BA in Ancient History and History

at University of Reading

Year 1

Compulsory modules include:

• Greek History: war, society, and change in the Archaic Age
• Roman History: the rise and fall of the Republic
• Journeys through History 1:Power and People
• Journeys through History 2: Culture and Concepts'
• Research Skills and Opportunities in History

Year 2

Optional Module

• Ancient Epic
• Ancient World on Film
• Ancient Greek Warfare
• Academic Work Placement
• Greek History: Persian Wars to Alexander
• Ancient Drama
• Egypt and the Greco-Roman World
• Ancient Greek 2 (I)
• Ancient Greek 3 (I)
• Latin 2 (I)
• Latin 3 (I)
• Literature and Society in Late Antiquity
• Prospects for Classicists and Ancient Historians
• Rome's Mediterranean Empire; A World of Cities
• Roman History: From Republic to Empire
• My Mother's Sin and other Stories
• Going Public: Presenting the Past, Planning the Future
• Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
• Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879 to 1980
• Belief and Unbelief in Europe: Religion, Science and the Supernatural c.1400-1800
• Rebel Girls: The Influence of Radical Women 1792-1919
• ‘The brightest jewel in the British crown’: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
• Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Utopia: the Quest for a Perfect World
• People, power and revolution: political culture in seventeenth-century England
• The American Civil War
• Race’, Ethnicity and Citizenship in America
• American Century: United States history since 1898
• Medieval Medicine
• Encountering the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
• Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-war Britain
• Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154–1330
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Medieval Europe: power, religion and death
• Development of transferable skills through a school placement 1
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• Museum Learning and Engagement
• Founder Dilemmas

Year 3

Optional Module

• Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. The Context for the Trojan War
• Ancient Biography
• Greek & Roman Painting
• British School at Rome Undergraduate Summer School
• Dissertation in Classics
• Preparation for Dissertation in Classics
• Ancient Greek 4 (H)
• Ancient Greek 5 (H)
• Independent Third Year Project
• Latin 3 (I)
• Latin 4 (H)
• Latin 5 (H)
• Late Antique Egypt
• Modern Tragedy
• Crisis, Change, Opportunity: Italy from 1968 to the Present
• Discovering Archives and Collections
• History Education
• Dissertation in History
• Sexual Politics: Gender, Sex, and Feminism in Britain after 1918
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Empire, Slavery, and Society, 1550-1750
• Melancholy Medicine: Healing the Body and Mind in Early Modern England, 1570-1730
• Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
• The Romantic Revolution: Culture, Environment and Society in England, c.1790-c.1900
• Africa from European Settlement to Nelson Mandela
• Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain 1800-2016
• Politics and Popular Culture: Post-Arab Spring Egypt
• Policing the United States
• The Anthropology of Heritage and Cultural Property
• The Archaeology of Crusading
• Archaeology of the City of Rome

Typical offer

BBB, including grade B in A level History, Ancient History, or Classical Civilisation.

International Baccalaureate

30 points overall including 5 in History at higher level

Extended Project Qualification

In recognition of the excellent preparation that the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provides to students for University study, we can now include achievement in the EPQ as part of a formal offer.

BTEC Extended Diploma

DDM (Modules taken must be comparable to subject specific requirement)

English language requirements

IELTS 7.0, with no component below 6.0

New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250

New international students: £19,500

This combination of subjects will provide you with a range of transferable skills. Historians have to analyse a wide variety of sources to produce reasoned conclusions, and this helps develop clear thinking, written and oral communication skills, time management, adaptability, independence, and the ability to understand different cultures.

Additionally, if you choose to study abroad you will develop further desirable skills such as independence, knowledge of different cultures, international communication skills and adaptability.

Our previous graduates have gone on to a wide variety of careers, including work in accountancy and banking, the government and the civil service, law, heritage and museums, teaching, publishing, public sector management, libraries and archives, and media research and production. Past employers include GCHQ, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the University of Oxford, the British Museum, the NHS, the Environment Agency and Sotheby's.

Alternatively, you can choose to further develop your research skills by moving on to postgraduate studies.