Classics / Classical Studies (BA) - 2012/2013 entry

Year 1

Latin and/or ancient Greek (beginner's level available); a prescribed non-language module, such as Greek History, Roman History, or The Archaeology of Greece and Rome.

Years 2, 3 and 4

BA Classics: progression is through designated language and literature modules, reaching set book level in one or both ancient languages. This progression may be combined with a number of non-language option modules, such as Literature in Translation; Letters in the Roman World; Ancient Philosophy; Religious and Political Space; Responses to Rome; and The Athenian Empire.

BA Classical Studies: progression is through modules relating to one or more disciplines included in the study of the classical world, such as classical archaeology, ancient history and literature in translation.

Non-language-based modules include:

• From Republic to Empire: Roman History 133 BC–AD 284
• Literature in Translation
• Religious and Political Space in the Classical and Hellenistic World
• Responses to Rome from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
• Roman Letters
• The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
• The Archaeology of Roman Britain
• The Athenian Empire
• The Greek World: Archaic and Classical Periods
• Transformations of Late Antiquity.

In your final year, you will write a dissertation.

We offer an MA Classical Civilisation/Classics.

Graduates go on to careers in museums and galleries, as researchers or archivists, and in education.

• Applications from January.
• Admission based on interviews, which are usually held from March onwards.