Graduate Taught Modules

MA modules are updated over the summer, and module catalogue links will be added when available.

Module Selection

Please refer to your Degree pages (MA Classics｜MA Reception) for your module diet structure. Modules which utilise advanced ancient language skills are marked with an *asterisk (MA Classics 30 credit requirement).

Please see this UCL guidance page on module selection. If you have any queries about modules please contact the MA Tutor and MA Administrator.

Compulsory Modules (30 credits)

ClassicsReception
CLAS0168 Approaches to ClassicsCLAS0111 Approaches to the Reception of the Classical World
CLAS0051 MA Classics: DissertationCLAS0126 Dissertation: Reception of the Classical World

⮚ MA modules 2025-26

1. Modules taught by UCL Department of Greek and Latin
Term 1Term 2
Both Term 1 and 2
*CLAS0154 Latin for Research 1*CLAS0156 Latin for Research 2
CLAS0112 Ancient Rome on Film: From Pre-Cinema to the 1950sCLAS0120 Ancient Rome on Film: From the 1950s to the 21st Century 
CLAS0062 Greek DramaCLAS0124 Ancient Greece on Stage
Greek Papyrology (CLAS0159)CLAS0166 The Body and the Senses in Greco-Roman Literature
AMEL0008 Fragmentary Languages of Forgotten EmpiresCLAS0104 Cicero: Rhetoric and Politics 2
 Greek Historiography (CLAS0080)
*CLAS0077 The Greek dialects
*AMEL0003 Introductory Sanskrit
2. Modules taught by Participating Institutions

You may take intercollegiate modules as part of your degree. Please always refer to the updated list and guidance on the Institute of Classical Studies website. Please email the MA Administrator about any intercollegiate queries. 

3. Electives

You may take a maximum of one UCL module offered by a different department at UCL subject to the approval of the MA Tutor and by permission of the relevant department. Possible departments of interest may be Film Studies, Italian Studies, Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies and CLIE. Please follow these links to explore the modules that may be available as an elective from other UCL departments.
Please contact the MA Tutor if you would like to take an elective module. 

Sample electives 
ARCL0155 Social Complexity of Early ChinaCMII0114 Translation in History: Theory, Practice and Reception
PHIL0187 Ancient Greek Philosophical LanguageANTH0059 Anthropology of Religion
CMII0182 Fictions of GriefCMII0183 The Child in Film
  • Modules for 2026-27 will be added in the spring of 2026.