BA (Hons) Museum and Classical Studies Bachelor's degree at the University of Reading

Develop the knowledge and skills required to succeed in academic study of the ancient world including the literature, writing and numeral systems of ancient Greece and Rome.

Track the upheavals, innovations and conflicts across ancient Greece and beyond. Using evidence, you'll reconstruct the events and practices that are subject to ongoing debate.

Understand the value of material culture for our study of antiquity. You will learn how museums encourage audiences to engage with the ancient world through their collections.

Explore the past, present and future of museums in a global context. You'll examine the origins of museums, collecting histories, and the role of audiences in curation, as well as the central ethical debates around social justice, repatriation, decolonisation and inclusivity.

Discover a range of lyric poetry from ancient Greece and Rome and consider a range of thematic approaches to reading the surviving texts.

Investigate a period marked by profound socio-political changes in Rome and discover the evidence for ancient history and modern methodological approaches, considering the relevance of Roman antiquity to issues in the modern world.

You'll be taught elements of the Latin language, literature and culture to enable you to read the language at an elementary level.

Learn elements of the Ancient Greek language, literature and culture, enabling you to read the language at an elementary level.

Learn the archaeological methods and theories employed in the scientific study of the dead, both from the modern forensic and older archaeological contexts. Gain insight into how humans have buried their dead over the time, analyse skeletal remains, and conduct fieldwork in a cemetery survey.

Examine the role of museums in society by observing and evaluating museum learning resources and events. With input from museum-based professionals, you'll explore learning theory, programme and event management, resource design, evaluation and visitor research. Interactive lectures, seminars and museum visits will enable you to contextualise and apply your learning.

Discuss interpretations of Greek and Latin epic hexameter poetry such as the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid.

Discover the Greek classical age (479-323 BC), how to interact with sources, and principles and methods central to the study of ancient history.

Gain knowledge of sculpture and architecture in the Greek world, from its beginnings to the end of the Hellenistic period and consider how, why, where and when these media developed.

Discover Greek poetry and fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You'll consider historical, sociocultural, and wider literary developments of the period and how they illustrate attitudes to the ancient past.

Further your knowledge of the grammar, and vocabulary of Latin to increase your confidence when reading authors in the original Latin.

Develop your skills to become competent reading ancient Greek authors and further your knowledge of grammar, and vocabulary of the language.

Discover ancient drama by examining their performance style and uncovering the context in which they were produced.

Gain knowledge of the historical, political, social, and economic developments of the imperial era of Rome, using various sources to investigate the impact of the Roman world on the present day.

Explore the methods used by museum professionals to store, catalogue, research and display objects, and how they communicate their meaning to the general public. Gain a hands-on introduction to curatorship and collections management, with the opportunity to research and interpret an object chosen from the University's collections.

Examine different types of Roman entertainment – from top-down spectacles in the circus and amphitheatre to bottom-up, DIY activities like board games – and explore their deeper social, political and economic connotations. You'll examine how we can use different kinds of evidence (textual, iconographic, material) to learn about leisure in the past.

Gain knowledge and understanding of the key aspects of ancient Greek religion, along with the ancient evidence and salient scholarly approaches.

Learn elements of the Ancient Egyptian language and gain the skills to read Egyptian, in the hieroglyphic script, at an elementary level.

Gain an understanding of the archaeological evidence for the Roman presence in Northern Europe in the period 300 BC to AD 300, and its relation to the documentary evidence. You'll explore the major social, cultural and economic changes of the region during this period.