Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. Ancient History and Archaeology and History Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

The following must be taken

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Group Research 09 23513 20 Semester 2

Students take 40-80 credits from any of the CAHA modules including Research Skills Seminar A and B (10+10). The list of these will be provided by the Department and differs year by year.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Advanced Greek 1A 09 33660 10 Semester 1
LI Advanced Greek B 09 33663 10 Semester 2
LI Advanced Latin A 09 33616 10 Semester 1
LI Advanced Latin B 09 33618 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar A: Environmental archaeology in the lab 09 36919 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Euripides 09 37093 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Homer and the world of Odysseus 09 36925 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Meet the Greeks 09 36923 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Rhetoric at Rome 09 36936 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar B: Environmental Archaeology in the Lab 09 36920 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Euripides 09 37094 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Homer and the world of Odysseus 09 36926 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Meet the Greeks 09 36924 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Rhetoric at Rome 09 36937 10 Semester 2
LI Matrons and Monsters: Women in Rome and Byzantium 09 36039 20 Semester 2
LI Republican and Imperial Rome 09 36038 20 Semester 2

Students choose from a range of Autumn options which vary from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 2
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War 09 35003 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds. 09 34998 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 30882 20 Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War 10 30805 20 Semester 2
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by the Department of History or a School or Department other than History

Students wishing to take 60 credits in History also choose 20 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI History in Theory & Practice A 09 33715 10 Semester 1
LI History in Theory & Practice B 09 33720 10 Semester 2
LI Research Methods A 09 33726 10 Semester 1
LI Research Methods B 09 33727 10 Semester 2

Students who chose 80 credits in History may take two modules from those just listed above, or may take instead a Spring Option. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Spring Option: American Empire: The United States and the World 09 37108 20 Semester 2
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 1
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History.

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