BA Classical Studies and History of Art

Description:
The course aims to provide a thorough degree level education in Classical and Art Historical studies. In Classics it aims to produce graduates who have experiences of literary, thematic and genre-based approaches to the cultures of antiquity. The History of Art element gives students a broad perspective on Western art and architecture since the Middle Ages, as well the ability to acquire specialist knowledge of chosen periods. The programme will provide a basis for interpreting primary and secondary sources of evidence, understanding methods of analysis, and appreciating the changing nature of each discipline's priorities and approaches, and will promote a critical understanding of the relationship between contemporary conceptions of art and architecture and those of the past.

Compulsory Modules
Fifth Century Athens
Augustan Rome
History of Art and Architecture Workshop

Optional Modules
Greek Myths
Latin
Ancient Greek
Art's Histories: a survey
Makers and making: artist, architects and their practices

Year 2

Compulsory Modules

In Classical Studies, two of the following:
Ancient Epic
Greek Drama
Roman Love Poetry
Study Trip Abroad
Distance and difference: perspectives on art, architecture and visual culture

Optional Modules: choose from a list that may include

Greece and Egypt
Greek Sculpture
Greek and Roman Medicine
Macedonian History
Uses and Abuses of Antiquity
Roman Drama
Roman Epic
Greek Religion
Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Latin
Ancient Greek
HA2APArt and Power in fifteenth-century Italy
HA2AA Altars, Aristocrats and Guillotines
HA2HHHeroes and Hero Worship
HA2MA Modern Art and Architecture and its Discontents

Year 3

Compulsory Modules

Dissertation

OptionalModules: choose from a list that may include

Gender
Ancient Biography
Greek and Roman Painting
Roman Religions
Renaissance Medicine
Classics and Empire
Anatolia and the Aegean
Receptions of Homer
Latin
Ancient Greek
Brunelleschi and Renaissance architecture
Palladio: architecture and science
Italian Renaissance Portraiture
Raphael
Annibale Carracci and Painting in Rome c. 1600
Architecture and Memory
Delacroix, Romanticism and French nineteenth-century painting
Goya: Reason and Superstition in the Spanish Enlightenment
Figuring the Female Body
Landscape Art in Britain and France: Place and Meaning
Art, War and Gender in the twentieth century
Bodies of Difference: Mapping contemporary art
Space and Place: Architecture and the Monument
Museum theory, history and ethics
Object analysis and museum interpretation