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Satisfied Students in the Department of Classics: NSS 2020

Department of Classics records 95% overall satisfaction from students in the National Student Survey 2020.

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Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

This year's graduates have risen to the challenges of an extremely difficult year to complete their degrees.

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Two College Excellence Teaching Prizes for the Department of Classics

College awards for outstanding teaching for Dr Erica Rowan and Peter Olive.

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Lecturer in Roman Art and Archaeology

Dr Zena Kamash

“I bring in my own objects from my excavations and share them with my students”
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Top for career prospects

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3rd for teaching quality

Source: Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019

100% say staff have made the subject interesting

Source: National Student Survey 2019

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Classics and Philosophy

3 years full time

BA QV85

Classics
Classical Studies and Philosophy

3 years full time

BA QV8M

Classics
Classical Studies and Drama

3 years full time

BA QW84

Classics
Classical Studies and Comparative Literature and Culture

3 years full time

BA Q8Q2

Classics
Ancient History and Philosophy

3 years full time

BA VV15

Classics
Ancient and Medieval History

3 years full time

BA VV19

Classics
Classics with Philosophy

3 years full time

BA Q8V5

Classics
Classical Studies with Philosophy

3 years full time

BA Q9V5

Classics
Ancient History with Philosophy

3 years full time

BA V1V5

Classics
Latin

3 years full time

BA Q600

Classics
Greek

3 years full time

BA Q700

Classics
Classics

3 years full time

BA Q800

Classics
Classical Studies

3 years full time

BA Q810

Classics
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

3 years full time

BA VV41

Classics
Ancient History

3 years full time

BA V110

Classics
BA Classical Studies with Integrated Foundation Year

4 years full time

Q81F

Classics
English and Classical Studies

3 years full time

BA QQ38

English
English and Latin

3 years full time

BA QQ36

English
Modern Languages and Classical Studies

4 years full time

BA RQ98

Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Modern Languages and Greek

4 years full time

BA RQ97

Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Modern Languages and Latin

4 years full time

BA RQ96

Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Ancient History

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Classical Art and Archaeology

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Classical Reception

1 year full time

MRes

Classics
Classics

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Rhetoric

1 year full time

MRes

Classics
Classics PhD

4 years full time

PhD

Classics
Ancient History

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Classical Art and Archaeology

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Classical Reception

1 year full time

MRes

Classics
Classics

1 year full time

MA

Classics
Rhetoric

1 year full time

MRes

Classics
Classics PhD

4 years full time

PhD

Classics

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    Resources for students, teachers and anyone interested in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans.