DPT: Classical Studies (MA Hons) (UTCLSST)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, 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 to be eligible to progress into Year 2.

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.

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

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

You must take two of these courses as core courses. You can take more credits from these options as electives from the Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y collection subject to availability and timetabling.

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

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

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

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 Society with Big Data: Computational Social Science

Health in a Changing Climate

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Navigating Energy Transitions

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, 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.

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

Compulsory courses

Ancient Historiography

Must be passed

Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Epic

Must be passed

Course options

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

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

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 Society with Big Data: Computational Social Science

Health in a Changing Climate

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Navigating Energy Transitions

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Entry into the third year normally requires:
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years;
(ii) passes in Ancient Historiography and Classical Literature; and
(iii) passes in a further 40 credits of second level Classics courses.

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 course choices at Honours level.

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.

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

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

After Alexander

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

Dispute Resolution in the Roman Empire

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Greece and the Near East: Contacts, Conflicts, Exchanges

Herod the Great and the End of Hellenism

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)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Celtic Connections: the Archaeology of Iron Age Europe

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Roman Architecture

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

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

Art and Society in the Byzantine World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

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

Classical Mythology in the Renaissance

Odysseys: Afterlives of Homer from Dante to the Present

Making Saints: Hagiography and the Holy in Late Antiquity

The Ancient Novel

Roman Satire

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Jewish Greek Literature

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

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

AND

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

Herodotus

Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

Plato's Republic

Ancient Greek Language (A)

AND

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

Early Virgil

Latin Language (A)

Seneca the Younger

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

AND

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

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

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

Compulsory courses

Classics Dissertation

Course options

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

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

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

After Alexander

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

Dispute Resolution in the Roman Empire

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Greece and the Near East: Contacts, Conflicts, Exchanges

Herod the Great and the End of Hellenism

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)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Celtic Connections: the Archaeology of Iron Age Europe

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Roman Architecture

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

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

Art and Society in the Byzantine World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

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

Classical Mythology in the Renaissance

Odysseys: Afterlives of Homer from Dante to the Present

Making Saints: Hagiography and the Holy in Late Antiquity

The Ancient Novel

Roman Satire

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Jewish Greek Literature

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

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

AND

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

Herodotus

Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

Plato's Republic

Ancient Greek Language (B)

AND

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

Early Virgil

Latin Language (B)

Seneca the Younger

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

AND

The relevant beginner 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.

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

General Disclaimer

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

Degree Programme Table: Classical Studies (MA Hons) (UTCLSST)

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Course options

Greek World and Roman World Courses

Group A

Year 1 Classics Courses

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-R, T, W and Y

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Classical Studies Year 2 Courses

Group A

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-R, T, W and Y

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Course options

Group A

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology and Classical Literature in Translation Courses

Ancient Greek Honours Courses (including Ancient Greek Language A)

Latin Honours Courses (including Latin Language A)

Ancient Greek and Latin Beginner Languages Courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Group A

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology and Classical Literature in Translation Courses

Ancient Greek Honours Courses Year 4

Latin Honours Courses Year 4

Ancient Greek and Latin Beginner Languages Courses

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

Degree Programme Table: Classical Studies (MA Hons) (UTCLSST)

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Course options

Greek World and Roman World Courses

Year 1 Classics Courses

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-R, T, W and Y

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Classical Studies Year 2 Courses

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-R, T, W and Y

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Course options

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology and Classical Literature in Translation Courses

Ancient Greek Honours Courses (including Ancient Greek Language A)

Latin Honours Courses (including Latin Language A)

Ancient Greek and Latin Beginner Languages Courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology and Classical Literature in Translation Courses

Ancient Greek Honours Courses Year 4

Latin Honours Courses Year 4

Ancient Greek and Latin Beginner Languages Courses

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026