Year 1
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required Modules
You are required to take:
· Research Training & Dissertation in Classics (60 credits)
Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 120 credits, of which at least 40 credits must test your knowledge of Greek or Latin, from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
· Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (40 credits)
· Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (40 credits)
· Medieval Latin Literature* (40 credits)
· Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography (20 credits)
· Homer (40 credits)
· The Reception of Roman Comedy (20 credits)
· Homeric Presences in Greek Poetry & Shorter Prose Since 1890 (20 credits)
· Modern Greek Poetry & the Epic Tradition (20 credits)
· Tacitus & Nero (40 credits)
· Early Modern Latin Poetry I (20 credits)
· Latin Epigraphy (40 credits)
· Roman Britain (40 credits)
· CP Cavafy: the Making of a Modernist (20 credits)
· One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600–800 (20 credits)
· Persepolis (20 credits)
· Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (20 credits)
· The City of Rome (British School at Rome Annual Postgraduate Course) (40 credits)
· The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture & its Legacy (40 credits)
· The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (40 credits)
· Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (20 credits)
· Living in Byzantium I: Material Culture & Built Environment in Late Antiquity (20 credits)
· Living in Byzantium II: Material Culture & Built Environment in the Middle Ages (20 credits)
· Up to 20 credits from modules offered by King’s Modern Language Centre · Master’s modules offered by UCL Department of Greek & Latin, UCL Department of History, UCL Institute of Archaeology, RHUL Department of Classics and RHUL Department of History, subject to approvals
If you are a part-time student, you will take the required module in your second year, along with 40 credits of optional modules. In your first year, you will take 80 credits of optional modules, of which 40 credits must test your knowledge of Greek or Latin.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.