Bachelor of Ancient History

Modules

Year 1

Our first-year core modules are designed as an introduction. This means that even if you haven’t studied ancient history before, we’ll build everyone's knowledge to the same level, so you can progress through to year two.

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (80 credits) – you will focus on thinking about the nature of ancient history as a discipline and developing the skills required for researching, writing and debating
• Optional modules (40 credits) – these may be in ancient history, or in other subjects such as archaeology or history of art

You’ll have at least 12 hours of timetabled contact a week through lectures, seminars and tutorials.

You must pass year one, but it does not count towards your final degree classification.

Core modules

• Studying the Greek World
• Studying the Roman World
• Interpreting Ancient History
• Interpreting Ancient Literature
• Interpreting Ancient Art and Archaeology

Ancient History optional modules:
Choose up to 40 credits from a range, which may include:

• Understanding the Past I – Introduction to Archaeology
• Understanding the Past II – Landscapes and Surveying
• Comparative World Prehistory
• Rome to Revolution: Historical Archaeology of Britain.
• Beginners' Greek: 1
• Beginners' Greek: 2
• Beginners' Latin: 1
• Beginners' Latin: 2
• Greek Texts: 1
• Greek Texts: 2
• Latin Texts: 1
• Latin Texts: 2
• Greek and Roman Mythology

Optional modules from other departments
Choose up to 40 credits from a range that may include, but is not limited to:

• Modern language modules
• Producing Film and Television
• History of Art: Renaissance to Revolution
• Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
• History of Philosophy

Year 2

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (40 credits) – you will take Extended Source Study and Studying Classical Scholarship, to prepare you for third-year dissertation work
• Optional modules (80 credits) – your optional modules also include a changing selection of topics in Greek and Roman history and civilisation, and the opportunity to continue or start learning Greek or Latin

You’ll have at least 10 hours of timetabled contact a week through lectures, seminars and tutorials.

You must pass year two, which counts as 33% towards your final degree classification.

Core modules

• Extended Source Study
• Studying Classical Scholarship

Optional modules
Choose 80 credits from a range, which may include:

• Communicating the Past
• The Peloponnesian War
• Oedipus Through the Ages
• The Silk Road: Cultural Interactions and Perceptions
• Britain in the Later Roman Empire (c. 250-450)
• The World of the Etruscans
• The Origins and Rise of Aegean Civilisation
• Writing History in Ancient Rome
• Religion and the Romans
• Intermediate Greek: 1
• Intermediate Greek: 2
• Intermediate Latin: 1
• Intermediate Latin: 2
• Beginners Greek for second and third years: 1 and 2
• Beginners Latin for second and third years: 1 and 2
• Latin Texts: 3
• Latin Texts: 4

Year 3

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

• Compulsory core modules (80-120 credits) – you will take a minimum of two modules, but may take three
• Optional modules (0-40 credits) – you can also choose further option module topics or to continue or start Greek or Latin

You’ll have at least eight hours of timetabled contact a week through lectures, seminars and tutorials.

You must pass year three, which counts as 67% towards your final degree classification.

Special Subject/Dissertation modules
Choose 80-120 credits from a range, which may include:

• Dissertation in Ancient History
• Augustus
• Greek Work, Class and the Economy: Good and Bad Strife
• From Petra to Palmyra: Art and Culture in the Roman Near East
• Jason and the Golden Fleece

Ancient History optional modules

• Choose 0-40 credits from a range, which may include the following:
• The Peloponnesian War
• Religion and the Romans
• Oedipus Through the Ages
• The Silk Road: Cultural Interactions and Perceptions
• Britain in the Later Roman Empire (c. 250-450)
• The World of the Etruscans
• Writing History in Ancient Rome
• Intermediate Greek: 1
• Intermediate Greek: 2
• Intermediate Latin: 1
• Intermediate Latin: 2
• Advanced Greek: 1
• Advanced Greek: 2
• Advanced Latin: 1
• Advanced Latin: 2
• Beginners Greek for second and third years: 1 and 2
• Beginners Latin for second and third years: 1 and 2
• Latin Texts: 5
• Latin Texts: 6