Learning & Teaching
Excellence and Innovation
The School of Classics stands at the forefront of innovative teaching in Higher Education, offering our students an excellent learning experience, both residentially and at a distance. Our innovative teaching methods have been presented in international conferences, such as the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference 2009 and the Employability: Beyond the Bolt-on? conference 2010 and are the product of the latest research into Higher Education Teaching.
All our undergraduate lectures are available as podcasts via our Virtual Learning Environment. This means that all our students have the opportunity to revisit a lecture whenever they want, whether for revision purposes or for re-examining a specific subject. The lectures in a number of our modules are visually recorded and are available to all our students. A number of our language modules offer students the opportunity to revisit crucial information via podcasts.
In several undergraduate modules, particularly for second- and third-year students, there is the opportunity to work with the material in the Roderick Bowen Library and Archives. Final-year students organise conferences and exhibitions as part of their work on individual modules. For example, in the summer of 2011 our finalists organised an exhibition of exempla of the visual reception of the City of Rome in early modern literature. Explore the Monuments of Ancient Rome online exhibition here.
From 2011/12, our students will have the opportunity to access, study and work with video-material from a variety of ancient sites from Italy and Greece as part of our Video-Enhanced Learning Project. The aim of the Video-Enhanced Learning Project is to provide our students with virtual access to ancient sites that are particularly important to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity and material culture.
Our students at postgraduate level studying at a distance have access to teaching material for several modules via podcasts and videos.
Visit the Monuments of Ancient Rome Graduate Exhibition
Learn more about Distance Learning for Postgraduate students
