Classical Studies with Integrated Foundation Year
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: CCC-CCD (Required subjects: We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 24 points overall.
About this course
Classical Studies with Integrated Foundation Year, an undergraduate programme in Classics. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. After the Foundation Year, students normally progress onto the BA Classical Studies degree. A supervised Extended Essay of 8,000–10,000 words is required, and a year abroad is available.
Modules
- Cultures of Thinking
- Culture and Memory
- Society on Screen
- Textual Cultures
- Foundations of Classical Studies
- Studying Classical Antiquity
- Beginner’s Greek
- Intermediate Greek
- Beginner's Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Introduction to Greek Literature
- Roman Literature of the Empire
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- Greek History and the City State
- Key Themes in Roman History
- Introduction to Greek Archaeology
- Introduction to Roman Archaeology
- Advanced Greek
- Advanced Latin
- Intensive Latin
- Homer (In Translation)
- Greek Drama (In Translation)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Art and Power in Augustan Rome
- Virgil’s Aeneid: The Empire in the Literary Imagination
- Greek History to 322 BC
- Augustus: Propaganda and Power
- Historiography of the Roman World
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy
- Spinning the Past: Greek Historiography from Herodotos to Diodoros
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
- The Later Roman Empire
- Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
- From Dig to Digital: Archaeological Theory, Method and Practice
- Life in the Big City
- Intensive Greek
- Athenian Law and Social History
- Extended Essay (Dissertation)
- Further Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Alexander the Great
- Understanding Pompeii and Herculaneum
- City of Athens
- Art, Architecture and Identity in the Hellenistic World
- Augustus
- Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
- Contemporary Approaches to Latin Literature
- Encounters with Latin Poetry (in Latin)
- Food in the Ancient World
- History and Fiction
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Latin Letters (in Latin)
- Of Masks & Voices: Gender and Performance in Ancient Greece
- Plato (in Greek)
- Roman Protests and Riots
- Tacitus and the Making of Empire
- Thinking Myth: classical myth and its reception
- Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire