We are proud to provide an outstanding educational experience, using the most effective learning and teaching approaches, carefully tailored to suit the specific needs of your course. Our courses consist of in-person, on-campus teaching, enabling full engagement with your lecturers and fellow students.
Practical skills sessions, seminars, and workshops predominantly take place in person, allowing for group working and presentations. However, our approach also includes the use of some online learning to support and enhance traditional face-to-face teaching.
Online learning may take place ‘live’ using software such as Zoom, allowing you to interact with the lecturer and peers and to ask questions. Lecture recordings also allow for more flexibility to revisit material, to revise for assessments and to enhance learning outside of the classroom. All modules have extra resources in our virtual learning environment (Canvas), such as videos, slides and quizzes enabling further flexible study.
The full-time course structure is split across the year with three modules offered in each academic semester (a total of six modules in part one) and then a dissertation over the summer (part two). Students study two compulsory modules to develop their research skills in preparation for their dissertation, plus at least one module of an ancient language and three optional modules. The dissertation component is written on a specialist research topic of your choosing.
Part-time students take one compulsory module to develop their research skills in preparation for their dissertation, a language and an optional module in their first year; in their second year they take a further research skills module and two optional modules (which can include additional language study), and will write their dissertation over the summer.