BA Classical Literature and English
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DDM. Other BTEC qualifications are also considered. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Classical Literature and English, an English Literature and Classics degree centred on the study of classical heritage alongside literature from various periods. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a final year project and may study historical archives and collections. The first year covers the foundations through Greek Poets, Roman Poets, Modern Fictions in English and Poetry: Reading and Interpretation. The second year progresses with Evidence and Enquiry in Classics, Virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Iliad and Medieval and Tudor Literature. The third year builds towards advanced study through modules such as Major Research Project, Final Year Project, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing and Shakespeare.
Modules
- Greek Poets
- Roman Poets
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Ancient Lives
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)
- Intermediate Latin (Level 1)
- Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)
- Beginners Latin
- Modern Fictions in English
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Race, Writing and Decolonisation
- Evidence and Enquiry in Classics
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Homer's Iliad
- Traversing Time: the Voyage of Argo
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)
- Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
- Intermediate Latin (Level 2)
- The World of Herodotus
- The Rise of Rome: Myth and History
- Ancient Comedy
- Augustus and his Legacy
- The Ancient Novel
- Screening Antiquity
- Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present
- Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)
- Beginners Latin (Level 2)
- Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)
- Happiness and the Good Life in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- Medieval and Tudor Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- Major Research Project
- Textual Editing Project
- Final Year Project
- Thinkers and Storytellers: Myth and Reason in the Ancient World
- The World of Herodotus
- The Worlds of Alexander the Great
- The Rise of Rome: Myth and History
- Augustus and his Legacy
- The Ancient Novel
- Screening Antiquity
- Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present
- The Image of Sparta
- Time, Space and Place in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- Greek Religion
- Greek Tragedy
- The City in the Roman World
- Ancient Comedy
- Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections
- Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo
- Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)
- Intermediate Latin (Level 3)
- Advanced Latin
- Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)
- Beginners Latin (Level 3)
- Advanced Greek
- Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing
- Literature of the Romantic Period
- Renaissance Literature
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Shakespeare
- Forming Victorian Fiction
- Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents
- Decolonial Approaches
- Social Movements across Cultures