Available as Masters or Diploma

Masters

This interdisciplinary MA programme provides an exciting and challenging forum for tracing, debating and interpreting the archaeology and history of the Classical Mediterranean world across the Greek and Roman periods (approx. 7th century BC to 5th century AD), as well as investigating its reception in the modern world. Available as a one-year full time course, or part time over two years, it will equip students with the skills needed to develop their career trajectories, whether they aim to go on to conduct doctoral research in Archaeology or Ancient History (or both!) or seek to become professionals in archaeology or in museum contexts or elsewhere.

The course (available as a Masters degree or a Diploma) moves away from traditional art-historical and structuralist approaches and from traditional narratives of emergent and developing powers in the Classical Mediterranean to question more the ways in which we reconstruct the classical past, to identify the interplay and debate between sources (physical and written) and to interrogate current understandings and perceptions of Greek to Roman societies across the span of the Mediterranean. Our integrated exploration of texts and material culture within a range of spatial and landscape contexts enables far fuller recognition of the societies and economies that shaped classical antiquity.

The School features a high concentration of relevant staff expertise and specialisms exceptional in Britain, ranging from Greek urban societies to Roman economies and late antique identities. Our expertise extends fully from southern Gaul to North Africa and Syria to enable coherent analysis of the whole Mediterranean. Few comparable MA programmes exist in Britain.

Our blend of expertise and approaches will ensure critical and current integrated engagement with the extant evidence and will provide detailed grounding in research skills. In addition to core modules, our choice of options enables students the opportunity to specialise in one or more key aspects of Mediterranean archaeological or ancient historical studies.

Diploma

The 120-credit Diploma comprises four modules, but omits the dissertation. There may also be scope to take a 90-credit dissertation plus three modules: two core and one option.

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