Strand Campus
Strand Campus sits along the Thames at London's cultural heart. Alongside world-class teaching spaces, students enjoy access to the pedestrianised Strand Quad, with Somerset House and iconic landmarks just steps away.
Overview
This BA in Classics & the Ancient World will empower you to take the burning questions of today and apply them to some of the most celebrated and debated cultures of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
You’ll get to explore themes such as people versus elites, minority rights, sexual diversity and gender politics, empire and multiculturalism, ethnicity and race, religious identity and experience, consensus and conflict, art, philosophy, the meaning of justice, and much more.
Thanks to a curriculum built entirely with multidisciplinary optional modules, you’ll be free to follow your own interests as you study Classics within the broader context of the ancient world, whether that’s through literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, global and social issues, politics, art, culture, and beyond.
You don’t have to learn Ancient Greek and Latin during this Classics degree, but an optional accelerated language route is available. If you have previous Ancient Greek and Latin experience, you can also continue to develop this during your studies.
You’ll join the best department for Classics research in the UK (REF 2021), meaning that you’ll be taught by academics at the forefront of their respective fields. And we offer a range of exciting opportunities that include handling sessions in London museums like the British Museum, unique module coverage from the Bronze Age to modern Greece, and the possibility of travel in classical lands.
Key benefits
- Classics at King’s ranked first in the UK for research excellence (REF 2021). This research excellence feeds into our teaching on the course.
- You’ll be part of one of the largest Classics departments in the UK, offering unique coverage chronologically from the Bronze Age to Modern Greece, and geographically from Britain to Persia.
- Our course combines focus and flexibility, allowing students to pursue their interests in a department renowned for the quality of its teaching and the student experience. You can build transferable analytical and communication skills that employers from a range of sectors find highly desirable.
- You can either study ancient sources in translation or learn Ancient Greek and Latin or Hittite, with an accelerated three-year language route as an option for those without previous experience. If you already have some knowledge of Ancient Greek or Latin, you can continue your language learning at intermediate or advanced level.
- Our central London location enables collaboration with the British Museum and other cultural institutions, which are incorporated into our teaching.
- You can build your experience beyond your course with a wealth of extracurricular opportunities, including an active Classics Society, our famous Greek Play (performed every year since 1953), and the chance to promote Latin teaching in disadvantaged primary schools.
- We support students’ learning about the classical world in the classical world. Every year we take students on one of our third-year modules on an expenses-paid field trip to ancient sites in the Mediterranean. We also make substantial funding available for our students’ independent travel in classical lands.
I have three favourite things about studying Classics at Kings. 1. There are no compulsory modules so you have complete freedom to specialise in what truly interests you. 2. Learning in London is incredible, especially the proximity to amazing museums to see what you are studying in real life. 3. The range of modules.
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Special features
Optional study abroad
Key Information
UCAS code:
Q805
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full-time
Required A-Levels:
AAB
Duration:
Three years
Application status:
Start date:
September 2027
Application deadline:
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