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BA Classical Literature and Philosophy

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll have advanced communication skills, which allow you to present and defend your ideas confidently and clearly. You’ll also have strong independent research skills and be able to think critically about the information you find. You’ll also have the teamwork and organisational skills needed to handle two different subjects.

This means our graduates are in a great position to succeed in diverse careers. They’ve gone into publishing, law, journalism, education, advertising and marketing, business and finance, the charity sector, and the civil service. Many have also continued to postgraduate study.

General Eligibility

A-level: ABB

Other course specific tests:

When an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be BBB at A Level and grade A in the EPQ.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Greek Poets

  • Roman Poets

  • How to Think Clearly and Argue Well

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Ancient Lives

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 1)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Beginners Latin

  • Magic, Science and Religion

  • History of Psychology

  • Introduction to the History of Science

  • Darwin, Germs and the Bomb

  • The Mind

  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

  • The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong

  • Knowledge, Self and Reality

  • How Science Works

  • Great Philosophical Thinkers

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Evidence and Enquiry in Classics

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

  • Virgil's Aeneid

  • Homer's Iliad

  • Ancient Empires: Power and Control

  • Ovid the Innovator

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 2)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)

  • Beginners Latin (Level 2)

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • The Athenian Empire

  • Herodotus and the Beginning of History

  • Invisible Greeks and Romans

  • Augustus and his Legacy

  • Plato on Love

  • Greek Tragedy

  • The City in the Roman World

  • Beginners Latin (Level 2)

  • Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)

  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • Major Research Project

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • The Athenian Empire

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 3)

  • Herodotus and the Beginning of History

  • Ovid the Innovator

  • The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

  • Augustus and his Legacy

  • The Ancient Greek Novel

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

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • Beginners Latin (Level 3)

  • Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)

  • Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents

  • Kant

  • Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

  • Metaethics

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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