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A level Classical Civilisation gives you an understanding of some of the oldest and most engaging literature and art ever produced. You will also gain a deep insight into the Greek and Roman world, from which sprang much of European thought and art, and which underlies our modern cultural outlook. The literature studied in the course explores central human issues — fate and destiny, gender, war and peace, the human and the divine — to mention just a few.
In addition, the art and architecture components involve study of some of the finest structures from the classical world, such as the Parthenon or the Coliseum. In a highly enjoyable way, reading classical literature in English translation, you will progress from the first oral tales of Troy to the flourishing of theatre, history and philosophy at Athens and Rome. There are also visual arts options, covering a period of some thousand years, from prehistory to the end of the ancient world.
Becoming familiar with a unique range and quality of texts and arts, you will develop your skills of understanding a complex source and interpreting it for a wide audience. The subject leads you to a wide range of sources and approaches. These will always include much reading, whichever components you choose, and refining your thought in class discussion, where a personal approach is encouraged. Study sources include many original texts in translation but also engaging with art, watching short documentaries and films, or attending lectures and plays.
You will develop an extensive range of thinking skills while you interpret detailed and intriguing sources that demand a higher level of understanding and allow room for conflicting interpretations. The key exam skills are essay writing and dealing with questions which require you to interpret a piece of text. The most important quality to bring to the course is an interest in culture and a willingness to develop your ability to appreciate and analyse. An independent critical ability and imagination is a great resource; a willingness to open a window onto an unexpected vista and confront popular misconceptions about culture is a driving force for many budding Classicists nowadays.
You will need curiosity, determination, good time management, and independent working skills to achieve a good grade. Successful A level Classical Civilisation students can go on to study a range of Classics degree courses, often under tutelage of top academics, especially since Classical studies are offered at many Russell Group universities. This gives you a grasp of formal and stylistic developments within each of these media through the centuries, helping you understand their meanings in their original contexts.
You spend the first semester doing Greek art. You progress from the earliest Greek art, to when the Romans conquered them. Then in the spring semester, you do Roman art from beginning to the end and talk about all the different periods. It was interesting for me, as you got to do a presentation on a specific piece of art. It was really fun. This year-long module is devoted to the history of the ancient world.
You will investigate some of its key themes and approaches through a series of historical case studies, covering major periods of Greek and Roman history.
This module will introduce you to the interpretation of ancient literary texts in translation as sources for ancient culture, by focusing on a representative range of texts and themes. The autumn semester will focus on Greek texts, and the spring semester will focus on Latin texts.
This module introduces the interpretation of ancient Greek and Roman myth, focussing on a representative range of texts and themes. The module will be team-taught, exposing you to a wide range of material and approaches to the use of myth in the ancient world.
We will also introduce the variety of methodologies that scholars have used over the years, to help interpret and understand these myths and their usages. Archaeologists are interested in all aspects of the human past. This includes everything from ancient landscapes and changing environments, buried settlements and standing monuments and structures, to material objects and evidence for diet, trade, ritual and social life.
This module introduces the discipline of archaeology. It also explores how material remains are discovered, analysed and used to provide evidence for human societies, from prehistory to the present day. The autumn semester introduces the historical development of archaeology.
This is followed by a presentation of current theory and practice in the areas of:. In the spring semester, you will be taken into the field to gain practical experience of core archaeological methods in field survey and buildings archaeology. We were given a sheet of data and finds on the site and asked to map it out and give our interpretations of what it was and calibrate the dates.
Problem-solving — it was really fun. This module builds on Understanding the Past I. It is an introduction to the core aims and methodologies of Archaeology as a discipline.
It provides a basic introduction to how material remains of the past are discovered, analysed and used to provide evidence for human societies, from prehistory to the present day. Through lectures, classroom activities and practical fieldwork, you will be introduced to the study of landscape and the built environment, looking at how the archaeological record is both created and investigated.
You will be taken into the field to gain practical experience of core archaeological methods in field survey and buildings archaeology. One of the locations you will visit is Wollaton Hall , the Elizabethan house and landscape park that's nearby to University Park campus. This module gives an overview of the archaeology of the British Isles, from the Roman invasion until the industrial revolution. This was a period of dramatic change in Britain. Using key sites and discoveries, you will be introduced to the challenges of understanding the archaeology of periods partially documented in textual sources.
Teaching is delivered in a mix of lectures, seminars and a museum session. On average, this will be two hours per week across the spring semester. You will also have an appreciation of archaeological approaches in prehistoric periods, and the complexities of integrating varied sources of archaeological evidence including landscapes, monuments, excavated evidence and material culture.
This module is for complete beginners. You may find it reassuring that, unlike modern language study, there is no speaking and listening element. The main focus will be on reading text. This module offers an introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of your chosen language. You will be supported to analyse and understand basic sentences and to translate short passages. Note: This is mandatory for Classics BA students. Did you know you can learn a language alongside your undergraduate degree?
You could even gain credits that count towards your studies. Find out more about learning a language alongside your degree. This module engages with the narrative histories of film and television, from their origins to the present day, a period involving many significant transitional moments in production histories. You will explore the coming of sound, the rise and demise of the Hollywood studio system, and the emergence of the TV network system.
By raising questions such as: what are the industries producing at these moments, and how are cultural products marketed and distributed?
It provides examples of different critical approaches to film and television history and interrogates the key debates around the periodisation of that history. This module is worth 20 credits. We trace the making and remaking of immigrant communities, cultures, and identities from the nineteenth century to the present day. You will analyse models of race, ethnicity, culture, and nation by focusing on the perception and reception of immigrant groups and their adjustment to US society.
We will ask questions such as: How have institutions and ideologies shaped the changing place of immigrants within the United States over time? How have immigrants forged new identities within and beyond the framework of the nation state? And how has immigration transformed US society? Philosophy develops, confronts and destroys previous thinking. It reinforces the status quo and acts as a foundation for revolution. It's a product of its time and helps to shape the future. Together we'll become familiar with some of the main philosophical ideas and thinkers that have shaped philosophy.
And you'll come to understand how and why these ideas arose and developed in response to wider contexts and movements. You won't be taught whether any of these thinkers and thoughts were right. But by the end of the module you'll be able to recognise and judge for yourself the strengths and weaknesses of arguments on both sides of each philosophical issue.
If you are planning on taking a dissertation module in year three, you must also take either the Studying Classical Scholarship or Communicating the Past module.
This module focuses on the history and development of the scholarship on ancient Greece and Rome and on specific theories, approaches and methods used by modern scholarship.
The aim is to sharpen your engagement with and understanding of scholarship, and to give a deeper appreciation of the ways the ancient world has been appropriated. Studying the history of scholarship in its socio-political context will show you how the questions we ask depend on the situations we live in; it will also allow you to judge the merits and limitations of scholarly approaches and will develop your skills of research and analysis, as preparation for your third-year dissertation.
As with the Extended Source Study, you will choose a work-sheet relating to an area of the ancient world which particularly interests you; the module is assessed by an oral presentation and a 4,, word essay. This module is your opportunity to expand your knowledge of an aspect of Classics or Archaeology which interests you, and to experiment with methods of communicating that knowledge which take you beyond the usual assessment practices of essays and exams.
You might undertake research that leads to for example the creation of a museum exhibition, the reconstruction of an ancient artefact, or the design of a new public engagement strategy for a historic site. You might acquire experience of a communication method which could be of use to you in a future career, e.
You might choose to experiment with a different medium of communication such as video, website or phone app. The topic and form of the project chosen must both be approved by the module convener.
This module is ideal for any student who is interested in pursuing a career in heritage, museums or education, while developing skills in research, project design and communication are essential for a wide range of career choices as well as being excellent preparation for your third-year dissertation.
The Peloponnesian war lasted for more than 25 years. It came to involve much of the Greek world, as diverse states and peoples felt compelled to become allies of either Sparta or Athens. The scale of this struggle, and its repercussions, make it a highly significant period of Greek history. In particular, we will examine the disproportionate role that one man, the Athenian historian Thucydides, plays in shaping our knowledge and understanding of this conflict.
How far can we use other authors and types of evidence to get beyond this hugely significant, but imperfect source? This module explores the traditions and rituals that operated in Roman society, from the earliest stages of archaic Rome, to the advent of Christianity.
It will help you to make sense of customs and practices that could baffle even the Romans themselves, alongside showing how the religious system controlled Roman social, political and military activities. You will examine evidence drawn from the late Republic and early Principate, and use literature and images from the Augustan period as a central hinge for studying the dynamics of religion in Rome.
You will explore the ancient evidence for the myth of Oedipus and selected representations of the myth in the post-Classical world. In terms of evidence, you will have the opportunity to explore ancient drama and other poetry as well as visual culture and mythographic writings.
In terms of post-Classical representations, there will be a particular focus on performance and on modern popular culture, including but not necessarily limited to. This is a discipline-bridging cross-campus module, involving colleagues from across the School of Humanities. The Silk Road will be presented as a range of archaeological, historical and scientific themes. Broad cultural themes will be balanced with the presentation of specific case studies, such as:.
Scientific techniques for the analysis of materials, and their role in the interpretation of trade and exchange along the Silk Roads, will also be considered. This module examines Britain in the later-Roman Empire.
It is a fascinating period of prosperity, integration, and sophistication. Yet it is also marked by rebellion, civil war, and the sundering of the links that had bound Britain to the continent so deeply for so long. We will cover from the crisis that marked the middle years of the 3rd century, to the disappearance of Roman power in the early 5th, and the rapid economic collapse and social transformation that followed. You will take an interdisciplinary approach, combining archaeological and historical evidence, and will be expected to familiarise yourself with a wide range of evidence.
When Rome was still a small town, and before Athens became a city of international significance, the Etruscan civilisation flourished in Italy and rapidly gained control of the Mediterranean. But who were the Etruscans? The Greeks and the Romans regarded them as wealthy pirates, renowned for their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle and for the freedom of their women.
Archaeology, however, tells us much more about their daily life and funerary customs, their religious beliefs, their economy, their language, and their technical abilities and artistic tastes. In this module, you will examine visual and material culture, as well as epigraphic and literary sources, in order to lift the shroud of mystery that often surrounds the Etruscans. You will also place them in the context of the wider Mediterranean world in the 1st millennium BC, examining their exchanges with the Near Eastern kingdoms, their cultural interactions with Greece and the Greek colonial world, and their role in the early history of Rome.
By exploring Etruscan cities and cemeteries from the 9th to the 3rd centuries BC, with their complex infrastructures and technologies, lavish paintings, sculptures and metalwork, you will discover a most advanced civilisation that shared much with the classical cultures and yet was very different from them. Based on a combination of lectures and workshops, this module introduces students to the origins of the Aegean complex societies from the late 4th millennium BC and to the rise, apogee and fall of the Minoan palatial, state-level societies of the 3rd and early 2nd millennia BC.
This module will examine the writing of narrative histories in ancient Rome and their importance in the study of Roman history, particularly in the late Republic and Imperial periods.
The works of ancient historical writers differ significantly from modern historians in their approach to evidence, narrative, and impartiality, and we need to be aware of these differences when using these texts as sources. This module will therefore consider the importance of the works of historians like Livy, Tacitus, and Ammianus not only as sources for the study of history, but as literary works in their own right, examining issues of historical accuracy and reliability alongside generic conventions, narrative structures, and issues of characterisation.
In this module you will study classical Greek from the level reached in Beginners Greek 2. This will complete instruction in the basic aspects of the Greek language and enables students to undertake the detailed linguistic and literary study of an unadapted Greek text, such a Lysias 1.
This module continues the study of Latin from the level reached in Beginners' Latin 2. It provides the opportunity to revise basic aspects of the Latin language and enables students to proceed to the reading of Latin texts.
The assessment-pattern emphasises comprehension and analysis of grammatical structures over memorisation and translation. This module is for complete beginners to Greek. These two modules are for complete beginners. They just let you start your chosen language at a later point in your degree. Note: this is mandatory for Classics BA students. This module continues the study of classical Greek from the level reached in Intermediate Greek 1.
It continues with the study of Greek grammar and focuses on the reading of one or more classical Greek texts. This module is for students in their fourth semester of Latin. You will read a text such as Cicero Pro Archia or Virgil Aeneid 2 in some depth, and practise close reading of Latin literature, as well as continuing to revise and consolidate Latin grammar.
The year-long Special Subject module allows you to intensively study one of the most influential figures in Roman history — Augustus.
We examine how, after his victory in the civil wars, Augustus established his rule over the Roman world on a secure and generally acceptable basis. You will pay attention to the ancient sources studied in translation. There are opportunities to study culture and history, but as with Latin, the focus of this subject is primarily linguistic. Although studying Ancient Greek may help students learn Modern Greek in the future, there are substantial differences between the two forms of the language.
There is no requirement to learn ancient languages. Again, no language is required. Although there is some overlap between the topics covered in Classical Civilisation and Ancient History, the latter focuses more on military, political and social history, as opposed to literature and art. All four classical subjects are suited to study at both primary and secondary level.
We offer a range of school talks and workshops for all key stages.
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