DPT: Ancient History (MA Hons) (UTANHIS)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, 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, 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

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.

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, 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 Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Ancient Historiography and Themes and Theories in Ancient History are compulsory for your degree and therefore cannot be taken as part of this collection of courses.

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

Selected courses must be passed

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

Ancient Historiography

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Epic

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

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.

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, 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) a mark of 50% or above, at first attempt, in both Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World and Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History (from 2025/6 the courses will be renamed Ancient Historiography and Themes and Theories of Ancient History).

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.

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery: The Byzantine World in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

GIS for Archaeologists

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

Marine Archaeology

Data Science for the Past: from points to pictures

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Reading Greek Prophecy

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

AND

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

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery: The Byzantine World in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

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 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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Athenian Akropolis

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Roman Archaeology Seminar 1

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Classical Receptions

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Roman Tragedy

Reading Greek Prophecy

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient 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: 2025/26, 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.