Strand Campus
Strand Campus sits along the Thames at London's cultural heart. Alongside world-class teaching spaces, students enjoy access to the pedestrianised Strand Quad, with Somerset House and iconic landmarks just steps away.
Overview
This Classical Studies with English BA is an interdepartmental course that will allow you to develop an in-depth knowledge of the Classics while also studying English literature. With no required modules, you’ll be empowered to select a syllabus that best suits your interests.
You can expect to build skills and experience in working with Latin and Ancient Greek literature in translation (or optionally in their original form), ancient philosophy, history, art, and archaeology. Your English studies will enable you to see echoes of the ancient world as they are picked up, reinvented, and transformed over the centuries to the modern day.
You’ll join the best university in the UK for research excellence in Classics (REF 2021) and learn from one of the oldest English departments in the country, meaning that you’ll be taught by academics at the forefront of their respective fields. And we offer a range of exciting opportunities that include handling sessions in London museums, like the British Museum and Shakespeare’s Globe, unique module coverage from the Bronze Age to modern Greece, and the possibility of travel in classical lands.
Key benefits
- Classics at King’s ranked first in the UK for research excellence (REF 2021). This research excellence feeds into our teaching on the course.
- You’ll be part of one of the largest Classics departments in the UK, offering unique coverage chronologically from the Bronze Age to Modern Greece, and geographically from Britain to Persia.
- Choose your own curriculum comprised entirely of optional modules. Pursue your interests in a department renowned for the quality of its teaching and student experience.
- Enjoy visits to the British Museum and other london museums as integrated parts of your learning.
- Enhance your education through opportunities like access to organisations like Shakespeare’s Globe and extracurricular opportunities like joining the famous Greek Play, performed every year since 1953, or experiencing how classical topics are taught in local primary schools.
- We support students’ learning about the classical world in the classical world. Every year we take students on one of our third-year modules on an expenses-paid field trip to ancient sites in the Mediterranean. We also make substantial funding available for our students’ independent travel in classical lands.
- Build your transferable analytical and communication skills that employers from a range of sectors find highly desirable. Our students go on to diverse careers including law, banking, the civil service, heritage-related professions, the media, education, information technology, and the performing arts.
My favourite part of the course is how we get to explore our individual interests within the wide range of modules we study.
Sarah AbdelmaksoudClassical Studies with English BA
Special features
Optional study abroad
Key Information
UCAS code:
Q8Q3
Course type:
Major/minor honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full-time
Required A-Levels:
AAB
Duration:
Three years
Application status:
Start date:
September 2027
Application deadline:
Administrative bodies
Regulating body
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