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Master of Arts (Honours) Classics and Comparative Literature


MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 AND
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Classics (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: GK1001 - GK1002 OR
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: GK1005 - GK1006 ) AND
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

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( View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 ) AND
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options AND

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
CO2001 Good and Evil 20 AND
CO2002 Journeys 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

OR with the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001 or CO2002 and 20 credits in a cognate subject.

If credits are taken in a cognate subject an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL modules must be achieved to guarantee honours entry.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • Average of grade 7 or better OR With the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001, CO2002 and 20 credits in cognate subject with an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL credits.
MA (Hons) Classics (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( * View list 40 credits from Module List: GK2001 - GK2002 OR
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
* View list 40 credits from Module List: GK2003 - GK2004 ) AND
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

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( ~ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

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~ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 ) AND
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Note:
Students who took GK1001 and GK1002 in their first year should take GK2003 and GK2004 in their second.
Students who took GK1005 and GK1006 in their first year should take GK2001 and GK2002 in their second.
Students who took LT1001 and LT1002 in their first year should take LT2003 and LT2004 in their second.
Students who took LT1003 and LT1004 in their first year should take LT2001 and LT2002 in their second

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 7 or better in at least 1 of the modules marked *
  • pass at grade 7 or better in at least 1 of the modules marked ~

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3000 - CO3019 AND
CO3001 Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations I 15
CO3003 Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations 2 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049
CO3020 Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
CO4021 Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
CO4026 Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
CO4028 Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
CO4030 The Short Story 15
CO4031 Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

For Joint Honours degrees involving a School other than Moden Languages the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Classics (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989 AND
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: LT3019, LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4435 The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA Classic (Joint Honours) Year 3 and 4 Programme Requirements
30 credits: GK4000 - GK4989;
30 credits: LT3019, LT4000 - LT4989;
30 further credits: GK4000-GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, ((GK4999 or LT4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only);
30 further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).

240 credits must be achieved at levels 3000 and 4000 with a minimum of 90 credits at 4000 Level.
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049, CO4098 - CO4099, ML4794
CO3020 Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
CO4021 Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
CO4026 Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
CO4028 Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
CO4030 The Short Story 15
CO4031 Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
CO4098 Short Dissertation in Comparative Literature 15
CO4099 Long Dissertation in Comparative Literature 30
ML4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

For Joint Honours degrees involving a School other than Moden Languages the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Classics (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989 AND
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: LT3019, LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 OR
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: GK4999, LT4999, CL4794 ) AND
GK4999 Dissertation in Greek 30
LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30
CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 OR
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4435 The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4460 Classical Collections 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: ID4002 and CL4990 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA Classic (Joint Honours) Year 3 and 4 Programme Requirements
30 credits: GK4000 - GK4989;
30 credits: LT4000 - LT4989;
30 further credits: GK4000-GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, ((GK4999 or LT4999 or CL4794) - in Fourth Year only);
30 further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).

240 credits must be achieved at levels 3000 and 4000 with a minimum of 90 credits at 4000 Level.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).