Classics and Ancient History MA

Program Overview

Led by experts, the program emphasizes advanced research skills, fosters a collaborative learning environment, and prepares graduates for diverse career paths leveraging the skills acquired in critical thinking, analysis, and communication.

Program Outline

The program aims to:

• Provide a deep understanding of Greek and Roman culture and society through guided study and independent research.
• Develop advanced research skills and specialist methodologies for the use and analysis of a range of forms of textual and material evidence.
• Allow students to tailor their program by choosing a selection of modules to match their interests.
• Foster a friendly and lively community of students and scholars.

Outline:

The MA Classics and Ancient History is a flexible program that allows students to create their own program based on their interests and aims. The program offers a wide variety of specialist modules based on the diverse research areas of the faculty, along with optional language teaching at all levels.

Course Content:

• Modules: The program offers a wide range of specialist modules based on the diverse research areas of the faculty.
• Research Skills Training: The program includes training in specific research skills designed to help students succeed across their MA studies and beyond.
• Dissertation: In the final term, students will continue shaping, researching, and writing their dissertation, which will be an original project on a topic of their choice.

Teaching:

• Teaching Methods: The program primarily utilizes small group discussions and seminars where students present their work and participate in debates.
Other methods include seminars, student-led groups, and one-to-one supervision. Students also have the opportunity to join postgraduate reading groups and benefit from collaborative work with fellow students.
• Faculty: The program is taught by research-active staff who are at the top of their field.
• Research Culture: The University of Exeter has a strong research culture, with international conferences that students can help organize.
Students are encouraged to become part of this culture and contribute to the research strength of the department.

Careers:

• PhD: Many students choose to pursue doctoral studies, and the program provides one-to-one mentoring to help students develop research proposals and submit applications for funding.
The program develops a range of skills in logical thinking, interpreting, analyzing and evaluating information, and communication, opening doors to various career paths.
• Potential Career Destinations: Graduates from Classics and Ancient History programs have pursued careers in fields such as:
• Museum and cultural heritage work
• Teaching
• Civil Service
• Business
• Law
• Management

Other:

• Research Centers: The University of Exeter has several dynamic research centers grouped around shared themes:
• Centre for Hellenistic and Romano-Greek Culture and Society
• Centre for Connectivity in the Roman World
• Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond
• Exeter Centre for Classical Reception
• Links with Other Disciplines: The program has close links with other disciplines within the university, particularly digital humanities, archaeology, and theology.
• Research Expertise: The academic staff have a broad range of expertise and ground-breaking research interests, including:
• Ancient and modern philosophy
• Ancient political thought
• Archaeology and material culture
• Papyrology
• Classical reception
• History of sexuality and gender
• Digital Humanities
• Greek and Roman epic, tragedy, and comedy
• Greek and Roman mythology, religion, and magic
• Greek and Roman socio-economic history
• Greek literature in the Roman empire
• Hellenistic history and historiography
• Ancient medicine
• Late Antiquity and religious change
• Latin literature
• Migration, mobility, and connectivity
• Global Classics

2024/25 entry UK fees per year: £12,000 full-time; £6,000 part-time International fees per year: £24,300 full-time; £12,150 part-time