BA Classical Studies and English Literature

Description:
The programme in Classical Studies and English offers the opportunity to combine the study of ancient literature, art, society, religion and philosophy through texts in translation with an in-depth study of English literature.

Year 1

Fifth-Century Athens
Augustan Rome
Languages of Literature
Revisioning Shakespeare
What Kind of Text is This?

Optional modules
Greek Myths
Latin
Ancient Greek

Year 2

Compulsory modules: two from among
Ancient Epic
Greek Drama
Roman Love Poetry

Optional modules including:
Greece and Egypt
Greek and Roman Sculpture
Greek and Roman Medicine
Roman Epic
Roman Drama
Greek Religion
Uses and Abuses of Antiquity
Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Latin
Ancient Greek
Renaissance Texts & Cultures
Modern Drama
Romantics to Decadents
Modernity & Cultural Crisis
Writing America
Film Narrative
Literary Criticism & Theory
Communications at Work
Women's Writing

Final Year

Compulsory module
Joint Dissertation

Optional modules from a list that may include:
Gender
Ancient Biography
Greek and Roman Painting
Roman Religions
Renaissance Medicine
Classics and Empire
Receptions of Homer
Latin
Ancient Greek
From Troy to Camelot: Medieval Romance
Renaissance Women Writing
The Roots of Gothic
Victorian Sensation Novels
Children's Literature
American Poetry
Jane Austen & the Courtship Novel
The Literature of Science