BA Classical Studies,
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBC IB: 32 points
About this course
BA in Classics, the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilisations. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme offers optional study of ancient Greek and Latin across beginning, intermediate, and further levels. Additional modules are available in Ancient History, Egyptology, and Philosophy.
Modules
- Of Gods and Mortals - Introduction to Greek Mythology
- History of the Mediterranean World (c.1000 BCE – c. 500 CE)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses: Transformations of Mythology
- Introduction to Ancient Egyptian History, Culture and Society
- Fundamental Issues in Philosophy
- Beginning Greek 1
- Intermediate Greek 1
- Further Greek 1
- Beginning Latin 1
- Intermediate Latin 1
- Further Latin 1
- Introduction to Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric
- Voices of the Nile: 3000 years of storytelling in ancient Egyptian literature
- Pompeii and beyond
- Beginning Greek 2
- Intermediate Greek 2
- Further Greek 2
- Beginning Latin 2
- Intermediate Latin 2
- Further Latin 2
- Reading Classical Civilisation
- The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
- Roman Love Poetry
- Plato's Republic
- 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 Past in the Present: Exploring Heritage Practice and Debates
- Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology
- Language of the Pharaohs: An Introduction to Hieroglyphic Literacy
- Debating Texts: Theory in Literature
- Revolution of the Word: Modernism
- Exploring the Bloody Chamber: Medieval to Postmodern
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Philosophy of Mind
- Egyptian Art and Architecture
- Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain
- Contentious Shakespeare
- Medieval Encounters
- A Matter of Life and Death: Exploring Existential Philosophy
- Contemporary Moral Controversies
- Extended Research Project in Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology
- The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun and Sex
- Intermediate Greek 1
- Further Greek 1
- Culture and Control in Roman Britain
- Archaic Greece
- Intermediate Latin 1
- Further Latin 1
- Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval
- Roman Love Poetry
- Plato's Republic
- 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
- After Empire: Pharaonic Egypt in the first millennium BCE
- Welsh Gothic / Gothic Wales
- Written in Blood: Reading the Vampire
- Graphic Novel
- African American Literature 1910-1940: The Harlem Renaissance
- Chaucer
- Philosophy, Mental Health and Illness
- Philosophy of Mind
- The Archaeology of Ancient Nubia - Egypt's Neighbour in Africa
- Madness, Malady and Melancholia: Literature and Medicine from Genesis to Genomes
- The Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize Module
- Beyond Shakespeare
- Philosophy and Literature
- The Philosophy and Politics of Identity
- Reality and Cognition: Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology