DPT: Classical Archaeology and Ancient History MA (Hons) (UTMAHCLAAH1F)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

First year students on this programme will be asked to complete a pre-course enrolment form online, prior to arriving in Welcome Week. Full details on how to do this will be provided in the email we send to you in late August. Please consider the following courses.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.
Students must pass a minimum of 80 credits, including passes in The Greek World 1A, The Greek World 1B, The Roman World 1A, The Roman World 1B, Classical Archaeology in the Field and the Museum, to be eligible to progress into Year 2.

Compulsory courses

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

Must be passed

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

Must be passed

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

Must be passed

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

Must be passed

Classical Archaeology in the Field and the Museum

Must be passed

Course options

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

All second year students will be asked to complete a course enrolment form online from the selection below. Full details will be provided by email.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 2. 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.

Compulsory courses

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

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Roman Art and Archaeology

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Greek Art and Archaeology

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

This course is recommended for your degree

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

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, 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 Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World, Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History, Roman Art and Archaeology, and Greek Art and Archaeology.

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

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.

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

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

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Roman History Seminar 1

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

Marine Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Troy after the Fall

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

AND

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

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

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

AND

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

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

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

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Roman History Seminar 1

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

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

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.