Classics and the Ancient World: all modules

Undergraduate modules available to students taking the Classics and Ancient World degree are listed below. Text and thematic modules are rotated and not available every year.

Not all modules run every year (a link to the UCL module catalogue indicates that a course is running)
All Ancient World staff at UCL

Classics modules in translation: first year

Code	Title	Credits
CLAS0001	Greek Myth: Its Use And Meaning	15
CLAS0004	Approaches to the Ancient World	15
CLAS0005	Interpreting Greek Literature	15
CLAS0006	Interpreting Latin Literature	15
CLAS0009	Introduction to the Study of Language	15
CLAS0146	Emotions in the Ancient World	15
LITC0004	The Literature of Travel [not running 24-25]	15

Classics modules in translation: second and final years

Code	Title	Credits
CLAS0011	Greek Tragedy	15
CLAS0136	Greek Comedy [not running 24-25: alternates with Greek Tragedy]	15
CLAS0014	Roman Epic	15
CLAS0017	Roman Authors: Roman Love Poetry [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0019	Subverting the Canon [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0020	Classics and Literary Theory	15
CLAS0025	The Dialogues of Plato [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0032	Epic and Empire [not running 24-25] (Final year students only)	15
CLAS0036	Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics	15
CLAS0045	Xenophon: Politics, Identity and Text [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0046	Roman Satire and its reception [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0138	Greek Authors: Homer	15
CLAS0147	Classical Poetry and its Reception in English Literature	30
CLAS0160	Race: Antiquity and its Legacy	15
CLAS0162	Archaic Greece, 800-479: A Cultural History [not running 24-25]	30
CLAS0170	Augustan Culture	15
CLAS0164	Greeks and Jews: Antiquity and the Modern World [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0043	Essay on an Approved Subject (Final year students only)	15
CLAS0169	Dramaturgy, Ancient and Modern	15
CLAS0173	Moral Education in Ancient Greek Philosophical Sources	15

Philosophy modules in translation

Code	Title	Credits
	First year
PHIL0001	Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy	15
	Second & third year
CLAS0025	Dialogues of Plato [not running 24-25]	15
CLAS0036	Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics	15
PHIL0030	Topics in Aristotle	15
PHIL0044	Aristotle's Moral Psychology [not running 24-25]	15
PHIL0017	Topics in Greek Philosophy: Plato	15
→	❧ See other Philosophy modules in the Philosophy department ☙

Modules in Ancient Greek

Code	Title	Credits
GREK0002	Greek for Beginners A	15
GREK0039	Greek for Beginners B	15
GREK0005	Intermediate Greek A	15
GREK0040	Intermediate Greek B	15
GREK0008	Advanced Greek A and B	30
GREK0009	Advanced Greek A	15
GREK0010	Greek Translation	15
GREK0012	Essay on an Approved Subject (Greek) (Final year students only)	15
GREK0035	Homer: Iliad [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0036	Homer: Odyssey [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0037	Ancient Greek prose [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0051	Aeschylus [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0052	Euripides	15
GREK0054	Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0056	Herodotus	15
GREK0059	Sophocles [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0057	Longus, Daphnis and Chloe [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0062	Plato [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0022	Greek Papyrology	15
GREK0065	Introduction to the History of Greek [not running 24-25]	15
GREK0001	The Greek Dialects [not running 24-25]	30
GREK0019	Mycenaean Greek	30

Modules in Latin

Code	Title	Credits
LATN0034	Latin for Beginners A	15
LATN0003	Latin for Beginners B	15
LATN0004	Intermediate Latin A	15
LATN0035	Intermediate Latin B	15
LATN0005	Advanced Latin A and B	30
LATN0006	Advanced Latin A	15
LATN0008	Latin Translation	15
LATN0009	Latin Prose Composition	15
LATN0001	Roman Drama [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0002	Virgil [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0010	Late and Medieval Latin	15
LATN0011	Latin Palaeography	15
LATN0012	Essay on an Approved Subject (Latin) (Final year students only)	15
LATN0019	Latin Poetry and its Translations [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0021	Cicero [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0033	The Roman Historians	15
LATN0037	Ovid [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0043	Horace	15
LATN0044	Lucretius [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0045	Seneca [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0046	Petronius [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0051	Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0032	History of the Latin Language	15
LATN0052	Street Latin and The Romance Languages [not running 24-25]	15
LATN0053	Roman Rhetoric Theory and Practice [not running 24-25]	15

Modules in Ancient Middle-Eastern Languages

Code	Title	Credits
AMEL0001	Introductory Hittite A [not running 24-25: alternates with Hittite Texts]	15
AMEL0007	Introductory Hittite B: Simple Hittite Texts [not running 24-25: alternates with Hittite Texts]	15
AMEL0005	Hittite Texts	30
AMEL0008	Fragmentary Language of Forgotten Empires	15
HEBR0083	Introductory Akkadian	30
HEBR0108	Intermediate Akkadian	30
HEBR0095	Introductory Sumerian	30
HEBR0120	Introductory Sumerian A	15
HEBR0036	Syriac Language A	15
HEBR0049	Ugaritic	15
HEBR0048	Ugaritic	30
AMEL0003	Introductory Sanskrit	30

HEBR0002	Introduction to Biblical Hebrew	30
HEBR0018	Intermediate Biblical Hebrew	30
HEBR0110	Jewish Literary Aramaic	15

ARCL0044	Introduction to Ancient Egyptian	15
ARCL0159	Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Language	15
ARCL0202	Language and Script in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan	15
ARCL0080	Old and Middle Egyptian Texts [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0082	Coptic Language and Culture	15

Modules in Ancient and Mediaeval History

Code	Title	Credits
	First year
HIST0009	The Romans and Their Past [not running 24-25]	15
HIST0010	Sources for Greek History [not running 24-25]	15
HIST0015	Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality?	15
HIST0152	The Roman empire from Augustus to Theodosius I [not running 24-25]	30
HIST0154	The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the end of the Attalid kingdom	30
HIST0156	The Roman Republic, C.350 BC - 44 BC	30
HIST0164	Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East	30
	Second & third year
HIST0013	The City in the Roman World from c. 100 BC to AD 500	30
HIST0015	Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality?	30
HIST0019	An Economic History of Ancient Greece [not running 24-25]	30
HIST0021	Understanding the Early Mesopotamian World	30
HIST0023	Asia, the Aegean, Europe: Dividing the World in Ancient Greece	30
HIST0230	Aristocracy in Ancient Greece [not running 24-25]	15
HIST0031	Rome AD 300-1000. Portraits of a City	30
HIST0148	The Mediterranean World c.800-c.500 BC [not running 24-25]	30
HIST0154	The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the end of the Attalid Kingdom	30
HIST0156	The Roman Republic, c.350 BC - 44 BC	30
HIST0221	Slavery in the Classical World [not running 24-25]	15
HIST0164	Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East	30
HIST0228	Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period	15
HIST0650	Babylon from Hammurabi to Alexander [not running 24-25]	30
HIST0660	Ancient Middle Eastern Religion [not running 24-25]	15
HIST0787	The Greek World from the end of the Persian wars to the Battle of Chaeronea (479-338 BC)	30
HIST0806	Death and Dying in Ancient Mesopotamia	30
HIST0829	Roman Religion: Belief, Culture and Politics	15
→	❧ See other History modules in the History department ☙

Modules in the History of Science

Code	Title	Credits
	Second & third year
HPSC0067	Science in the Ancient World	15
HPSC0110	Medicine, History and Society	15
→	❧ See other History of Science modules in STS ☙

Modules in ancient Art History and Archaeology

Code	Title	Credits
ARCL0001	Introduction to Roman Archaeology	15
ARCL0005	Introduction to Greek Archaeology	15
ARCL0007	Introduction to Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology	15
ARCL0009	Texts in Archaeology	15
ARCL0015	Roman Coinage [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0016	Roman Britain: History and Archaeology	15
ARCL0017	Greek Art and Architecture	15
ARCL0018	Roman Art and Architecture	15
ARCL0028	The Prehistoric Mediterranean [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0033	Archaeology of the Near East from prehistory to 2000 BC	15
ARCL0135	Aegean Prehistory: Major Themes and Current Debates	15
ARCL0064	The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity	15
ARCL0065	The Archaeology of the Levant [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0066	The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0067	Understanding Complex Societies: Egypt and Mesopotamia [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0068	The Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mediterranean	15
ARCL0069	Painting and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0070	The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy [not running 24-25]	15
ARCL0075	Economy and Trade in the Mediterranean Iron Age	15
ARCL0138	The Mediterranean World in the Iron Age	15
ARCL0147	Themes and debates in Egyptian Archaeology	15
ARCL0157	The Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East: A Comparative Approach	15
ARCL0162	Making and Meaning in Ancient Greek Art	15
ARCL0200	Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Near East: City-States and Empires	15
ARCL0202	Language and Script in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan	15
ARCL0213	Archaeology of the Roman Empire: Current Themes and Debates	15
→	❧ See other Archaeology modules in the Institute of Archaeology ☙

Students may also take appropriate modules at King's College London with the permission of their programme director.
A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS); 15 credits is 7.5 ECTS.

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