Ancient History

Course Structure

1. [\'Research Skills in Ancient History - Understanding the City in Antiquit\', \'Latin for Beginners\', "Beginners\' Greek for MA Students", \'Advanced Latin Plus\', \'Advanced Ancient Greek Plus\', \'Early Greek Prose in the Original\', \'Early Greek Prose in the Original\', \'Early Greek Verse in the Original\', \'Early Greek Verse in the Original\', \'Early Latin Prose in the Original\', \'Early Latin Prose in the Original\', \'Early Latin Verse in the Original\', \'Early Latin Verse in the Original\', \'Roman Archaeology: Northern Provinces of the Empire from their Iron Age\', \'The Political, Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World:An\', \'Ancient Greek Science: Astronomy and Medicine\', \'Sexuality, Secrecy and Sin:Ancient Christianity and the World of Late A\', \'CL Dissertation\', \'provide research training in the subject area of ancient history\', \'expand your depth of knowledge of key subject areas in ancient history\', \'attract outstanding students, irrespective of race, background, gender or physical disability from both within the UK, and EU, and also from overseas\', \'develop new areas of postgraduate teaching in response to the advance of scholarship\', \'provide you with the skills to equip you for a further career either for doctoral research in Ancient History, or in employment, with the use of these transferable skills\', \'develop your competence in applying skills to analysis of a diverse body of ancient evidence\', \'develop your critical and analytical powers in relation to the ancient material\', \'provide you with the skills to adapt and respond positively to change\', \'develop critical, analytical problem-based learning skills and the transferable skills to prepare you for graduate employment\', \'enhance the development of your interpersonal skills\', \'provide you with opportunities for shared multidisciplinary learning with archaeology, religious studies and philosophy\', \'assist you to develop the skills required for both autonomous practice and team-working.\', \'a complex range of disciplines, cultural relationships and varied geographical regions\', \'the research skills associated with the use of ancient evidence to produce historical narratives and analyses that engage with the most recent development in research in ancient history\', \'to come to terms with philosophical issues by thinkers of very different cultural and linguistic assumptions from our own\', \'to understand the nature of the societies and political systems of antiquity\', \'be familiar with an appropriate and diverse range of primary materials, epigraphy, papyrology, literature, visual material, and history\', \'a broad and systematic knowledge developed within a coherent framework of complementary subjects, including religion, history and ancient languages.\', \'apply the skills needed for academic study and enquiry\', \'evaluate research and a variety of types of information and evidence critically\', \'synthesise information critically from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding of theory and practice\', \'apply strategies for appropriate selection of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge\', \'utilise problem-solving skills\', \'analyse, evaluate and interpret the evidence underpinning historical, linguistic and literary evidence critically.\', \'having an advanced understanding of another culture, whether focused on its literature, thought, art and religion, or its history and political and social organisation, or its material culture, demonstrate a critical engagement with it, develop an informed sense of the similarities and differences between it and our own culture\', \'have a broad knowledge, developed within a coherent framework, of complementary subjects, drawn from such fields as language, literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, art and archaeology, or theme-based topics which cross the boundaries between them (eg religion, gender studies), and periods\', \'be familiar with and able to evaluate an appropriate and diverse range of primary materials, eg literary, philosophical and historical texts, art objects, archaeological evidence and inscriptions\', \'command a range of techniques and methodologies, such as bibliographical and library research skills, a range of skills in reading and textual analysis, the varieties of historical method, the visual skills characteristic of art criticism, use of statistics (eg in archaeology), philosophical argument and analysis, and analytical grasp of an ancient language.\', \'the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of individuals using a variety of means\', \'the ability to evaluate your own academic performance\', \'the ability to manage change effectively and respond to changing demands\']