DPT: Latin Studies (MA Hons) (UTLATIN)

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.

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.

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, 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

The Latin Beginners Language courses are compulsory for your degree and therefore cannot be taken as part of this collection of courses.

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

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

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, 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

Cicero the Advocate

Neronian and Flavian Verse

Later Latin Poetry 1

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

AND

Lyric

Greek Comedy

Hellenistic Poetry

Socrates and Plato

AND

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

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

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

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

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.

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 Language (B)

Cicero the Advocate

Neronian and Flavian Verse

Later Latin Poetry 1

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

AND

Lyric

Greek Language (B)

Greek Comedy

Hellenistic Poetry

Socrates and Plato

AND