BA Ancient History and English

Compulsory modules

• The Greek World: An Introduction

• The Roman World: An Introduction

• Foundations of English Studies

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

• Ancient Lives

• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)

• Intermediate Latin (Level 1)

• Introduction to Classical Archaeology

• Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)

• Beginners Latin

• Remixing the Renaissance

• Twentieth-Century Fiction in English

• Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation

• Prose: Reading and Interpretation

• Poetry: Reading and Interpretation

• Drama: Reading and Interpretation

• Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic

• Race, Writing and Decolonization

• The Creative Essay: From Idea to Submission

• Approaches to Theatre and Performance 1

Compulsory modules

• Evidence and Enquiry in Classics

• Ancient Empires: Power and Control

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)

• Intermediate Latin (Level 2)

• Herodotus and the Beginning of History

• The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

• Invisible Greeks and Romans

• Roman Comedy

• Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)

• Beginners Latin (Level 2)

• Medieval Literature

• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writing

• Literature of the Romantic Period

• Renaissance Literature

• Victorian Literature

• American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present

• Power of Language

• Language in Society

• Dialect and Heritage

• Where the Wild Things Are: Animals in Childrens Literature

• ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Physical Disability in Contemporary Literature and Film

• Writing for Fame: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Culture of Celebrity

• Environmental Literature

• Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety

• Milton

• Language of the Media

• Contemporary South African Writing

• Surrealism and the French Stage

• Romantic Lyric Poetry

• Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways, We Use Them

• Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England

• Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)

• Ovid the Innovator

• Black Europe

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

• Major Research Project

• Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)

• Intermediate Latin (Level 3)

• Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)

• Beginners Latin (Level 3)

• Final Year Project

• Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

• The Athenian Empire

• Herodotus and the Beginning of History

• The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

• Augustus and his Legacy

• Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present

• The Image of Sparta

• Greek Art and Society

• Greek Religion

• Modern Literature

• Postcolonial Literature

• Contemporary Literature

• Shakespeare