DPT: Classical and Middle East Studies (MA Hons) (UTCLMSTMAH)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, 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.

Compulsory courses

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Must be passed

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Must be passed

Course options

20 credits should be taken in Semester 1 and 20 credits in Semester 2.

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

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

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

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

Course options

20 credits must be from either Ancient History 2a or Ancient History 2b.

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

AND

Introduction to Islam

Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Entry into the third year normally requires:
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years
(ii) a mark of 50% or above, at first attempt, in 40 credits of second level Classics courses and in 40 credits of second level IMES course/s.

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

The courses chosen in Years 1 and 2 will determine a student's Classics course choices at Honours level.

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

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

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

Course options

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

The History of Republican Italy through Inscribed Objects

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

The Roman Emperor: the Nature of His Rule

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

Bible and Archaeology

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Athenian Akropolis

Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present

A Visual History of the Later Roman World

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

The Punic Mediterranean

The History of North Africa from the Iron Age to the Islamic Conquest

Communities of Byzantine Asia Minor, AD 500-1300

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

Tragedy

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Didactic Poetry

Beauty and the Greeks: Aesthetic approaches in Greek literature (in translation)

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

AND

The relevant language course is not available at Honours level if already taken in 1st and 2nd year.

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Turkish for Beginners at Honours Level

Persian for Beginners at Honours Level

Arabic for Beginners at Honours Level (b)

Undergraduate Course: Arabic for Beginners at Honours Level (a)

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, 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.

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