BA Classical Studies and English
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB IB: 34/665 BTEC: DDD
About this course
BA in Classical Studies and English is an undergraduate degree in English and Classics that bridges ancient civilizations and literary history. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students can choose to study optional Ancient Greek or Latin language modules alongside their core studies. The first year establishes core foundations through compulsory modules such as Greek and Roman Narrative, Greek and Roman Drama, and Beginnings: English Literature before 1800. Students can also tailor their studies with optional choices like Ancient World: Racecraft, Roman Death and Commemoration, and The Novel. The second year continues disciplinary exploration with compulsory modules including Greek and Roman Narrative and Greek and Roman Drama. Further specialisation is available through a broad range of optional modules spanning topics such as Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640, Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings, and Creative Writing: Building a Story.
Modules
- Greek and Roman Narrative
- Greek and Roman Drama
- Beginnings: English Literature before 1800
- Ancient World: Racecraft
- Roman Death and Commemoration
- Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Tyranny
- Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus
- Text and Context: Roman Laughter
- Text and Context: Writing Women in Ancient Literature
- Ancient World: Roman Philosophy
- Classical Language and Texts Greek I (A)
- Classical Language and Texts Greek I (B)
- Classical Language and Texts Latin I (A)
- Classical Language and Texts Latin I (B)
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek II
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek III
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin II
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin III
- Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry
- The Novel
- The Poem
- Academic English
- Rethinking Shakespeare
- Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing
- Greek and Roman Narrative
- Greek and Roman Drama
- Ancient World: Racecraft
- Roman Death and Commemoration
- Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Tyranny
- Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Brave New Rome of Augustus
- Text and Context: Roman Laughter
- Text and Context: Writing Women in Ancient Literature
- Ancient World: Roman Philosophy
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek II
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek IV
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin II
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin IV
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek III
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin III
- Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640
- Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England
- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Renaissance and Revolution
- Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750
- Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings
- Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960
- Romanticism
- Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Creative Writing: Building a Story
- Creative Writing: Making a Poem
- British Cultures: The Exeter Seminar
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory
- Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World