Durham University, United Kingdom, Durham

Ancient History and Archaeology, B.A.

Course Highlights

These fascinating degrees allow you to combine practical hands-on work with traditional academic study. You will take part in fieldwork, on real excavations and finds, and learn about historic buildings, scientific methods, archaeological theories, computer techniques and how they all help us to understand the past.

Career Opportunities

Career options for arts and humanities graduates: jobs you can do with a degree in arts and culture, languages, English, Irish, classics, philosophy, theology, performing arts etc. If you are graduating with a degree in arts or humanities, it's likely that you chose your subject for its own sake rather than as a means to an end or with a view to going into a particular career. Apart from teaching, there are very few career areas directly related to humanities graduates who wish to use their subject. That does not mean, though, that your career is not relevant to your job search.

Course Overview

Study the Greek and Roman world at one of the largest and most vibrant Classics departments in the UK. Our academic staff work in a truly interdisciplinary way and specialise in a wide range of artistic, historical, literary, linguistic, cultural and philosophical aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. This programme offers a wide variety of modules: ancient Greek and Latin for every level of ability, surveys of the main periods and themes of Greek and Roman history, and teaching in all aspects of Classical culture, including philosophy, art, and literature in translation. I want to find another Bachelor Course Also, there are three Single Honours courses, with a common first year intended to emphasise the unity of the subject. Each of these degrees has a different emphasis, depending on which area you prefer to put at the centre of your degree: ancient languages, ancient history, or ancient culture.

Subjects

Programme Structure Crisis of the Roman Republic Roman Buildings and their Decoration Emperors and Dynasties The Hellenistic World Ancient Political Thought and Action Living in the Classical World Greek Literature and the Near East Interpreting Greek Tragedy Today Traditions of Epic Creation and Cosmology Plato on Knowledge, Truth and Falsehood Latin Literature of the Early Empire Ancient Epistolography Classical Theories of Soul Ancient Philosophers on Memory and Recollection Dialogues with Antiquity Stoicism Alexandria Beginners Latin Urbs Roma Roman Syria The World of Greek Rituals Myth, Memory and History The Life and Times of Cicero The Later Roman Empire

English Entry Requirement

You only need to take one of these language tests:

Contact Details

Durham University