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First year programme - Flexible Combined Honours

Xante, Germany - reconstructed Roman city gatewayClassical Studies offers access to the culture and thought of the ancient world through its literature and artefacts. Texts are usually taught in translation, but you also have the opportunity to learn Greek or Latin during your first two years if you want.

You look at the subject from a variety of angles (literary, literary-critical, philosophical, cultural-historical, art-historical) and are also encouraged to question the many intellectual and political uses to which the Classical world is put in the modern world.

One compulsory module is taken in the first year:

Either

  • Greek and Roman Narrative - CLA1005 (30 credits)

or

  • Greek and Roman Drama - CLA1006 (30 credits)

The two modules are taught in alternate years, so you take whichever is being offered the year you start your degree. The module that is not running that year is taken in your second year.

One module is chosen from the group known as Text and Context - some examples of modules:

  • Early Greek Poetry - CLA1401 (15 credits)
  • Ancient Novels - CLA1403 (15 credits)
  • Roman Laughter - CLA1405 (15 credits)
  • Suetonius and Imperial power - CLA1408 (15 credits)

One module is chosen from the groups Ancient Sources or Ancient World, or a second module can be taken from Text and Context:

Ancient Sources - some examples of modules:

  • Tyranny - CLA1301 (15 credits)
  • Greek Historiography to the End of the Fifth Century BC - CLA1302 (15 credits)
  • Roman Historical Writing - CLA1303 (15 credits)
  • Nature and Culture - CLA1305 (15 credits)

Ancient World - some examples of modules:

  • Building Communities in Archaic Greece - CLA1503 (15 credits)
  • Greek Philosophy - CLA1507 (15 credits)
  • Roman Philosophy - CLA1508 (15 credits)
  • Roman Religion - CLA1510 (15 credits)

The modules available each year vary, in part as some are taught in alternate years. Check the departmental list to see the modules available in the current year.

If you want to learn Greek or Latin, or develop your existing abilities, the optional modules listed above are replaced by the appropriate language module (30 credits).

Overall the compulsory and chosen modules make a total of 60 credits in this half of your Flexible Combined Honours programme.

Classics and Ancient History department.