BA English and Classical Studies
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: A Level B in an essay-based subject 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 an essay-based subject at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Classics. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course offers beginner-to-advanced study of both Ancient Greek and Latin, alongside literature modules spanning from Homer and Chaucer to Shakespeare and modern authors. Modules in Greek and Roman archaeology and history complement the literary and linguistic training.
Modules
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Beginner’s Greek
- Intermediate Greek
- Greek Language and Reading
- Beginner's Latin
- Intermediate Latin
- Latin Language and Reading
- Introduction to Greek Literature
- Roman Literature of the Republic
- Roman Literature of the Empire
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
- Individual and Community
- Greek History and the City State
- Key Themes in Roman History
- Studying Classical Antiquity
- Introduction to Greek Archaeology
- Introduction to Roman Archaeology
- Middle English Poetry
- Tolkien's Roots
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Modernisms
- Intensive Greek
- Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Intensive Latin
- 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
- Latin Love Elegy
- Roman Satire
- Latin Epic (in Latin)
- Latin Historiography
- Catullus and Horace
- Literature and the Digital
- Writing as a Critic
- Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
- On Murder
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reading Like a Victorian
- First World War Literature
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- Poetic Practice
- Violence, Sex and Magic in Medieval Literature
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Virginia Woolf
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation
- Further Aspects of Modern Greek Language and Culture
- Roman Oratory
- Ancient Literary Criticism
- Roman Drama (In Translation)
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Greek Lyric, Eros and Social Order
- Nature and the Supernatural in Latin Literature
- Greek Literature under the Roman Empire
- Studying Ancient Myth
- Culture and Identity from Nero to Hadrian
- The Roman Novel
- Gender in Classical Antiquity
- Greek Law and Lawcourts
- Augustus
- The Roman Republic: A Social and Economic History
- The Rise of the Roman Empire: An Economic and Social history
- Alexander the Great
- The City from Augustus to Charlemagne: The Rise and Fall of Civilisation
- Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy
- The Good Life in Ancient Philosophy II
- Understanding Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Perspectives on Roman Britain
- City of Rome
- City of Athens
- The Archaeology of the Roman Near East
- Extended Essay (Dissertation)