Classics and the Ancient World BA

This BA in Classics and the Ancient World will empower you to take the burning questions of today and apply them to some of the most celebrated and debated cultures of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa. You’ll get to explore themes such as people versus elites, minority rights, sexual diversity and gender politics, empire and multiculturalism, ethnicity and race, religious identity and experience, consensus and conflict, art, philosophy, the meaning of justice, and much more. Thanks to a curriculum built entirely with multidisciplinary optional modules, you’ll be free to follow your own interests as you study classics and the ancient world, whether that’s literature, philosophy, history, global and social issues, politics, art, culture, or beyond. You don’t have to learn Ancient Greek and Latin during this classics degree, but an optional accelerated language route is available. If you have previous Ancient Greek and Latin experience, you can also continue to develop this during your studies.

Key benefits

• Experience hands-on access to collections at the British Museum and other London cultural institutions, thanks to collaborations that are incorporated into the curriculum.
• Get the opportunity to visit one of the ancient sites you study on an expenses-paid field trip that will give you a hands-on sense of material culture and exposure to another culture.
• Enjoy extracurricular opportunities like joining the famous Greek Play that’s been performed live every year since 1953 or experiencing how classical topics are taught in local primary schools.
• King’s Classics research has been ranked first in the UK (REF 2021). 100 per cent of the research environment and research impact at the department was recognised as either ‘world-leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). This research feeds into our teaching on the course.
• Join one of the largest classics departments in the UK and benefit from a wide-ranging specialism that covers the Bronze Age to Modern Greece.
• You can either study ancient sources in their translation or learn Ancient Greek and/or Latin with an accelerated three-year language route.

“I have three favourite things about studying Classics at Kings. 1. There are no compulsory modules so you have complete freedom to specialise in what truly interests you. 2. Learning in London is incredible, especially the proximity to amazing museums to see what you are studying in real life. 3. The range of modules, geographically and chronologically, - I really wouldn't want to learn anywhere else!”

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