MA in Classical Art and Archaeology
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 27,996 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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** UK students: £12,468 per year | International students: £27,996 per year
Introduction
The MA in Classical Art and Archaeology course offers you the opportunity to study Greek and Roman art and archaeology at one of the largest Classics departments in the UK. The course is intercollegiate with options taught at King’s, UCL and Royal Holloway and you can take advantage of our close links to the Institute of Classical Studies, one of the UK’s best Classical libraries.
It gives you the unique opportunity to acquire technical skills provided by optional modules in papyrology, epigraphy and palaeography.
It leads to further research or careers in education, journalism, finance, politics and the cultural sector.
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
Through this Classical Art & Archaeology MA, you will examine painting, pottery, sculpture and mosaics, and explore the craftsmanship that produced archaeologically significant works. Traditionally, classical archaeology has focused on the art history of Classical Greece and Italy but has more recently branched out geographically and chronologically. Archaeology has also become more theoretical in recent decades.
This course explores the relationship between humans and their material environment. We consider engagement in field projects as essential for the continuing health of the discipline. All trends are well represented here at King’s.
Our expert staff covers an extraordinarily wide range of specialisms including Bronze Age Aegean, Late Antique and Byzantine archaeology, and architecture, Roman Britain, Persian monuments, Greek pottery, and Roman mosaics, while many other staff members employ art historical and archaeological methods in their work.
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 Archaeology (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, students are required to choose modules totalling 30 credits from a range of Archaeology modules that may typically include:
- Minoans and Mycenaeans (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)
- Archaic and Classical Painting (15 credits) or Hellenistic and Roman Painting (15 credits)
- Ancient Mosaics: Making and Meaning (30 credits)
- Roman Britain (30 credits)
- Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (15 credits)
- Words and Pictures (15 credits)
- Living in Byzantium: Material Culture & Built Environment in Late Antiquity (15 credits)
- Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (15 credits)
Choose two to four modules totalling 60 credits from a range of options that typically include:
- The City of Rome (British School at Rome Annual Postgraduate Course) (30 credits)
- Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (30 credits)
- Alexander’s Afterlife (15 credits)
- Persepolis: A Cultural Biography of the 'Wonder of the East' (15 credits)
- Greek Religion: Myth and Meaning (15 credits)
- Greek Religion: Culture and Cognition (15 credits)
- Classical Antiquity at the Fin de Siècle: Art, Sexuality, Religion and Madness (15 credits)
- Greek Epigraphy (15 credits)
- Latin Epigraphy (15 credits)
- Tacitus and Nero (30 credits)
- Engaging Greece: Experience the past and responding to the present (30 credits)
Up to 15 credits from King’s Language Centre
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
All are subject to approval.
As a part-time student, you will take Research training in Classical Archaeology 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.
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Career Opportunities
Our graduates use our training to pursue further research in our department. Others transfer the skills and knowledge they develop with us to careers in teaching, journalism, cultural management, or the financial sector.