M.Phil Programme Structure

The M. Phil is full-time and lasts for 12 months, starting in September. Teaching will be spread over 24 weeks from September to the following April. The course consists of a combination of compulsory and optional components that together make up the 90 ECTS expected for full-time study over one academic year at Masters Level:

Compulsory components

1. Research in Classics: Approaches and Methods (15 ECTS): one 2-hour seminar per week.
2. Academic Skills (5 ECTS)
3. Dissertation (30 ECTS)
4. Taught Module Options (40 ECTS)

   Students take 40 credits comprised of either:
   one beginner’s language plus one taught module per term
   OR
   two taught modules per term

   a) Language Courses (20 ECTS) – all year

   • i. Greek Language for beginners
   • ii. Latin Language for beginners

   b) Seminars (10 ECTS) – one term

   Seminars offered in 2011-12 will be:

   Michaelmas term (Semester I):

   • Lost in the labyrinth? ‘Reading’ Aegean Bronze Age art (Dr Christine Morris)
   • Greeks and Barbarians (Dr Shane Wallace)
   • Gender and genre in Augustan poetry (Prof Monica Gale)
   • Textual Criticism: Editing Ancient Latin Texts (Prof Anna Chahoud)

   Hilary Term (Semester II):

   • Curiosity and Crisis in the Late-fifth Century: Receptions of the Sophists (Dr Ashley Clements)
   • Rulers and Image-making in the Hellenistic World (Prof Brian McGing)
   • The Eternal City: the Archaeology of the City of Rome (Dr Hazel Dodge)
   • Classics and European Identity (Prof Anna Chahoud)

    

5. A Directed Reading Module (10 ECTS) – one term

   As agreed with the Programme Director, after consultation with members of staff, and subject to availability