Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. Ancient and Medieval with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 2
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Topics in History 09 39689 20 Semester 2
Understanding Ancient Societies 09 27278 20 Semester 1

Students choose 80 credits of optional modules.

Students must choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 AND TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2. This may include up to 40 credits of appropriate level ancient language modules and/or ONE 20-credit Professional or Future Skills module.
Credits must be evenly balanced between semesters.
All optional lists are indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

History Options
Students may choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 AND/ OR ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2.
List A (Semester 1)
This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Option: Radical Pieties: Militants, Martyrs and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam 09 38266 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 38268 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds 09 38272 20 Semester 1

History Options
Students may choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 AND/ OR ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2.
List B (Semester 2)
This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Option: Crusading Societies in Medieval Europe 09 38816 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Saints and Sinners: Heroes, Villains, and ‘Influencers’ in Britain and Europe, 800-1800 09 40777 20 Semester 2
LI Option: State and Empire in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 09 38269 20 Semester 2

Sources Options List C: Students may choose ONE 20-credit option from the following in Semester 2:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Sources in History: Memorials 09 39801 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Money 09 39802 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Official Documents 09 39804 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Personal Documents 09 39805 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Possessions 09 39806 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Testimonies 09 39808 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Texts and Tales 09 39809 20 Semester 2

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

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Athenian Drama 09 27279 20 Semester 2
LI Classical Epic 09 27261 20 Semester 1
LI East Meets West: Power, Knowledge and Culture in the Hellenistic World 09 39833 20 Semester 1
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 1
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 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 2

Language Modules.

Students may choose up to 40 credits of the appropriate level ancient language:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Advanced Texts 09 40773 20 Semester 2
LI Egyptian Language 1 09 40537 20 Semester 1
LI Egyptian Language 2 09 40538 20 Semester 2
LI Greek 1 09 38788 20 Semester 1
LI Greek 2 09 38789 20 Semester 2
LI Latin 1 09 38847 20 Semester 1
LI Latin 2 09 38848 20 Semester 2

Students may also take the following in place of one of their optional 20-credit modules in either CAHA or History:

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

OR 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