Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Research training in Classics OR Research Training in Classical Reception (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 90 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include the following topics:
- Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- Hellenistic Poetry (15 credits)
- Latin literary letters (15 credits)
- The Ancient Pantomime Dancer (15 credits)
- Roman Comedy (15 credits)
- Medieval Latin Literature (30 credits)
- Alexander’s Afterlife (15 credits)
- Persepolis: a cultural biography of the 'wonder of the East' (15 credits)
- Greek Religion
- Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (15 credits)
- Pompeii and Herculaneum: History, Society & Afterlife (15 credits)
- Greek Epigraphy (15 credits)
- Roman Britain
- Christian persecution: Violence and memory under Rome (15 credits)
- Engaging Greece: experiencing the past and responding to the present
- Black Classicisms
- Greek Sculpture and its Legacy (30 credits)
- The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (30 credits)
- Ancient Painting (15 credits)
- Ancient Mosaics: Making and Meaning (30 credits)
- Living in Byzantium (15 credits)
- Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (15 credits)
- The City of Rome (British School at Rome Postgraduate Course) (30 credits)
You can also choose from the many MA modules offered by:
- University College London Department of Greek & Latin
- University College London Department of History
- University College London Institute of Archaeology
- Royal Holloway University London Department of Classics
- Royal Holloway University London Department of History
- Institute of Classical Studies
You may also choose to take 15 credits from the King’s Language Centre. All subject to approval.
Teaching methods - what to expect
As a full-time student, we will typically provide you with eight to nine hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 35 hours of independent study.
For your dissertation, we will provide five hours of supervision, and we will expect you to undertake around 575 hours of independent study.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework essays
- Individual or group presentations
- Written examinations
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework essays, individual or group presentations, and written examinations
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026