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

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Year 3 Academic year: 2023/24, 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.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

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

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

Course options

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

The Severans

Roman Slavery

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

Hellenistic Egypt: Society, Economy and Culture (332BC - 31BC)

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Mysteria: The Secret Cults of Antiquity

Ancient Slavery in Comparative Perspective

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Dispute Resolution in the Roman Empire

Documenting Life in the Roman Empire

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

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

The Archaeology of Children and Childhood

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

A Topic in Classical Archaeology 1

Roman Architecture

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert

Classical Greek Sculpture

Tragedy

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Ancient Didactic Poetry

Topic In Classical Literature 1

Roman Tragedy

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

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Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

AND

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

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

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: 2023/24, Starting in: August

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

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

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