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Liberal Arts With Classics



Classics and Ancient History is as much about the present as it is about the past. It is a subject that continues to resonate today, helping us to understand modern challenges, 2,500 years after its protagonists built their lives in the ancient Mediterranean.

Like Liberal Arts, Classics at Warwick is a close-knit Department. This allows our award-winning academics to keep an eye on your observations, opinions, and developing interests. You’ll work closely with academics while studying the Classics route through the varied disciplines we study – across literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, and art.

Why study the Classics route?

Liberal Arts students will be well-placed to move confidently between these different disciplines and draw connections between them. You will be asking complex questions about how we know about the past, about different kinds of knowledge, and about our changing understanding of different cultural concepts – and inquiring about the very nature of the relation between past and present that keeps Classics such a contemporary, time-full, subject area.

You will have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of topics to design a route that suits your interests: this could be Greek/Latin language, topics in Greek and/or Latin literature (including comparative literary dimensions), Roman and/or Greek history, archaeology, numismatics (the study of ancient coins), ancient theatre, the reception of antiquity in the Renaissance, ancient science, rhetoric, mythology, religion, race and ethnicity, sex and gender, politics… and the list continues!

Modules

You may be interested in the following Classics modules:

Please note:

  • To study this route
    • In the first year you must study a minimum of 30 CATS from the first-year core or optional Classics modules OR two 15 CATS modules from the first-year core or optional Classics modules.
    • In your second and final year, you must study a minimum of 60 CATS of Classics modules across both years combined (you can choose which ones to take when).
  • NB: Module offerings change annually; individual modules may vary.
  • Visit the Classics and Ancient History website for more information on Classics modules.



Liberal Arts With Classics

Course Overview


In your first year, you will take 120 CATS of 100-level modules. These will be composed by a combination of your:
Core Modules (30 CATS) + Optional Core Modules (30 CATS) + Route Modules (30 CATS) + Optional Modules (30 CATS). Click on the sections below for more information.


IP101

Liberal Arts: Principles and Praxis

0 CATS Terms 1-2

IP121

Truth and Misinformation

30 CATS Terms 1-2-3
CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE RESEARCH METHODS MODULE:

IP110

Quantitative Methods for Interdisciplinary Research

15 CATS Term 2

IP108

Qualitative Methods for Undergraduate Research

15 CATS Term 1
CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE CRITICAL ISSUE MODULE:

IP120

Beauty

15 CATS Term 2

IP122

Revolution

15 CATS Term 1
CHOOSE AT LEAST 30 CATS OF 100-Level Classics Modules

CX1**

Click here for a list of modules offered in Classics

1 x 30 CATS or
2 x 15 CATS
Terms 1-2-3
CHOOSE AT LEAST 30 CATS OF ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL MODULES

***

Choose 30 CATS from any available and approved 100-level modules that interest you from across the University. These can be from Classics as well, or you might wish to explore another area.

1 x 30 CATS or
2 x 15 CATS
Terms 1-2-3

In your second and final years, you will take 120 CATS per year for a total of
240 CATS of 200 and 300-level modules (120 CATS each).

These will be composed by a combination of:
Core Modules (60 CATS) + Optional Core Modules (45 CATS) + Route Modules (60 CATS) + Optional Modules (75 CATS).
Click on the sections below for more information.


IP205

Consuming Cultures

30 CATS

Year 2 – Terms 1-3

IP302

Dissertation 30 CATS Year 3 – Terms 1-3

You must take at least THREE (3) optional core modules between your second and final year (45 CATS total). If you take one of the SCFS Venice Modules, it will count towards this requirement.

NB: Not all modules will run in all years and modules offered are subject to change. The optional modules that we have offered in the past have included the following list:

IP204

The Apocalyptic Imaginary 15 CATS

IP226/IP326

The Liquid Continent

15 CATS

IP304

Posthumous Geographies I: Underworlds

15 CATS

IP305

Posthumous Geographies II: Paradises

15 CATS

IP306

Quantitative Methods: Research Project

15 CATS

IP309

Quantitative Research Methods: Understanding Relationships in Data

15 CATS

IP312

The Quest I: Departures and Heroic Journeys

15 CATS

IP313

The Quest II: Exile and Homecoming

15 CATS

IP315

(Taught in Venice)

A Sustainable Serenissima: Water and the Future of Venice

This module is offered through the Alliance Intensive Study Programme

Hear about what the 2022-23 module cohort got up to in Venice in July 2022.

15 CATS

IP317

(Taught in Venice)

Venice: Resistance and Representation

This module is offered through the Alliance Intensive Study Programme

Hear about what the 2022-23 module cohort got up to in Venice in July 2022.

15 CATS


You can see a list of our current offering of optional modules by clicking on this link: Honours-Level Optional Core Modules in Liberal Arts

CHOOSE AT LEAST 60 CATS OF 200 and 300-Level Classics Modules

CX2**/3**

Click here for a list of modules offered in Classics

2 x 30 CATS or
4 x 15 CATS
Terms 1-2-3
NB: 200-Level Modules cannot be taken in your final year of study.
NB: 200-Level Modules cannot be taken in your final year of study.
CHOOSE 75 CATS OF ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL MODULES

***

Choose 75 CATS from any available and approved 200- and 300-level modules that interest you from across the University. These can be from Classics as well, or you might wish to explore another area.

75 CATS total Terms 1-2-3

Intercalated Year (optional)

Are you interested in extending your degree by a year? You can do so either via an additional year of study abroad or work placement:


Study Abroad Year

An optional intercalated year abroad is available between your second year and final year. Click here for more information on our Year Abroad partnerships: Liberal Arts Year Abroad Options.

Dr. Bryan Brazeau is the Department's Study Abroad Coordinator. Click here to contact him and find out more.


Work Placement Year

An optional intercalated work placement is available between your second year and final year. Click here for more information on the Intercalated Work Year option: Liberal Arts Intercalated Work Placements.

Bodrun Nahar is the Department's Employability and Placement Manager. Click here to contact her and find out more.



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