BA Ancient History and History,

Institution

Swansea University

Level

undergraduate

Subject

Ancient History and History, BA (Hons)

Duration

3 years

UCAS code

V110

About this course

BA in Classics, encompassing ancient history from the Mediterranean to the modern era. Core topics include research methods and fieldwork. The programme offers Latin and Greek language study from beginner level through to advanced, alongside modules spanning ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern periods. A history and heritage field trip is available as an optional module.

Modules

• History of the Mediterranean World (c.1000 BCE – c. 500 CE)
• From Facts to Fake News: Being a Historian in the Twenty-First Century
• Pompeii and beyond
• Global Challenges and the Historian
• Introduction to Ancient Egyptian History, Culture and Society
• Making Modern Europe, 1789 to the Present
• Medieval Matters: Exploring the Middle Ages
• Beginning Latin 1
• Intermediate Latin 1
• Further Latin 1
• The Past in its Place: History and Heritage Field Trip
• The Early Modern World, 1500-1800
• Beginning Latin 2
• Intermediate Latin 2
• Further Latin 2
• The Practice of History
• Intermediate Greek 1
• Beginning Greek 1
• Archaic Greece
• The Heirs of Rome: The Making of Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam in the Early Middle Ages, 400-800
• Gender in the Roman World
• Intermediate Latin 1
• Beginning Latin 1
• Intermediate Greek 2
• Beginning Greek 2
• The Imperial Image: Roman Emperors and Imperial Women in History, Literature and Art.
• Guided Research Project
• Alexander and the Hellenistic world
• Intermediate Latin 2
• Beginning Latin 2
• Schools work placement: Teaching ancient history and ancient languages
• The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
• Reading Classical Civilisation
• Roman Love Poetry
• Plato's Republic
• America in a Nutshell: A History of Pennsylvania from William Penn to Donald Trump, 1631-2016
• The Making of Transatlantic America
• Rhyfel Cartref America
• Europe 1500-1650: Renaissance, Reformation and Religious War
• Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain
• The Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1225
• Re-Thinking the South: Southern Culture and History, 1865-1955
• The Past in the Present: Exploring Heritage Practice and Debates
• Medicine and the Modern World, 1800 to the Present
• Britain in the Early Middle Ages: Slavery, Dragons, Queens and Vikings
• History Work Placement
• The Story of America on Film and Television, 1607-1867
• Stori America Ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1607-1867
• The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire
• The Global First World War
• Extended Research Project in Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology
• History Dissertation
• Intermediate Greek 1
• Further Greek 1
• Culture and Control in Roman Britain
• Archaic Greece
• Intermediate Latin 1
• Further Latin 1
• Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval
• Intermediate Greek 2
• Further Greek 2
• Pagans, Christians, and the "Falls" of Rome
• Alexander and the Hellenistic world
• Intermediate Latin 2
• Further Latin 2
• Schools work placement: Teaching ancient history and ancient languages
• The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
• Roman Love Poetry
• Plato's Republic
• The Lights that Failed: the League of Nations and International Peace 1919 -1939
• The Hungry World: Food, Famine and the End of Empire, 1880-1945
• The Reign of King John, 1199-1216: Misrule and Magna Carta
• The First Crusade: Devotion, Piety and Power in the Latin Christian World
• The Russian Civil War
• The Placing of History: Digitally Mapping the Historic Past
• The Story of the USA on Film and Television, 1865-2008
• Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
• From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and Society in Western Political Thought
• The American Civil War in History and Memory
• Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy lygaid y Cymry
• A History of Sex and Gender
• The Cold War
• The Rise and Fall of Wales? Politics, Culture and Society, 1847-1939