DPT: Classics (MA Hons) (UTCLSCS)

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

Students must choose two paired language courses from this collection.

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

AND

Students are recommended to take two more paired language courses, but they may also choose from Ancient History options

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.

The following courses are recommended for your degree: CLGE08001: The Greek World 1A, CLGE08002: The Greek World 1B, CLGE08003: The Roman World 1A, CLGE08004: The Roman World 1B. These courses are pre-requisites for some optional courses in your Honours years.

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.

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

Latin 2B

Must be passed

Ancient Greek 2B

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 2A

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

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

The following courses are recommended for your degree: ANHI08016: Ancient Historiography, ANHI08017: Themes and Theories in Ancient History, ANHI08015: The Transformation of the Roman World, CACA08012: Greek Art and Archaeology, CACA08011: Roman Art and Archaeology, CLTR08009: Classical Literature. These courses are pre-requisites for some optional courses in your Honours years.

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 Greek 2A and Ancient Greek 2B or in Ancient Greek 2a Ex-Beginners and Ancient Greek 2B,
(iii) passes in Latin 2A and Latin 2B or in Latin 2a Ex-Beginners and Latin 2B.

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.

Compulsory courses

Latin Language (A)

Ancient Greek Language (A)

Course options

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

AND

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

Early Virgil

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.

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.

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, 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.

Compulsory courses

Classics Dissertation

Course options

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

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

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.

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

General Disclaimer

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

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

Degree Programme Table: Classics (MA Hons) (UTCLSCS)

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

Course options

Year 1 Classics Language Courses

Year 1 Classics 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 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Ancient Greek 2A or Ancient Greek 2A ex-beginners

Latin 2A or Latin 2A ex-beginners

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

Compulsory courses

Course options

Group A

Ancient Greek Honours Courses Year 3

Latin Honours Courses Year 3

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

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

Compulsory courses

Course options

Ancient Greek Honours Courses Year 4

Latin Honours Courses Year 4