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BA Ancient History and History

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll be capable of researching complex topics independently and thinking critically about information from different sources. You’ll be analytical and have highly developed communication skills. You’ll also have organisational and time management skills. In addition, studying for a joint honours degree allows you to become intellectually versatile as you switch between different disciplines.

Graduates from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures go on to a wide range of careers, including publishing, the armed forces, journalism, law, curatorship, the civil service, advertising and marketing, education, business and finance and the charity sector. Some of our graduate's progress onto postgraduate study.

We do everything we can to help prepare you for your career. Student-run career groups allow you to get together with other students who share your career ambitions. At the same time, you could also become a peer mentor under our scheme or apply for one of the internships offered every year.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB including A in History if taken

Other course specific tests:

Where 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 ABB at A Level including A in History (if taken) 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

  • The Greek World: An Introduction

  • The Roman World: An Introduction

  • Exploring History

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Ancient Lives

  • Introduction to Classical Archaeology

  • Beginners Latin

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 1)

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 1)

  • Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750

  • The Medieval World in Ten Objects

  • Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs

  • Global Empires

  • Global Decolonization

  • The Making of the Twentieth Century

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Evidence and Enquiry in Classics

  • Ancient Empires: Power and Control

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • The Athenian Empire

  • Herodotus and the Beginning of History

  • The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

  • Invisible Greeks and Romans

  • Roman Comedy

  • Augustus and his Legacy

  • The Ancient Greek Novel

  • Screening Antiquity

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

  • The Image of Sparta

  • Greek Art and Society

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 2)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)

  • Beginners Latin (Level 2)

  • The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603

  • Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-1945

  • Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700

  • Medieval Romans and the shape of Afro-Eurasia today

  • Britain and the Atlantic World

  • Imperial Germany 1871-1918

  • The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750

  • 20th Century Britain: Progress and Uncertainty 1945-1990

  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993

  • Life and Death in British India, 1690-1871

  • America and the Sixties

  • Bass Culture in Modern Britain

  • The History of Africa since 1900

  • Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama

  • Thinking about History

  • Histories of Black Britain

  • Global Business History

  • Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • Major Research Project

  • The Athenian Empire

  • Herodotus and the Beginning of History

  • Ovid the Innovator

  • The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

  • Augustus and his Legacy

  • The Ancient Greek Novel

  • Screening Antiquity

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

  • The Image of Sparta

  • Plato on Love

  • Greek Religion

  • Greek Tragedy

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 3)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • Beginners Latin (Level 3)

  • Advanced Latin

  • Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement

  • Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.1500

  • Ordinary People: The Everyday Lives of Men, Women and Children in Britain, c. 1920s-50s

  • The Good Life: Global Commodities of Luxury and Leisure, 1492-1700

  • The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

  • Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998

  • Black British Culture and Black British Cultural Studies

  • Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education

  • The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968

  • War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660

  • Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800

  • Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic

  • White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power

  • Georgians at War

  • The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire

  • Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion

  • Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State

  • Men and Masculinity in Britain, c.1860-1960: War, Work and Home

  • Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888

  • Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics

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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