BA Classics and Philosophy
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: AS/A-level Latin or Greek grade B, or GCSE grade A or grade 7 if not taken at A level We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including 5 in Standard Level Greek or Latin
About this course
BA in Classics and Philosophy, combining the two disciplines in equal measure. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course involves studying both Latin and Greek language alongside ancient and modern philosophy. It draws on academic staff from departments across the university in an interdisciplinary structure.
Modules
- Introduction to Modern Philosophy
- Problems of Knowledge
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- Philosophical Methods
- Beginner’s Greek
- Intermediate Greek
- Greek Language and Reading
- Beginner's Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Latin Language and Reading
- Introduction to Logic
- Mind and Consciousness
- Introduction to Aesthetics and Morals
- Intensive Greek
- Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Intensive Latin
- Introduction to European Philosophy 1: Kant to Hegel
- Mind and World
- Introduction to European Philosophy 2: The Critique of Idealism
- Philosophy and the Arts
- Varieties of Scepticism
- The Varieties of Scepticism
- The Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Religon
- Philosophy and Literature
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Modern Political Thought
- Hellenistic Epic: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Imperial Greek Poetry: Epic & Epigram
- Homer (in Greek)
- The Tragedy of Euripides
- Greek Dramatic Texts II (Comedy)
- Herodotus
- Plato (in Greek)
- Imperial Greek Literature
- Greek Historiography (in Greek)
- Greek Erotic Poetry in Greek
- Horace
- Lucretius and Virgil
- Roman Satire
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Latin Historiography
- Catullus and Horace
- Latin Letters (in Latin)
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Modern European Philosophy 1: Husserl to Heidegger
- Modern European Philosophy 2: Critical Theory and Hermeneutics
- Radical Political Theory I: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche
- The Politics of Toleration
- Social Justice: From Theory to Practice
- Theories of Freedom and Democracy