Teaching - Classical Art & Archaeology MA

Teaching & modules

Modules

Required modules

You are required to take:

Research Training in Classical Archaeology (30 credits)
Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional modules

In addition, students are required to choose modules totalling 30 credits from a range of Archaeology modules that may typically include:

The Material Legacy of Byzantium (15 credits)
Themes in Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (15 credits)
Special Subject in Classical Art & Archaeology (15 credits)
Greek Religion: Theoretical Approaches (15 credits)
Crossroads of Eurasia: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (15 credits)
Reorienting Antiquity (15 credits)
Emperors and Provinces (15 credits)
The Roman City (15 credits)
Christianity and Rome (15 credits)
Late Antiquity (15 credits)
Archaeology of the Roman empire (15 credits)

You are also required to choose modules totalling up to60 credits from a range of modules that may typically include the below:

Beholding Antiquity (15 credits)
Special subject in Classics (15 credits)
Special Subject in Classics (30 credits)
Making and Meaning in Classical Art & Archaeology (15 credits)
Modern Greek Literature and Culture (15 credits)
Special Subject in Ancient Culture (15 credits)
Postclassical Greek literature and culture (15 credits)
Topics in Ancient Performance Culture (15 credits)
Topics in Latin Literature and its Reception II (15 credits)
Topics in Latin Literature and its Reception III (15 credits)
Topics in Latin Literature and its Reception (15 credits)
Antiquity in Modernity (15 credits)
The City of Rome (BSR Annual Postgraduate Course) (15 credits)
Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
Hittite Language 1 (30 credits)

Additionally, students may take no more than 30-credits from another MA programme within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities or (by individual arrangement) from Member Institutions of the University of London or King’s Language Centre.

If studying as a part-time student, you will take:

Year 1: At least 60 credits earned through 1 x 30-credit core module (Research training in Classical Archaeology) and 30-45 credits of optional modules.
Year 2: At least 90 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation and 30-45 credits of optional modules.

Lectures

Seminars

Independent study

As a full-time student, we will typically provide you with six to eight hours of teaching through lectures and seminars each week, and we will expect you to undertake 35 hours of independent study.

If you are a part-time student, we will typically provide you with three to four hours of teaching through lectures and seminars each week and, depending on the number of modules you take each term, we will expect you to undertake 15-20 hours of independent study.

For your dissertation, we will provide five hours of supervision from a member of the Department, depending on your chosen topic, who will oversee your work on it. We will expect you to undertake 575 hours of independent study.

Typically one credit equates to 10 hours of work.