Study Abroad

Degree programmes in the Department of Greek and Latin are offered with the option of a year abroad at a partner university in Europe.

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BA Classics and the Ancient World with Year Abroad

Structure

  • Years 1 and 2 are spent at UCL: students must take 45 credits of the language of country they intend to visit (30 in Year 1, 15 in Year 2) unless they can demonstrate proficiency.
  • The third year is spent at a partner university in Europe.
  • In the fourth and final year students are back at UCL.

In all other respects the structure is identical to the three-year BA Classics and the Ancient World programme without year abroad.

  • Note that the foreign language requirement means that course choices will be more limited in years 1-2.

See the UCL course catalogue for a full description of

Partner Universities

  • We currently have agreements with the following universities. These agreements are revisited every few years and can change.

University of Innsbruck | Sorbonne Université | Université de Strasbourg | Universität Heidelberg | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | Eötvös Loránd University | Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) | Università degli Studi di Siena | Università degli Studi di Torino | Università di Bologna | Universitetet i Oslo | Uniwersytet Jagiellonski/Jagiellonian University | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Universidad de Valencia | Université de Genève

Year Abroad FAQs

Three partner universities allow this: Jagiellonian University (Kraków), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), and the University of Oslo.

You must take courses with a value of at least 60 European Credit Transfers (ECTs), and at least half of those must be in the field of Classics and the Ancient World. Students taking the BA Classics pathway must also take at least one course in Greek and one course in Latin.

The grades are not imported into your degree, but full attendance and participation is compulsory and you need to pass the courses you take.

You do not need to complete academic modules at UCL, but you need to write two short reports on your progress, documenting your attendance and grades achieved so far. These are “shell units”, and are submitted via Moodle at the end of December (CLAS0144 Progress Portfolio A) and the end of May (CLAS0145 Progress Portfolio B) of the Year Abroad. They each have a nominal value of 60 credits.

Yes, you can switch out of the Year Abroad degree programme. It is more difficult to switch into the the Year Abroad degree from the three-year programme, since all our spaces at partner universities may have been filled (it may not be possible).

No, the UK no longer participates in the Erasmus+ scheme. Arrangements with partner universities are bilateral agreements which have been arranged by UCL.

Every year a large number of students join us (for a year or a semester) from universities in Europe and around the world. For information see the Study Abroad at UCL website.

UCL provides a complete induction for students preparing to spend a year abroad, and provides support while students are abroad.