Newcastle University

Ancient History and Archaeology BA Honours
UCAS Code: VV14 (3 Years)

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Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• ARA1027 Introduction to Archaeology
• ARA1030 Archaeology of Britain from the Romans to the 20th Century
• CAC1012 Classical Art from Greek to Roman
• CAH1012 West Meets East: Greek History and Society 776-404BC
• CAH1013 Road to Empire: Roman History 510-31 BC

Optional modules 

You choose one optional module. We recommend the following choice:

• ARA1028 Prehistoric Britain
• CAC1013 Love and Life in Rome and Verona
• CAC1015 How Should I Live?: An Introduction to Ancient Moral Philosophy
• CAH1001 Case Studies in Ancient History 1: the Ancient Economy
• CAG1001 Beginners’ Greek in Action 1
• CLA1001 Beginners’ Latin in Action 1
• SOC1027 Comparing Cultures

Other optional modules may also be available.

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• ARA2012 Fieldwork and Archaeological Practice
• ARA2091 Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian
• CAH2006  In Alexander’s Footsteps: Greeks and Macedonians 400-200 BC
• CAH2007 Caesar’s Gift: Rome under the Emperors

Optional modules 

You select one module from either Archaeology (Pathway A) or Ancient History (Pathway AH):

Pathway A

• ARA2001 Archaeological Theory and Interpretation
• ARA2011 Later European Prehistory
• ARA2101 Artefacts
• ARA2098 Understanding Historic Landscapes

Pathway AH

• CAH2012 Roman Egypt

You take a further module which may be selected from either of these Pathways, or one of the following recommendations:

• CAC2045 Human Dissection in Antiquity
• CAC2059 Between Men and the Gods: Religion in the Classical World

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

You choose one of the following modules:

• ARA3001 Dissertation in Archaeology
• ARA3002 Dissertation in Ancient History and Archaeology

Optional modules 

You choose one module from Archaeology (Pathway A); one from Ancient History (Pathway AH); plus one or two further modules from either Pathway:

Pathway A

• ARA3021 Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
• ARA3022 Themes in European Prehistory (Cosmology, Bodies, Persons and Art)
• ARA3025 Social Prehistory of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
• ARA3013 Early Medieval Britain
• ARA3016 Byzantium and its Neighbours
• ARA3100 Later Mediterranean Prehistory
• ARA3114 Regionality and the Fall of Rome

Pathway AH

• CAH3005 City of Athens: Power, Society and Culture
• CAH3009 The Emperor and the Empire
• CAH3025 Celluloid History 2
• CAH3030 The Jews in the Greek and Roman World
• CAH3033 The Fall of the Roman Republic
• CAH3034 New Module in Ancient History (title tbc)

If only three modules are taken from the Pathways above, you will take a further optional module to bring your total to 120 credits. We recommend the following, though other optional modules may also be available:

• CAC3051 The Ancient Art of Spin: Classical Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
• CAC3054 Epic Journeys: The Odyssey and Homeric Epic
• CAC3058 Ancient Science in Ten Problems
• NCL3007 Career Development for Final-Year Students