BA History and Ancient History
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB IB: 34/665 BTEC: DDD
About this course
BA in History and Ancient History, a History and Classics degree encompassing political ideas and societal developments across multiple eras. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students can study across a period spanning 1,500 years and choose to learn a classical language starting in the first year. The first year covers foundational historical approaches through compulsory modules such as Greek History: Problems and Sources, Roman History: Problems and Sources, Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History, Understanding Modern History, and Becoming a Historian: Core. The second year continues with core studies in Greek History: Problems and Sources and Roman History: Problems and Sources. Optional modules throughout the course allow students to explore diverse subjects such as Roman Philosophy, Strategy and Success in the Second World War, and Classical Language and Texts Greek I (A).
Modules
- Greek History: Problems and Sources
- Roman History: Problems and Sources
- Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History
- Understanding Modern History
- Becoming a Historian: Core
- 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
- Climate Emergency! An Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Sources and Skills: Modern
- Sources and Skills: Early Modern
- Sources and Skills: Medieval
- 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)
- Text and Context: Women in Homer
- Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Globalisation and the Roman Empire
- Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Greek Historiography
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek II
- Classical Language and Texts: Greek III
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin II
- Classical Language and Texts: Latin III
- Greek History: Problems and Sources
- Roman History: Problems and Sources
- 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
- Adventures in Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe
- Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England
- From Gallows to ASBOs: Crime, Punishment, and Society in Britain and Ireland
- Strategy and Success in the Second World War
- Vikings and Other Invaders: Europe under Siege in in the Tenth Century
- Beyond Bridgerton: A Peoples' History of Britain, 1688-1834
- Creating an American Empire: From Westward Expansion to Colonial Empire
- Hunger Games: Poverty, Famine, and Environment
- Russia’s Empires: Societies, Peoples and Cultures
- Beyond the Tudors: Europe’s Worldview Transformed c.1500-1600
- Uses of the Past
- Doing History in the Digital Age