Greek with English

The joint degree programme includes collaborations with the British Museum in London. Study the classical world primarily through reading original ancient Greek texts. Close study of English literature encourages and develops a clear critical thinking and succinct expression of ideas.

Classics:

• One of the very best classics departments in the country, renowned for its quality of teaching, student experience and cutting-edge research.
• Central location offers collaborations with the British Museum and the Museum of London, which are incorporated into undergraduate teaching.
• The department stages an annual Greek play in the original language, providing students with an opportunity to experience the Greek dramatic tradition.
• Degree programmes combine focus and flexibility, allowing students to pursue their interests.
• Graduates are equipped with analytical and presentational skills valued by employers, leading to careers in heritage-related professions, the media, education, civil service and the performing arts.

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English:

• One of the oldest English departments in the country, with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research.
• Personal attention given to each student, creating a vibrant intellectual atmosphere and a network of support.
• Offers a wide range of modules, and diverse approaches.
• Central location offers access to Shakespeare’s Globe, and countless other sites and buildings with literary associations.
• Graduates develop transferable analytical and communications skills making them highly desirable to employers across a range of sectors.

The Greek component in this programme is designed for students who wish to study aspects of the classical world primarily through reading ancient texts in the original Greek. A-level Greek (or the equivalent) is required at entry. The close study of English literature in the subsidiary component will encourage and develop a clear critical thinking and succinct expression of ideas that are concrete and valuable assets in todays job market, and a means of access to further vocational training.

King's Classics Department is acknowledged as one of the very best in the country and the variety and flexibility of its teaching reflects the full richness of the subject. The English Department prides itself not only on the range and diversity of the modules it offers, from medieval literature to modern poetry and women's writing, but also on the diversity of the approaches it employs, from contemporary literary theory to close textual examination and historical scholarship.

Greek Play
Every year (since 1953), students in the Department of Classics have produced and performed a Greek play - the only production in the UK to be performed annually in the original Greek. Read more about the Greek Play (and its history) at King's: 
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/about/greek/index.aspx


King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional course will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change. Please note that this programme is currently under review.

Core modules:

• Working with Greek Literary Texts: an Introduction
• Greek language

First year students choose from a range of optional modules, which may include options such as:

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction
• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600)
• Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction
• Language in Time
• Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature
• Introducing Literary Theories
• Medieval Literary Culture
• Reading Poetry
• Renaissance Literature
• Writing London

Department of Classics full module descriptions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx


Second year students choose from a range of optional modules, which would typically include options such as:

• Views of Antiquity
• Building Greece & Rome
• Greek History down to 322BC
• Roman History down to 31BC
• Greek/Roman Drama
• Greek/Latin Language
• Greek/Latin Texts
• Narrative Literature in Antiquity
• Roman/Hellenistic Art
• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean London
• Australian Literature & Film
• Creative Writing: the Novel
• Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England
• Early Modern Sexualities
• Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
• First World War Literature
• History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination
• Irish Literature & Culture
• Language of Dance
• Modernist Fiction
• Rise of the Novel
• Narrating the Nation
• Performance in Medieval Culture
• Romanticism, Revolution & Representation 1776-1832
• Shakespeare in London
• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings
• The Fin de Siecle
• Theatre Capital
• Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870

Department of Classics full module descriptions:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx

Final year students choose from a range of optional modules, including an optional dissertation, which would typically include options such as:

• Dissertation on a classical subject
• Greek Sculpture 750-300 BC
• Archaeology of the Western Roman Provinces
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda
• Alexander the Great
• Ancient Slavery
• Greek Religion
• Greek/Latin texts
• Rome in the Age of Cicero
• Theory of Literature
• Ancient Lyric & Poetry
• Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation
• Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters
• British Literature & Film
• Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I
• Creative Writing: Drama
• Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory
• Elizabethan Shakespeare
• Gender and Performance
• Imagined Worlds
• Jacobean Shakespeare
• James Joyce & Ulysses
• Jane Austen in Context
• Literature & Impressionism
• Medieval Body in Pain
• Medieval Romance
• Memory & Time in the 19th Century
• Performance Philosophy
• Post Colonial Australian Literature
• Post Colonial Perspectives