ObjectivesThis programme offers students an opportunity to combine the study of ancient history, art and society through texts in translation with History of Art and Architecture. In Ancient History students will examine the history, art and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. In History of Art and Architecture you will gain the analytical and descriptive skills to understand the meaning and significance of the visual arts.
Entry requirementsThere are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
Academic titleBA Ancient History and History of Art
Course descriptionYear 1
-Fifth Century Athens
-Augustan Rome
-History of Art and Architecture Workshop
-Greek Myths
-Latin
-Ancient Greek
-Art's Histories: a survey
-Makers and making: artist, architects and their practices
Year 2
-Greek History
-Roman Republic
-Roman Empire
-Study Trip Abroad
-Distance and difference: perspectives on art, architecture and visual culture
-Greece and Egypt
-Greek Sculpture
-Greek and Roman Medicine
-Macedonian History
-Uses and Abuses of Antiquity
-Roman Epic
-Greek Religion
-Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
-Latin
-Ancient Greek
-Art and Power in fifteenth-century Italy
-Altars, Aristocrats and Guillotines
-Heroes and Hero Worship
-Modern Art and Architecture and its Discontents
Year 3
Dissertation
-Gender
-Ancient Biography
-Greek and Roman Painting
-Roman Religions
-Renaissance Medicine
-Classics and Empire
-Anatolia and the Aegean
-Receptions of Homer
-Latin
-Ancient Greek
-Brunelleschi and Renaissance architecture
-Palladio: architecture and science