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Please note that this page is in the process of being updated, and module catalogue links will be added when available.
Module Selection
Please refer to your Programme 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
| Classics | Reception |
|---|---|
| CLAS0168 Approaches to Classics | CLAS0111 Approaches to the Reception of the Classical World |
| CLAS0051 MA Classics: Dissertation | CLAS0126 Dissertation: Reception of the Classical World |
Modules taught by UCL Department of Greek and Latin
| Term 1 | Term 2 |
|---|---|
| *CLAS0154 Latin for Research 1 | *CLAS0156 Latin for Research 2 |
| CLAS0112 Ancient Rome on Film: From Pre-Cinema to the 1950s | CLAS0120 Ancient Rome on Film: From the 1950s to the 21st Century |
| CLAS0062 Greek Drama | CLAS0058 Greek Papyrology |
| CLAS0124 Ancient Greece on Stage | CLAS0103 Cicero: Rhetoric and Politics |
| CLAS0160 Race, Antiquity and its Legacy | CLAS0166 The Body and the Senses in Greco-Roman Literature |
| CLAS0XXX Dramaturgy | |
| AMELXXXX Fragmentary Languages | |
| Both Term 1 and 2 | |
*CLAS0064 Mycenaean Greek | |
| *AMEL0005 Hittite Texts | |
Modules taught by Participating Institutions
You may take intercollegiate modules as part of your programme. 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.
The table below showcases example modules from 2023-24.
| ICS | KCL | RHUL | UCL History |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wine, Oil and Grain in Greece and Rome: Production to Consumption | Reorienting Antiquity | Household and Empire: The Roman Family from Augustus to Justinian | The Crusades...a Clash of Civilizations |
| Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage | The Roman City - Pompeii and Herculaneum | Augustine of Hippo and the Last Days of Rome | The Economy of Classical Athens |
| Places, Artefacts and Images: Digital approaches to cultural heritage | Late Antique Magic | Problems and Methods in Rhetoric and Oratory | Medieval Manuscripts and Documents |
| Classical Antiquity at the FIn de Siecle: Art, Sexuality, Religion and Madness | City of Athens | Images and Image Making in the Ancient Middle East | |
| *Beginners Ancient Greek for Research | *Latin for Research (Beginners) | A Global History of the Middle Ages? |
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.