BA Ancient History
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (History, Ancient History or Classical Civilisation) IB: 38 points (A total of 18 points in three higher level subjects including grade 6 in History, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BA in Ancient History, a history degree focused on the civilisations, societies, and political structures of the ancient world. Core topics include Research Methods. The curriculum culminates in a compulsory undergraduate dissertation in the final year. The first year introduces foundational approaches through compulsory modules Making History and Writing Ancient History, alongside optional choices such as The Mediterranean World c.800-c.500 BC. The second year continues skill development via the Second-Year Research Seminar alongside various historical study options. The final year centres on the History Undergraduate Dissertation, supported by specialist optional modules such as Cultures of War in Ancient Greece and Slavery in the Classical World.
Modules
- Making History
- Writing Ancient History
- Approaching History
- The History of Political Thought in the West
- The Mediterranean World c.800-c.500 BC
- The Roman Republic, c.350 BC - 44 BC
- Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East
- Second-Year Research Seminar
- Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality?
- Asia and Europe: Imagining the world in ancient Greece
- Rome AD 300-1000. Portraits of a City, Reflections of a Changing World
- Making Medieval Europe 1150 - 1350
- Religious Reformation and Popular Piety, 1450-1650
- War, Rebellion, and Social Discontent in Modern China
- Superpower: A Global History of the United States, 1898-1989
- The Cultural Cold War
- The Disunited States: Contested Visions of America, 1775-1860
- History of the Modern Middle East
- History Undergraduate Dissertation
- Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970
- Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century
- Cultures of War in Ancient Greece
- Slavery in the Classical World
- Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period
- Ancient Anatolia Through Material Culture
- Aristocracy in Ancient Greece
- Thinking Postcolonially: Race and Empire in Twentieth Century Britain
- Penal Era or Golden Age?: Ireland 1689-1801
- The Ottoman Middle East in the Long Nineteenth Century