BA Ancient Civilisations (Full-time) (
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
About this course
BA Hons Ancient Civilisations, an undergraduate degree examining ancient cultures, societies and material remains. Core topics include Fieldwork. The course includes a compulsory foundation year. The first year introduces foundational themes through Exploring the Humanities and What makes civilisation?. The second year builds core knowledge with Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation alongside Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations. Optional choices across the years span languages, material culture and historical studies such as Hieroglyphs 1, Latin 1, Greek 1, Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town and Sparta: An Extraordinary City. The final year culminates in an Independent Project alongside continued study in Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation and Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations.
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Entry requirements
Alternative entry routes If this course interests you, but you don’t have the entry requirements to join our bachelor’s degree you could consider: ‘with Foundation Year’ . This route is designed to give you extra support as it provides you with an additional year (full-time) of supported study.
Modules
- Exploring the Humanities
- What makes civilisation?
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Into the Field
- Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
- Ancient Philosophy
- Death, Burial and the Afterlife
- Greek 1
- From Egypt to the Near East: phenomena of the Mediterranean
- Everyday Life in Athens and Rome
- Latin 1
- Introduction to Archaeology
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Latin 1
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Thinking With Things
- Greek 1
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- International Mobility Opportunity
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Professional Placement
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- African Modernities
- Independent Project
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Households in the ancient world
- Latin 1
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Thinking With Things
- Greek 1
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- African Modernities