DPT: Latin Studies (MA Hons) (UTLATIN)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

All first year students should make an appointment with their Personal Tutor during Induction Week. Please consider your outside course options from the list of course options indicated below, and take a draft plan to your meeting with your Personal Tutor.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

AND

'The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome' and 'The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire', or 'Greek 1A' and 'Greek 1B', or 'Greek 1C' and 'Greek 1D' are recommended.

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor to confirm your course choices and attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Latin 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

Course(s) in second year must follow on from courses already passed in first year in the sense defined in the College Regulations.

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

Entry into the third year normally requires:
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years, and
(ii) passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Latin 2A and Latin 2B or in Latin 2a Ex-Beginners and Latin 2B .

Entry to honours in Classics remains at the discretion of the Head of Classics in the light of performance across all courses.

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Latin Language (A)

Course options

Latin Epic

Cicero the Advocate

Amor and Roma: Latin love-elegy

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

AND

Latin 1Ha/1Hb/2Ha/2Hb are not available as Honours choices for this degree.

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

The Emperor Nero

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

The History of Republican Italy through Inscribed Objects

Ideas of Slavery in Antiquity

Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

The New Testament and Graeco-Roman Culture

The Athenian Akropolis

Roman Architecture

Living on the Edge: the Archaeology of Roman Frontiers (1st-4th century AD)

History in Practice

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Approaching Alexander the Great: History, Themes and Traditions

The Legendary Afterlives of Alexander the Great

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Didactic Poetry

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Classics Dissertation

Course options

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Latin Epic

Latin Language (B)

Cicero the Advocate

Amor and Roma: Latin love-elegy

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

AND

Latin 1Ha/1Hb/2Ha/2Hb are not available as Honours choices for this degree.

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

The Emperor Nero

Roman Judaea