Programme And Module Handbook
 
Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. Classical Literature and Civilisation and Philosophy Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Classical Epic 09 27261 20 Semester 1

CAHA Optional modules. Students choose between 20 and 60 credits.

CAHA Optional modules. Students choose between 20 and 60 credits. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Field Archaeology 09 27258 20 Semester 2
LI Athenian Drama 09 27279 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Environmental Archaeology in the Lab 09 39675 20 Semester 2
LI Human Remains: From Forensics to Display 09 28688 20 Semester 1
LI Imperial Rome 09 27269 20 Semester 2
LI Material Culture and Heritage 09 38275 20 Semester 1
LI Matrons and Monsters: Women in Rome and Byzantium 09 36039 20 Semester 2
LI Mediterranean and European Archaeology 09 27314 20 Semester 2
LI Palace Societies 09 40082 20 Semester 1
LI Poets and Tyrants: Archaic Greece 09 39826 20 Semester 2
LI Republican Rome: From the Gracchi to Caesar 09 28747 20 Semester 1
LI Republican and Imperial Rome 09 36038 20 Semester 2
LI Rhetoric at Rome 09 38674 20 Semester 2
LI Thinking Athenian 09 27272 20 Semester 2
Roman Women: Matrons and Monsters 09 28096 20 Semester 1
Understanding Ancient Societies 09 27278 20 Semester 1

Language Modules Students may take up to 40 credits of appropriate level ancient language modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Greek 1 09 38788 20 Semester 1
LI Greek 2 09 38789 20 Semester 2
LI Greek 3 09 38822 20 Semester 1
LI Greek Texts 09 38823 20 Semester 2
LI Introduction to Ancient Egyptian A 09 27301 20 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Ancient Egyptian B 09 27302 20 Semester 2
LI Latin 1 09 38847 20 Semester 1
LI Latin 2 09 38848 20 Semester 2
LI Latin 3 09 38860 20 Semester 1
LI Latin Texts 09 38861 20 Semester 2

Students may choose ONE 20-credit module in place of an optional module in either department:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom 09 37804 20 Semester 2
LI Media in Practice 09 37869 20 Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. 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 undertaking 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
LI Professional Skills 09 36839 20 Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance 09 37012 20 Semester 1

The optional modules are divided into three categories that represent three core areas of philosophy: history of philosophy; ethics and social philosophy; epistemology metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and language. These groupings are the following: (Please note: the specific modules listed are indicative, as provision may evolve to reflect, for example, staffing changes)

Group A: Science and Nature, Logic: Its Limits and Scope, Philosophy of Mental Health

Group B: Feminist Philosophy, Sex, Ethics and Philosophy

Group C: Experience and Reason, Aesthetics through History

If joint honours philosophy students are doing either 60 or 80 credits of philosophy in Stage II, they are required to choose optional modules from at least two groups. If they are doing only 40 credits of philosophy in Stage II, then this rule does not apply - they can choose two modules from just one group.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aesthetics through History 09 30872 20 Semester 1
LI Climate and Environmental Ethics 08 38929 20 Semester 2
LI Elements of Metaphysics 09 30074 20 Semester 1
LI Experience and Reason: Early Modern Philosophy 08 26781 20 Semester 1
LI Feminist Philosophy 08 26782 20 Semester 2
LI Logic 09 40218 20 Semester 2
LI Philosophy of Mental Health 09 30841 20 Semester 1
LI Science and Nature 09 30886 20 Semester 1
LI Sex, Ethics & Philosophy 09 23955 20 Semester 2
LI The Ethics of Killing 08 26826 20 Semester 2

Students may choose ONE 20-credit module in place of an optional module in either department:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom 09 37804 20 Semester 2
LI Media in Practice 09 37869 20 Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. 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 undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.