BA Classical Studies and Religion
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA Classical Studies and Religion, a classics and theology and religion degree focused on ancient literary, historical, religious, cultural, political, philosophical and ethical issues. Core topics include Statistics, Fieldwork, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students examine classical and biblical texts alongside options to study ancient languages. The first year covers foundational study through compulsory modules such as Greek and Roman Narrative, Greek and Roman Drama, Religion and Material Culture, and Reform, Retreat and Reinvention: A History of Christianity. The second year continues with core study including Greek and Roman Narrative and Greek and Roman Drama. Optional modules across the degree allow specialisation in areas such as ancient philosophy, biblical studies, and the history of Christian traditions.
Modules
- Greek and Roman Narrative
- Greek and Roman Drama
- Religion and Material Culture
- Reform, Retreat and Reinvention: A History of Christianity
- 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
- Introduction to Islam
- Religious Communities of the Middle East: Culture, Endangerment and Survival
- Introducing Biblical Hebrew
- Religion in the Modern World
- The Bible: Past and Present
- What is Religion?
- Introducing Social-Scientific Approaches to Religion
- God and the World: Constructive Christian Theology
- Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
- Greek and Roman Narrative
- Greek and Roman Drama
- Ancient World: Racecraft
- Roman Death and Commemoration
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek II
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek IV
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin II
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin IV
- 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 III
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin III
- Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
- Reading New Testament Letters
- Building God's House: The Origins of Church Architecture
- The Invention of God
- Conflicts and Encounters between Religions: War, Peace, Politics and the Quest for Dialogue
- History of Encounters between Philosophy and Theology
- Poets as Theologians
- Jesus: Histories and Receptions
- Early Christians and the Jewish Law: Puzzling over Paul's Roman and Galatian Letters with Ancient and Modern Readers