Greek with English

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