Learning & Teaching
Travel Opportunities
We offer our students many opportunities to travel, both within our curriculum and as part of the School’s extracurricular activities.
All undergraduate students have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester or a year at one of the University’s overseas and European partners. School of Classics students annually take the opportunity to study abroad at our partner departments. Students with a particular interest in the languages and cultures of the ancient world can go to the Classics Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the USA. Those with an interest in both ancient history and archaeology can go to the Department of Ancient History and Classics in Trent University in Canada. Those with a particular interest in the Roman world can go to the Department of Ancient History in the University of Bologna in Italy. Students with an interest in ancient history and art can go to the Department of History and History of Art in the University of Tarragona in Spain.
A number of our undergraduate modules, particularly for second- and third-year students, have a fieldtrip to the Mediterranean, either Italy or Greece, integrated in the module structure. Fieldtrips usually are of a week’s duration, taking place during the semester and are offered as an optional module to a number of degree schemes. In the past few years we have visited both the Naples region in Italy and Athens in Greece. Our fieldtrips aim to provide students with a first-hand experience of ancient sites and inform their research with an understanding of the geography and topography of important areas in the ancient world. The modules with an integrated fieldtrip component offer important experience in heritage studies and the impact of tourism on our understanding of the ancient world.
Fieldtrips are also part of the School’s extracurricular programme, where our students have the opportunity to visit sites related to the ancient world mainly in Wales and the west of the UK. The School also organises, in conjunction with the Classics Society, visits to museums and theatrical performances.
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