MA IN ANCIENT WORLD STUDIES
MA course-units 2006-2007
This page lists those course-units provisionally available in 2006/7. You may read more about some of these units by simply clicking on the title. The Research Training and Language course-units will definitely run; the running of each of the others is subject to staff-availability and to a minimum student take-up: we will try our best, but we cannot guarantee to run all 1st or 2nd choices.
Each course-unit is worth 30 credits (unless otherwise noted).
Research Training
- CLAH 60510 The Study of the Ancient World: techniques & approaches combined with
- SAGE - Skills Awareness for Graduate Education compulsory for all new postgraduate students.
Language course-units
- CLAH 70151 plus CLAH 70162 Greek (fast track - the default for graduates; each half is worth 15 credits)
- CLAH 70300 Elementary Greek
- CLAH 70120 Advanced Greek I
- CLAH 70220 Advanced Greek II
- CLAH 70320 Advanced Greek III
- CLAH 70171 plus CLAH 70182 Latin (fast track - the default for graduates; each half is worth 15 credits)
- CLAH 70000 Elementary Latin
- CLAH 70110 Advanced Latin I
- CLAH 70210 Advanced Latin II
- CLAH 70310 Advanced Latin III
- CLAH 60130 Academic German for Classicists
- CLAH 70190 Academic Italian for Classicists
'Major' course-units in literature, culture and history
Latin literature
Greek literature
- CLAH 60160 Song, Text and Performance (compulsory in the Song, Text & Performance pathway)
- CLAH 60300 Hellenistic Literature (compulsory in the Song, Text & Performance pathway)
- CLAH 60660 Greek Myth: Society & psychology
History/Literature
- CLAH 60180 Greek Papyrology and Palaeography (advanced Greek required)
Ancient History
- CLAH 60150 Ancient Science
Roman history
- CLAH 60081 History of the City of Rome from Romulus to Augustus (those doing the City of Rome pathway must offer either 60081 or 60111 and 60222)
- CLAH 60111 Living in the Roman Empire (those doing the City of Rome pathway must offer either 60081 or 60111 and 60222)
- CLAH 60090 Intellectual Life in the Flavian and Antonine Periods
- CLAH 60222 City of Rome (taught at the British School at Rome: external link; pdf file:)
- CLAH 60640 The Army of the Later Roman Empire
Greek history
- CLAH 60200 Demes and Democracy: the internal structures of the Athenian state
- CLAH 60250 Writing and Power