Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: One year full-time, two years part-time
Our Ancient History MA offers you the opportunity to study Greek, Roman and near-Eastern history at an advanced level. You will also learn and refine the techniques and skills you need to be able to analyse and interpret a variety of historical sources.
This is an intercollegiate course that draws on the strengths of King’s, UCL, Royal Holloway and the Institute of Classical Studies. It leads to further research or careers in education, journalism, finance, politics and the cultural sector.
A minimum 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
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Our graduates are highly sought after, and they take the skills and knowledge they developed with us to excel in careers in teaching, journalism, cultural management or the financial sector. Others have continued their studies to further research.
Required modules
Sources & Methods in Ancient History (30 credits)
Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, students are required to choose modules totalling 30 credits from a range of History modules that may typically include:
Alexander’s Afterlife (15 credits)
Persepolis: a cultural biography of the 'wonder of the East' (15 credits)
Greek Religion
Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (15 credits)
Pompeii and Herculaneum: History, Society & Afterlife (15 credits)
Greek Epigraphy (15 credits)
Roman Britain
Christian persecution: Violence and memory under Rome (15 credits)
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