DPT: Scottish Literature and Classics (MA Hons) (UTSLCLAMAH)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1A

Greek 1C

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1B

Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1C

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1B

Latin 1D

Selected courses must be passed

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: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Entry to Honours:
(1) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Scottish Literature 2A and 2B.
(2) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in 40 credits of second-year Classics courses. If Latin or Greek is chosen, a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Greek 2A/Greek 2A ex-beginners and Greek 2B; or Latin 2A/Latin 2A ex-beginners and Latin 2B is required.

Compulsory courses

Scottish Literature 2A

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Scottish Literature 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

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

Students on this degree programme are not permitted to take Literary Studies 2A or 2B.

Year 3 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:

1. Honours option for Classics.
2. Honours option for Classics.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. English Literature Critical Practice courses (2 x 10 credits) OR Honours option for Classics.
6. English Literature Critical Practice courses (2 x 10 credits) OR Honours option for Classics.

From Fourth Year:

7. Honours option for Classics.
8. Honours option for Classics.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or Classics.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or Classics.

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

Course options

Select one 20-credit course during Semester 1 and one during Semester 2 from English Literature 3 Honours options.

Selected courses must be passed

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Critical Practice: Prose

Critical Practice: Poetry

Critical Practice: Performance

Critical Practice: Criticism

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Studying Ancient History 1

Studying Ancient History 3

Studying Ancient History 4

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

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

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Piecing Together the Cultural Fragments of Ionia (Archaic Period)

The Ancient Novel

Troy after the Fall

Roman Satire

Topic In Classical Literature 1

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Lucretius in Translation

Plato's Republic in Translation

Changing Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Greek Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Greek language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

AND

Latin Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Latin language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature

AND

Greek Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Greek language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

Latin Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Latin language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature

Selected courses must be passed

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Studying Ancient History 1

Studying Ancient History 3

Studying Ancient History 4

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

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

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Piecing Together the Cultural Fragments of Ionia (Archaic Period)

The Ancient Novel

Troy after the Fall

Roman Satire

Topic In Classical Literature 1

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Lucretius in Translation

Plato's Republic in Translation

Changing Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

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

Course options

Classics Dissertation

English Literature Dissertation

AND

The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock

Boundaries of the Human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective

Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge

Latin America: History and Culture Entwined

The Great Russian Novel

AND

Select from English Literature 4 Honours Option courses.

AND

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

Greek Language (B)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

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 Satire

Latin Language (B)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature

The Greek and Latin language beginners courses at Honours level (GREE10017, GREE10018, GREE10027, GREEa0028; LATI10017, LATI10018, LATI10030, LATI10031) can only be taken if the language has not been studied previously.

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Studying Ancient History 1

Studying Ancient History 3

Studying Ancient History 4

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

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