2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Classical Literature and Philosophy

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Classics and Ancient History (including Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek)
Philosophy

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/24 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Classical Literature and Philosophy(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Classical Literature gives you the chance to explore some of the most important texts in world literature, and how they have been received in other cultures. You’ll combine core and optional modules to appreciate works by writers such as Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Apuleius, Plato and Ovid, all read in English translation, offering a window into Ancient Greek and Roman culture and history. You'll explore poetry, prose, comedy, and tragedy plays in the ancient theatre and discover how later writers from the ancient world to the present day have been inspired by the classics. You can also choose to study Ancient Greek and Latin in every year of the degree.
With philosophy at Leeds, you can explore fundamental questions about how we understand the world: what’s the difference between belief and knowledge? Why are we here? How do we know what we know – and can we ever know anything at all? Through core and optional modules you’ll learn how to construct arguments and study key topics such as ethics and logic, as well as specialist knowledge in topics from ancient and moral philosophy to the ethics of life and death, philosophy of language or aesthetics.
Throughout the course, you will develop valuable interpretative and analytical skills, as well as becoming a confident researcher. You will demonstrate these qualities in when you undertake a Final Year Project on a topic of your choice in either Philosophy or Classical Literature.
Students on this programme may apply for transfer to an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement (Industrial Degree) is also available. Classics at Leeds has exchange links with Verona University (Italy) and modern language classes are available before you go to prepare you for the experience. There are also opportunities at our partner universities across the world where courses are taught in English.
At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree programme. Alongside the capstone projects, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules:

The remaining credits may be taken either as Discovery credits, or as choices from the optional modules listed below, or as a combination of both.

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates may study the following optional module:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects. Of the remaining credits, 20 credits should be taken in one of the named subjects; the final 20 credits may be taken as discovery modules or in either of the named subjects.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following core modules:

Candidates may also choose further modules from among the following:

NB. Not all modules will run in every year.

Students will be required to study at least 40 credits and may study up to 60 credits from the following optional modules:

Students may also choose to study the below module as long as they are not already enrolled onto Linguists into Schools

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject, pursue additional modules in the two named subjects or take the above FOAH module

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

At Level 3, students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in Classical Literature and a minimum of 40 credits in Philosophy.  Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. 
All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project (FYP) module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects (EITHER Classical Literature OR Philosophy. 
 
In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at Level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at Level 3). 

Optional modules:

All students are required to study one of the following Final Year Project (FYP)

Students who take their FYP in Philosophy are required to take a minimum of 40 credits from the following list of optional modules:

Students who take their FYP in Classical Literature may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules.

NB. Not all modules will run in every year.

Students who take their FYP in Classical Literature are required to take a minimum of 40 credits from the following list of optional modules:

Students who take their FYP in Philosophy may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules.

Discovery modules:

All students may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in Philosophy or Classical Literature. Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.  

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