Classics

Optional courses

The options available will vary from year to year depending upon operational factors such as patterns of study leave and the evolving research interests of academic staff. Most modules are available via both linguistic and non-linguistic pathways.

Courses currently available include:

• Greek history

• Thucydides

• Hellenistic Poetry

• Cicero de Officiis

Students may also take any other course on offer in Classics, such as those associated with the specialist MLitt programmes.

Language courses

These offer elementary and advanced Greek and Latin language training for postgraduates. Students intending to progress to M.Phil. or PhD, who do not already hold a Level 1 qualification in Latin or Greek, should normally choose 40 credits of language modules. No more than 40 credits of language options may normally be taken as part of a student’s M.Litt. (T) curriculum.

Further topics

By arrangement, students may also study

• further topic in Greek or Latin (texts read in the original) and/or Classical Civilisation (texts read in translation) (worth 20 credits),

• and topics up to 40 credits from any other suitable Arts MLitt(T) programme.

Instruction in non-compulsory elements will be by seminar where enrolment is five or more, or by supervision and directed reading where it falls short of five. These options have a variety of modes of assessment. The general pattern, however, is that 20-credit courses have an assessment of one assignment of 3,000-word length as coursework (essay, project or other; 50% of total assessment) and one three-hour examination.

A student’s curriculum with be finalised at a meeting with the MLitt(T) convener at the start of the academic year.