Programme Requirements for 2023/24 Session


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

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

Students must take either a 40-credit Dissertation or a 20-credit Extended Essay/Independent Study during their final year. The 40-credit Dissertation, or the 20-credit Extended Essay / Independent Study can be taken either in Anthropology, or in Classical Literature and Civilisation

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation 09 23603 40 Full Term
LH Independent Study 09 17954 20 Full Term

Students may request an exemption if they are undertaking a substantial amount of independent work on the other side of their degree programme, but no student should take less than 20 credits of independent work across their degree programme in their final year.

Students taking the 40 credit Dissertation module should choose a further 20 credits from a list of options available within the department.

Students taking the 20 credit Independent Study module should choose a further 40 credits from a list of options available within the department.

Students who are exempt from the Dissertation and Independent Study modules should choose 60 credits from a list of options available within the department.
Available optional modules may include:

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 Development in Africa 09 37919 20 Semester 2
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH Political Anthropology 09 35014 20 Semester 2
LH The Anthropology of Tomorrow 09 38811 20 Semester 2
LI From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28016 20 Semester 1
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1

Students take 40-80 credits from CAHA modules. Students must take at least one Dissertation, Linked Dissertation or Extended Essay across their two subjects. They may take no more than one CAHA Extended Essay.

Students may choose any combination of modules in CAHA subjects as long as they do at least 50 and no more than 70 in each semester across both parts of their JH degree

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject A: (De)constructing the Romans 09 37882 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: Performance Culture in the Ancient World 09 37889 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37462 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: The Spartan kosmos 545-371 BCE 09 37469 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject B: (De)constructing the Romans 09 37807 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: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37371 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Performance Culture in the Ancient World 09 37808 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: Ritual and Religion: performance, materiality and belief 09 37463 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject B: The Spartan kosmos 545-371 BCE 09 37470 20 Semester 2
CAHA Dissertation 09 26194 40 Full Term
LH Age of Empires 09 27256 20 Semester 1
LH CAHA Extended Essay 09 28092 20 Full Term
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 1 09 38790 20 Semester 1
LH Greek 2 09 38791 20 Semester 2
LH Greek 3 09 38813 20 Semester 1
LH Greek Mythology 09 27276 20 Semester 2
LH Greek Texts 09 38814 20 Semester 2
LH Hellenistic Literature 09 29632 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Egyptian A 09 34715 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Egyptian B 09 34716 20 Semester 2
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27512 40 Full Term
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
LH Love in Greek Literature 09 28093 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject A: Living and dying in wetlands 09 37369 20 Semester 1
LH War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Roman World 09 30686 20 Semester 2

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1