Learning & Teaching
Independent Study
The School of Classics offers a number of independent study modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Independent study modules give students the opportunity not only to research a subject of their own interest but also to hone important skills that make them more employable.
Second-year undergraduate students have the opportunity to do an independent research project under close supervision. This module prepares students for the dissertation in their third-year of study.
Third-year undergraduate students have the opportunity to do a dissertation under supervision on a subject conceived and proposed by themselves.
Postgraduates studying for an MA are required to do a Dissertation that comprises of one-third of their degree on an original topic.
Our students, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, enjoy the independent study modules and relish the opportunity to delve into a subject that is tailored to their individual interests.
Below are a few examples of project and dissertation titles from the last few years:
- The use of satire to attack demagogues in Old Comedy
- Ptolemaic dynasty: Dating of the rise of Ptolemies
- The Vindolanda tablets: A translation and study
- The Roman Citizenship: Exclusion, assimilation and the making of a world empire
- Pankration, boxing and wrestling in Greek warfare
- Aspects of masculinity: The concept of hero in Homeric and Virgilian Epic
- Representations of family dynamics in Athenian tragedy
- The development of hoplite armour and tactics
- Too Human? A comparative study of Hera in the Genre of Epic Poetry
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