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Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. Social Anthropology and Classical Literature and Civilisation Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

Students must choose ONE 40-credit independent study module from the department in which they are taking 60 or 80 credits. Students taking only 40-credits in a discipline cannot take a Dissertation in that discipline.

In consultation with the programme lead, students taking 60 or 80 credits in History may replace 20 credits in Semester 1 with ONE 20 credit Future or Professional Skills module OR students taking 60 or 80 credits in CAHA may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit skills module in either semester.

Students cannot take any LH modules they have taken at LI.

All optional lists are indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in year). Students who undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor

Students must choose ONE of the following independent study modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
CAHA Dissertation 09 26194 40 Full Term
LH Dissertation 09 23603 40 Full Term

Students taking 80 credits in DASA and 40 credits in CAHA

DASA: Students choose 40 credits of optional modules (20 in each semester) plus the 40-credit DASA Dissertation CAHA: Students choose 40 credits of optional modules (20 in each semester), which may include LH Professional Skills in Semester 1.

OR

DASA: Students choose 40 credits of optional modules (20 in each semester) plus the DASA Dissertation CAHA: Students choose TWO co-requisite Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).

Students taking 60 credits in DASA and 60 credits in CAHA

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 plus the 40-credit DASA Dissertation CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 plus TWO co-requisite 20-credit Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).

OR

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 plus the 40-credit DASA Dissertation CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 plus TWO co-requisite 20-credit Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester).

OR

DASA: Students choose TWO 20-credit optional modules in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 plus the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation

OR

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit optional modules in Semester 2 CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 plus the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation

Students taking 40 credits in DASA and 80 credits in CAHA

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit optional module in Semester 2 plus the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation

OR

DASA: Students choose 40 credits of optional modules (20 in each semester)

CAHA: Students choose TWO co-requisite Special Subject modules to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester) plus the 40-credit CAHA Dissertation.

DASA Optional Modules.

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22696 20 Semester 2
LH African Popular Culture 09 20437 20 Semester 1
LH Africans in the Global Diaspora 09 30663 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Anthropology of Islam 09 31885 20 Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 31404 20 Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH Development in Africa 09 37919 20 Semester 2
LH Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 29673 20 Semester 2
LH From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28015 20 Semester 1
LH Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37921 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH New African Writing 09 23567 20 Semester 1
LH Political Anthropology 09 35014 20 Semester 2
LH Religion and Ritual 09 28072 20 Semester 2
LH The African Canon 09 23564 20 Semester 1
LH The Anthropology of Sport and Recreation 09 40531 20 Semester 1
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

CAHA Optional Modules. CAHA Optional Modules. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Age of Empires 09 27256 20 Semester 1
LH Death, Burial and Society 09 24039 20 Semester 2
LH Face to face with Egypt’s Gods 09 32026 20 Semester 1
LH Greek Mythology 09 27276 20 Semester 2
LH Hellenistic Literature 09 29632 20 Semester 1
LH Humans and Environments 09 23536 20 Semester 2
LH Love in Greek Literature 09 28093 20 Semester 1
LH War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Roman World 09 30686 20 Semester 1
Sparta 09 22891 20 Semester 2

Language modules. Language modules. Students may choose up to 40 credits of appropriate level language:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Egyptian Language 1 09 40541 20 Semester 1
LH Egyptian Language 2 09 40542 20 Semester 2
LH Greek 1 09 38790 20 Semester 1
LH Greek 2 09 38791 20 Semester 2
LH Greek 3 09 38813 20 Semester 1
LH Greek Texts 09 38814 20 Semester 2
LH Latin 1 09 38849 20 Semester 1
LH Latin 2 09 38850 20 Semester 2
LH Latin 3 09 38858 20 Semester 1
LH Latin Texts 09 38859 20 Semester 2

CAHA Special Subjects A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject A: Carthage and Rome 09 37472 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World 09 37452 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Democracy and Empire: The World of the Athenian archē 09 37454 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Far-flung corners: being Roman in the late Roman world, c. 200-c.550 09 37460 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Greek Epigram 09 37458 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Greeks and Barbarians 09 37474 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: How to build an Empire: Communication and Conflict (-Resolution) 09 37464 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Performance Culture in the Ancient World 09 37889 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Rethinking the Romans 09 40492 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37462 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: The Roman Republic in Imperial Imagination 09 37467 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: The Spartan kosmos 545-371 BCE 09 37469 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Wonderful things: an introduction to ancient Egyptian art and architecture 09 37456 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37369 20 Semester 1

CAHA Special Subjects B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject B: Carthage and Rome 09 37473 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World 09 37453 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Democracy and Empire: The World of the Athenian archē 09 37455 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Far-flung corners: being Roman in the late Roman world, c. 200-c.550 09 37461 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Greek Epigram 09 37459 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Greeks and Barbarians 09 37475 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37371 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37463 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Wonderful things: an introduction to ancient Egyptian art and architecture 09 37457 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1