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Modules

Year 1

Our first-year core modules are designed as an introduction. This means that even if you haven’t studied classics 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. Your split of core and optional modules will be dependent on your current language abilities. For example, if you have an A level in either Greek or Latin, you will study both languages from the start. If you are a beginner in both languages, you will choose either Greek or Latin in year one.

Scenario 1: you have an A level in either Greek or Latin

• Compulsory core modules (100 credits) – you will receive an integrated introduction to the history and culture of Greece and Rome and their reception. You will take text modules in your A level language, and beginners modules in the second language
• Optional Classics modules (20 credits) – you will choose one module

Scenario 2: you are a beginner in both Greek and Latin

• Compulsory core modules (60 credits) – you will receive an integrated introduction to the history and culture of Greece and Rome and their reception. You will start to learn either Greek or Latin
• Optional Classics modules (60 credits) – you will choose at least one 'interpreting' module

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.

Scenarios 1 and 2: core modules

• Studying the Greek World
• Studying the Roman World

Scenario 1: language modules if you have A level Latin

• Latin Texts: 1
• Latin Texts: 2
• Beginners' Greek: 1
• Beginners' Greek: 2

Scenario 1: language modules if you have A level Greek

• Greek Texts: 1
• Greek Texts: 2
• Beginners' Latin: 1
• Beginners' Latin: 2

Scenario 1: choose one from the below

• Interpreting Ancient Art and Archaeology
• Interpreting Ancient History
• Interpreting Ancient Literature

Scenario 2: beginners' languages - choose either

• Beginners' Latin: 1
• Beginners' Latin: 2

Or

• Beginners' Greek: 1
• Beginners' Greek: 2

Scenario 2: choose 20-60 credits from

• Interpreting Ancient Art and Archaeology
• Interpreting Ancient History
• Interpreting Ancient Literature

Scenario 2: choose 0-20 credits from

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

Year 2

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

Scenario 1: If you started the course with an A level in either Greek or Latin

• Compulsory core modules (80 credits) – you will take text modules in your A level language, and intermediate modules in your second language
• Optional Classics modules (40 credits) – choose from a range of modules, including a work placement module. If you are planning a dissertation in your third year, you must take the Studying Classical Scholarship module

Scenario 2: If you started the course as a beginner in both Greek and Latin

• Compulsory core modules (80 credits) – you will take intermediate modules in your year 1 language and start as a beginner in your second language
• Optional Classics modules (40 credits) – choose from a range of modules, including a work placement module. If you are planning a dissertation in your third year, you must take the Studying Classical Scholarship module

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.

Scenario 1: core modules if you started the course with A level Latin or Greek

• Intermediate Greek: 1
• Intermediate Greek: 2
• Latin Texts: 3
• Latin Texts: 4
• Intermediate Latin: 1
• Intermediate Latin: 2
• Greek Texts: 3
• Greek Texts: 4

Scenario 2: core modules if you started as a beginner in both Latin and Greek
You will develop your year one language, and start your second language as a beginner. 

Core modules if you took Beginners' Latin in year 1

• Intermediate Latin: 1
• Intermediate Latin: 2
• Beginners' Greek: 1
• Beginners' Greek: 2

Core modules if you took Beginners' Greek in year 1

• Intermediate Greek: 1
• Intermediate Greek: 2
• Beginners' Latin: 1
• Beginners' Latin: 2

Scenarios 1 and 2 optional modules
Choose 40 credits from a range (this varies every year, but might include the below).

If you are planning a dissertation in your third year, you must take the Studying Classical Scholarship module.

• Extended Source Study
• Studying Classical Scholarship
• The Peloponnesian War
• Writing History in Ancient Rome
• Religion and the Romans
• Communicating the Past
• The World of the Etruscans
• Britain in the Later Roman Empire (c. 250-450)
• The Silk Road: Cultural Interactions and Perceptions
• Oedipus Through the Ages

Year 3

You will take 120 credits of modules split as follows:

Scenario 1: If you started the course with an A level in either Greek or Latin

• Compulsory core modules (40 credits) – you will continue with Latin or Greek language modules at the appropriate level
• Optional Classics modules (80 credits) – choose from a range of optional modules, including continuing with your second language at the appropriate level, and a dissertation (if you took the Studying Classical Scholarship module in year two)

Scenario 2: If you started the course as a beginner in both Greek and Latin

• Compulsory core modules (80 credits) – you will continue with Latin and Greek language modules at the appropriate level
• Optional Classics modules (40 credits) – choose from a range of optional modules, including continuing with your second language at the appropriate level, and a dissertation (if you took the Studying Classical Scholarship module in year two)

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.

Scenario 1: core language modules if you started the course with A level Latin or Greek

• Advanced Greek: 1
• Advanced Greek: 2

Or

• Advanced Latin: 1
• Advanced Latin: 2

Scenario 2: core language modules if you started as a beginner in both Greek and Latin
You will continue with your year 1 language to advanced level and your year 2 language to intermediate level.

If you took Beginners' Latin in year 1

• Advanced Latin: 1
• Advanced Latin: 2
• Intermediate Greek: 1
• Intermediate Greek: 2
• If you took Beginners' Greek in year 1
• Advanced Greek: 1
• Advanced Greek: 2
• Intermediate Latin: 1
• Intermediate Latin: 2

Optional modules
Scenario 1: choose 80 credits

Scenario 2: choose 40 credits

You may only choose the Classics Dissertation module if you took the Studying Classical Scholarship module in year two.

Year-long 40-credit modules:

• Dissertation in Classics and Archaeology
• Augustus
• Jason and the Golden Fleece
• Greek Work, Class and the Economy: Good and Bad Strife
• From Petra to Palmyra: Art and Culture in the Roman Near East
• Additional 10 and 20 credit modules. Choose from a range not already taken in year two: 
• 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