BA Ancient History & History

at University of Leicester

Year 1

In your first year you will split your studies equally between the disciplines of Ancient History and History: in Ancient History you will take core modules in which you will gain key insights into the span and names of ancient Greek and Roman history, and will critically explore the types of textual guides to these cultures. In History, the core modules will cover medieval to early modern history and approaches, while options take you through 18th to 20th century British to world history.

 

Core modules

• Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
• Introduction to Greek History
• Barbarism and Civilisation: Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• The Shock of the Modern
• Approaching Ancient Evidence (Roman)
• Introduction to Roman History

Option modules
Choose two option modules from:

• Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present
• Great Britain: The State We're In
• US History since 1877
• Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

 

Year 2

In your second year you will continue to balance your BA studies equally between the two disciplines. You will have more opportunity to shape the course of your degree this year as you will be able to choose option modules from a rich array of topics in Ancient History and History that interest you the most. In addition you will take a core module focusing on the critical assessment of sources and methods in Ancient History.

 

If you aim to write your third year dissertation on an area of History rather than Ancient History then you must take the option module ‘The Historian’s Craft’.

 

Core module

• The Roman Principate

Option modules
Choose one ancient history option module from:

 

• The Ancient Near East
• Religion in the Roman World
• Greek History in 40 Lives
• Archaeology of the Roman Empire
• Then choose one history option module from:
• Religious History
• Histories of Violence
• Global Cities

 

Then choose one history option module from:

• Americas Plural: Latin America and the United States
• Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
• Madness, Monarchy and Politics in Georgian Britain
• A World Connected: Welfare, Economy and Government since 1945
• Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
• Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Then choose two ancient history option modules from:

• Classical and Hellenistic Greek States
• Classical and Post-classical Latin
• Roman Social History and the Roman Family
• Religion in the Roman World
• Celts, Britons and Barbarians: Iron Age Europe in context
• The Medieval Mediterranean World

Plus either Becoming the Historical Researcher (you must choose this if you plan to write your third year dissertation on history)

 

Or two more history option modules: choose one option module from:

• Race and Ethnicity
• All Bourgeois Now? Class in History

And one option module from:

• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Enter the Dragon: Modern Chinese History, 1839-1989
• From Beer to Fraternity: Alcohol, Society, and Culture in North America
• History in the Classroom
• Living with Dictatorship: European Societies, 1918-1941
• Holy Wars in Sacred Lands: Conflict and Coexistence during the Crusades
• Becoming the Historical Researcher
• Heritage Field Project

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

 

Final Year (Ancient History dissertation)

Modules
Either choose five option modules from the lists below, three from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B. At least one – but no more than two – of your option modules should be in Ancient History.

 

Ancient History modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World
• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World
• Great Greek Monuments
• Early Christian Europe
• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

History modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World 
• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World
• Great Greek Monuments 
• Early Christian Europe
• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past
• The USA and the Vietnam War
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Ancient History modules list B

• Sparta and the Greek World
• Greek and Roman Art
• The Roman Labyrinth: Crete under the Emperors
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education 

History Modules list B

• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century 
• Sparta and the Greek World
• Greek and Roman Art 
• The Roman Labyrinth: Crete under the Emperors
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education
• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914
• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
• The Medieval Natural World
• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

Or choose two option modules from the lists above (at least one of which must be in ancient history) and one history special subject module from this list:

• The Holocaust: Genocide in Europe
• After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
• Beauty, Sex & Science: Whose Body is it Anyway c.1550-2015?
• A Sea of Conflict? Christian Muslim Encounters c.1100-c.1300
• The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Plus your Ancient History Dissertation

 

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

 

Final Year (History dissertation)

Modules
Choose five option modules from the lists below, three from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B. At least one – but no more than two – of your option modules should be in history.

 

Ancient History modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World
• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World
• Great Greek Monuments
• Early Christian Europe
• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

 

History modules list A

• The USA and the Vietnam War
• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
• Crime and Punishment in African American History
• Food, Diet and Health in Early Modern Europe
• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

 

Ancient History modules list B

• Sparta and the Greek World
• Greek and Roman Art
• The Roman Labyrinth: Crete under the Emperors
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education 

 

History modules list B

• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939 
• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914
• Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War
• Clothing and Fashion in Historical Perspective. Case Studies of Modern European History in Transnational Context 
• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
• The Medieval Natural World
• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

Plus your History dissertation 

 

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.