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See the UCL Prospectus and the Department of Greek and Latin for further information.
This three-year degree programme offers students the opportunity to study Greek and English in parallel, and to gain knowledge of two diverse bodies of language, literature and culture, and the relations between them. The programme allows you to develop your skills in criticism and expression, cultural self-awareness and comparison. The degree is administered by the Department of Greek and Latin, with teaching shared equally between Greek and Latin and the English Department.
Learning
You will be taught through lectures, seminars and small-group work. Some courses will involve student presentations. You will be assigned a Personal Tutor in both departments, with whom you will review your progress on a regular basis.
In the English Department students will be producing two tutorial essays a term (one for each of their English courses) for one-to-one tutorials with their Personal Tutor. A mark based on tutorial essays and on oral performance in tutorials will be awarded at the end of each term. These marks do not contribute to combined-studies students' final degree profiles, but completion of the tutorial essays is required for the successful completion of the English component of the course.
Assessment
The course will be examined by a mixture of essays, end-of-year examinations, and a compulsory final-year extended essay based on supervised independent research (overseen by the Greek and Latin Department). Some Greek-language courses involve in-class tests and grammar quizzes. The English component consists of six written papers, two per year. All courses will be examined by written examination at the end of the year in which they are taught. Students may choose to write one Course Essay of not more than 8,000 words long in place of one three-hour desk examination, either in their second or third year. (Please note that as the Literary Linguistics and Literary Representation and History of Homosexuality courses are both examined by Course Essay, only one of these courses can be chosen as part of the Greek and English BA.)
