BA Archaeology & Classical Studies

Description:
This programme offers students an opportunity to combine the study of ancient literature, art and society through texts in translation with archaeology.In Classical Studies students will examine the literature, art and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. In Archaeology, practical aspects involve participation in the Field School at the Roman town of Silchester.

Our joint degrees involve an even split between the two subjects with the opportunity to specialise in one of your subjects, or use both, in your dissertation.

Year 1

Compulsory Modules
Practising Archaeology
From Rome to Reformation
Fifth-Century Athens
Augustan Rome

Optional Modules
From Primates to Pyramids
Bones, Bodies and Burial
Analysing Museum Displays
Greek Myth
Latin
Ancient Greek

Modern Greek

Year 2

Compulsory Modules
ProfessionalCareers
At least two of the following:
Ancient Epic
Greek Drama
Roman Love Poetry
Optional Modules
Archaeological Thought
Archaeological Science
The Middle Palaeolithic of Europe
Later Prehistoric Europe
First civilisations: complex societies in the Bronze Age east Mediterranean
The Aegean in the first millennium BC and the emergence of the polis state
Rome & the Mediterranean
Early Medieval Europe
Later Medieval Europe

Greece and Egypt
Greek & Roman Painting
Religions of the Roman World
Ancient Medicine

Greek History
Roman Republic Roman Empire

Latin
Ancient Greek Modern Greek

Final Year

Dissertation
Optional Modules

Options from a list including:
Ancient Biography
Conversion of the Roman Empire
Roman Life Cycle
Ancient Novel
Ancient Medicine
Rome on Film
Gender in the Ancient World
Latin
Ancient GreekModern Greek

Burial Archaeology
Gender Archaeology
Museum Studies
Palaeopathology
Studies in the Lower Palaeolithic
Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
Ancient Aegean landscapes

British Prehistory
Early Anglo-Saxon England
Roman Material Culture

Roman Britain
England in the Later Middle Ages