Classical Studies with English

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BA

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Full Time

| UCAS code: Q8Q3
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.

YEAR 1

Compulsory modules:

  • Latin or 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


YEAR 2
Second year students choose from a range of optional modules, which may 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

For full module descriptions see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/modules/index.aspx

YEAR 3

All final year students may write an optional dissertation on a classical subject and choose from a range of optional modules, which may 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

For full module descriptions see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/modules/index.aspx
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