MA in Classical World and Its Reception
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 27,996 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* first application deadline
** UK students: £12,468 per year | International students: £27,996 per year
Introduction
The MA in Classical World and Its Reception course explores the way the Classical world has been reflected in the art, literature and culture of later periods, and how the ancient world has shaped the modern.
The course is interdisciplinary and is open to students with no prior knowledge of ancient languages.
Key benefits
- Study in one of the UK’s largest and oldest departments of Classics. Classics has been taught on the Strand for over 200 years.
- Classics at King’s ranked first in the UK for research excellence (REF 2021) and third among UK Classics Departments in the QS World Rankings 2022.
- Unrivalled location for the study of the ancient world thanks to London’s unique range of specialist libraries, museums and galleries.
- Extraordinarily wide choice of modules, drawing on the resources of the whole of the University of London.
Course essentials
Our MA course focuses on the way the classical world has influenced the culture of later periods, and how it continues to do so. With a strong focus on research, the course is taught in the Department of Classics by experts in the field of classical reception. Our Department’s research and teaching strengths stretch from the Aegean Bronze Age and the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome to Byzantine and Modern Greek literature and culture. This means we can offer you a breadth of expertise that is unmatched anywhere in the world. Through this advanced course of study, we will develop your literary, historical, and archaeological analysis skills, and provide you with the opportunity to learn ancient and modern languages to extend these skills.
Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Admissions
Curriculum
Structure
Required modules
You are required to take:
- Research Training in Classical Reception (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition you are required to take four to eight modules (totalling 120 credits) from a range of options that may typically include:
- Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture & its Legacy (30 credits)
- The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (30 credits)
- Roman Britain (30 credits)
- Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (15 credits)
- Alexander’s Afterlife (15 credits)
- Persepolis: a cultural biography of the 'wonder of the East' (15 credits)
- Living in Byzantium: Material Culture & Built Environment in Late Antiquity (15 credits)
- Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (15 credits)
- Classical Antiquity at the Fin de Siècle: Art, Sexuality, Religion and Madness (15 credits)
- Medieval Latin Literature (30 credits)
- Homer (30 credits)
- Latin Lyric Poetry (15 credits)
- Tacitus & Nero (30 credits)
- Engaging Greece (30 credits)
- A language module from the King’s Modern Language Centre (15 credits)
Other master’s modules offered by:
- UCL Department of Greek & Latin
- UCL Department of History
- UCL Institute of Archaeology
- RHUL Department of Classics
- RHUL Department of History
As a part-time student, you will take Research Training in Classical Reception in your first year along with 45 to 60 credits of optional modules. In your second year, you will take your dissertation module and a further 30 to 45 credits of optional modules.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered regularly to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, the modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place for all students who elect to study this module.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The advanced skills that we give you have proved very popular with employers in a wide range of professions, and many of our graduates use the skills and knowledge they develop with us to pursue further research in our Department. Others go on to excel in careers in teaching, journalism, cultural management or the financial sector.