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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2020/2021

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Year 1 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses and the MSc Dissertation. Credits are normally split across the two academic years.

Compulsory courses

Skills and Methods in Classics

Course options

Students must study 60 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC

Archaeological Illustration

Human Evolution

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

Issues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

Quantitative Methods and Reasoning in Archaeology

Themes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle Kingdom

Archaeology of Late Antique Religion

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Death and Burial in the Greek World

AND

Students must study 0-40 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC

Archaeological Illustration

Elementary Latin (PG) 1

Elementary Latin (PG) 2

Elementary Greek (PG) 1

Elementary Greek (PG) 2

Epicurus and Epicureanism

The Hellenistic City

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

Intermediate Latin (PG) 1

Intermediate Latin (PG) 2

Intermediate Greek (PG) 1

Intermediate Greek (PG) 2

Greek Text Seminar 1

Latin Text Seminar 1

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Byzantine Text Seminar 2

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

AND

Students can choose to study 0-20 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

There are no Classics online courses running in 2019/20

Ancient Egyptian Religion and the Afterlife (online)

Athenian democracy and modern preoccupations (online)

Running the Roman Empire (online)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: An Introduction (online)

The Origins of Agriculture: Reconsidering the Neolithic (online)

Year 2 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses and the MSc Dissertation. Credits are normally split across the two academic years.

Compulsory courses

MSc Dissertation - Classical Art and Archaeology

Course options

Students must study 60 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC

Archaeological Illustration

Human Evolution

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

Issues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

Quantitative Methods and Reasoning in Archaeology

Themes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle Kingdom

Archaeology of Late Antique Religion

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Death and Burial in the Greek World

AND

Students must study 0-40 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC

Archaeological Illustration

Elementary Latin (PG) 1

Elementary Latin (PG) 2

Elementary Greek (PG) 1

Elementary Greek (PG) 2

Epicurus and Epicureanism

The Hellenistic City

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

Intermediate Latin (PG) 1

Intermediate Latin (PG) 2

Intermediate Greek (PG) 1

Intermediate Greek (PG) 2

Greek Text Seminar 1

Latin Text Seminar 1

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Byzantine Text Seminar 2

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

AND

Students can choose to study 0-20 credits from this list over the duration of their degree.

There are no Classics online courses running in 2019/20

Ancient Egyptian Religion and the Afterlife (online)

Athenian democracy and modern preoccupations (online)

Running the Roman Empire (online)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: An Introduction (online)

The Origins of Agriculture: Reconsidering the Neolithic (online)

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