE LEVEL 4 OPTION MODULES

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

INDICATIVE LEVEL 5 OPTION MODULES

• Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
• Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453
• Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
• From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
• Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
• The Archaeology of a Greek Sanctuary

INDICATIVE LEVEL 6 OPTION MODULES

• A sense of space: travellers and maps in the pre-modern world
• Stories in Stuff: the medieval and early modern worlds in 20 texts and objects
• The Athenian Empire
• The Empire of Letters: Correspondence in the Roman World
• The Viking Impact, c 750-1100