Programme Specification for the 2018/9 academic year
BA (Hons) Classical Studies and Philosophy with Study Abroad
1. Programme Details
Programme name | BA (Hons) Classical Studies and Philosophy with Study Abroad | Programme code | UFA4CTHHPS01 |
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Study mode(s) | Full Time |
Academic year | 2018/9 |
Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
Programme start date | 09/2012 |
NQF Level | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
1. Offer an excellent Honours-level education in Classical Studies and Philosophy, which at least meets the standards set in the national Subject Benchmarks.
2. Provide a stimulating and supportive environment for students that is informed by research where deemed appropriate.
3. Offer a coherent and structured framework of study which ensures that within the time-span of the programme every student follows a balanced and complementary range of modules, whilst allowing sufficient choice to ensure that students are able to follow individual pathways of learning.
4. Promote students' understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of Greek and Roman texts and their appreciation of the contribution of individual authors and texts to an understanding of the literary genres of Greek and Roman literature.
5. Foster in students: an understanding of Greek and Roman cultures, with a focus on their literature and thought; awareness of the issues involved in studying other cultures and of the similarities and differences between ancient cultures and our own.
6. Produce graduates who are grounded in the main themes and methods of philosophy through a combination of modules, which develop a reflective understanding of some pervasive and problematic features of the world and of ourselves.
7. Provide a range of academic and personal skills, which will prepare students from varied educational backgrounds for employment or further study, which will foster mental agility, adaptability and critical enquiry, and which will enable them to deploy their knowledge, abilities and skills in their entirety, displaying balance and judgement in a variety of circumstances.
8. To allow students to experience the challenges of living and working in another setting and educational environment.
The Programme is intended to:
4. Programme Structure
The programme is studied over four years full-time. Study is undertaken in four stages. Stages 1, 2 and 4 comprise 120 credits made up of either 15 or 30-credit modules. At stage 3 (the year abroad) students will normally complete the 120-credit Study Abroad module or another approved programme of study. Each stage normally occupies an academic year, so that it takes 4 years to accumulate the 480 credits required for a final award. The first two years and the final year are University based. Part-time study over a longer period is possible by negotiation with the College. Each stage of the degree is made up of modules, and each module studied successfully contributes 15 or 30 credits towards the degree. The credit-rating of a module is proportional to the total workload and one credit is nominally equivalent to 10 hours of work. The 'level' of a module (designated by the first number in the module code) indicates its position in the progressive development of academic abilities and/or practical skills. The degree programme contains compulsory and optional modules and as part of the degree programme students may take up to 30 credits a year outside their main degree subject.
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme. Details of the modules currently offered may be obtained from the College web site
www.intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/taught/modules.php
www.intranet.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/moduledescriptions/
In each year, other than the year abroad, students will normally take modules worth 60 credits in Classical Studies and 60 credits in Philosophy.
Modules and other study components can be taken only with the approval of the Department (normally given by the student’s personal tutor). Modules are not all available every year; options are offered each year at the discretion of the College. A module may be taken only if the necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, if the timetable allows, and if the module or an equivalent module has not been taken previously.
If students wish to undertake their study abroad in a University which does not teach in English, they must normally take 30 credits from the Foreign Language Centre at stages 1 and 2 in the appropriate language. In doing this they would be deemed to have exercised their rights under the University’s modularity provisions.
The University’s rules on modularity include a provision that students may take up to 30 credits a year outside their degree programme, but counting towards it. However, the normal expectation on this programme is that students will take 60 credits in each subject, in order to gain sufficient philosophical skills and expertise and sufficient knowledge of the ancient world to complete the programme effectively. The level 3 programme in Philosophy already allows students to choose a 30-credit option from a range of philosophical subjects offered by other disciplines. Any student wishing to take an option of up to 30 credits outside the programme should seek permission from the Director of Education (Classical Studies) or the Director of the Philosophy Programme.
Across Stages 1 and 2 students must take at least 90 credits in each of the programmes Classical Studies and English in order to gain a sufficient understanding of both disciplines.
Assessment at Stage 1 is formative and does not contribute towards the overall mark for the degree programme, although an overall pass is necessary for progression to Stage 2.
Stage 1
Compulsory Modules
Classical Studies: CLA1005 or CLA1006. Please note, modules CLA1005 and CLA1006 run in alternate years. Students will take whichever module is running.
Philosophy: 3 of the 4 core modules must be chosen
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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CLA1005 | Greek and Roman Narrative | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
You will select 30 credits of Classical Studies Level 1 optional modules, available to view here: http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
You will select 15 credits of Philosophy Level 1 optional modules.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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CLA S1 BA Optional Modules 2018/9 (For Classical Studies Programme) | |||
Classics and Ancient History Stage One Optional Modules 2018/9 (For Classical Studies Programme) |
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CLA1002 | Roman History: Problems and Sources | 30 | No |
CLA1301 | Ancient Sources (Written Evidence) - Tyranny | 15 | No |
CLA1303 | Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Roman Historical Writing | 15 | No |
CLA1515 | Ancient Sources: Roman Death | 15 | No |
CLA1357 | Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Globalisation and Identity in the Western Roman Empire | 15 | No |
CLA1358 | Ancient Sources Material Evidence: Building Communities in Archaic Greece | 15 | No |
CLA1512 | Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Images of the Trojan War: from Pot to Film | 15 | No |
CLA1408 | Text and Context: Suetonius and Imperial Power | 15 | No |
CLA1406 | Text and Context: Roman Love Elegy | 15 | No |
CLA1272 | Text and Context: Persuasion in Ancient Greece | 15 | No |
CLA1508 | Ancient World: Roman Philosophy | 15 | No |
CLA1510 | Ancient World: Roman Religion | 15 | No |
Philosophy Stage 1 modules 2018-9 | |||
PHL1003 | Philosophical Readings 5 | 15 | No |
PHL1004 | Philosophical Problems 1 | 15 | No |
PHL1009 | Philosophies of Art | 15 | No |
PHL1013 | Philosophy of Morality | 15 | No |
PHL1007 | Philosophical Reading 1 | 15 | No |
PHL1008 | Philosophical Reading 2 | 15 | No |
PHL1002A | Knowledge and Reality 1 | 15 | No |
PHL1002B | Knowledge and Reality 2 | 15 | No |
PHL1005A | Evidence and Argument 1 | 15 | No |
PHL1006 | Introduction to Philosophical Analysis | 15 | No |
Total Credits for Stage 1 | 120 |
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Stage 2
Classical Studies: modules CLA2005 and CLA2006 run in alternate years. Students will take whichever module is running.
Philosophy: 3 of the 6 core modules must be chosen
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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CLA2005 | Greek and Roman Narrative | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
You will select 30 credits of Classical Studies Level 2 optional modules, available to view here: http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
For Philosophy select 60 credits of available level Philosophy options, at least 45 of which must be level 2 and the remaining 15 credits can be level 2 or 3.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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CLA S2 BA Optional Modules 2018/9 (For Classical Studies Programme) | |||
Classics and Ancient History Stage Two Optional Modules 2018/9 (For Classical Studies Programme) |
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CLA2002 | Roman History: Problems and Sources | 30 | No |
CLA2301 | Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Tyranny | 15 | No |
CLA2303 | Ancient Sources (Written Evidence): Roman Historical Writing | 15 | No |
CLA2515 | Ancient Sources: Roman Death | 15 | No |
CLA2357 | Ancient Sources (Material Evidence): Globalisation and Identity in the Western Roman Empire | 15 | No |
CLA2358 | Ancient Sources Material Evidence: Building Communities in Archaic Greece | 15 | No |
CLA2512 | Images of Trojan War: from Pot to Film (Material Evidence) | 15 | No |
CLA2408 | Text and Context: Suetonius and Imperial Power | 15 | No |
CLA2406 | Text and Context: Roman Love Elegy | 15 | No |
CLA2272 | Text and Context: Persuasion in Ancient Greece | 15 | No |
CLA2508 | Ancient World: Roman Philosophy | 15 | No |
CLA2510 | Ancient World: Roman Religion | 15 | No |
Total Credits for Stage 2 | 120 |
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Stage 3
Compulsory Modules
Students spend this year in a European University on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange or other approved programme of study (normally the study abroad module HPS3999).
The year abroad comprises 120 credits. Assessment is normally based on the ECTS credits gained at the partner institution abroad.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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HPS3999 | Year Abroad Year Abroad | 120 | No |
Total Credits for Stage 3 | 120 |
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Stage 4
Compulsory Modules
You must take 60 credits in each subject, which must include a dissertation in either Classical Studies or Philosophy.
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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PHL3040 | Philosophy Dissertation OR | 30 | No |
CLA3009 | Dissertation | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
If you have chosen to take the Classical Studies dissertation, you will select 30 credits of Classical Studies options and 60 credits of Philosophy options. If you have chosen to take the Philosophy dissertation, you will select 30 credits of Philosophy options and 60 credits of Classical Studies options.
Classical Studies Level 3 optional modules are available to view here: http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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CLA SF BA Optional Modules 2018/9 (For All Programmes) | |||
Classics and Ancient History Stage Three Optional Modules 2018/9 (For All Programmes) |
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CLA3007 | The Crisis of the Athenian Polis | 30 | No |
CLA3008 | The Age of Cicero | 30 | No |
CLA3032 | Translation and Criticism | 30 | No |
CLA3042 | Ancient Literary Criticism | 30 | No |
CLA3054 | Domination and Resistance in Roman Britain | 30 | No |
CLA3056 | Ovid and the Erotic Passions | 15 | No |
CLA3108 | The World of Late Antiquity | 30 | No |
CLA3112 | Medicine in Antiquity | 15 | No |
CLA3113 | Art in Greek Society | 15 | No |
CLA3114 | Art in Roman Society | 15 | No |
CLA3118 | The World(s) of Didactic Poetry | 30 | No |
CLA3255 | Greek Political Thought | 15 | No |
CLA3256 | Impact of Greek Culture | 15 | No |
CLA3257 | Living in the Roman World: Society and Culture | 30 | No |
CLA3258 | The Reception of Greek Culture | 15 | No |
CLA3259 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 15 | No |
CLA3260 | Tales of the Unexpected: Paradoxography, Fiction and the Culture of Wonder | 15 | No |
CLA3263 | Being and Not-Being in Greek Philosophy: from Parmenides to Aristotle | 15 | No |
CLA3267 | Dialogues with the Past: Creative Interpretative Project | 15 | No |
CLA3268 | Ancient Journeys and Migrants | 30 | No |
CLA3273 | Polybios and the Challenge of Change | 15 | No |
CLA3274 | The Persians in a Near Eastern Context | 30 | No |
CLA3009 | Dissertation | 30 | No |
CLA SF BA Classical Language and Texts 2018-9 | |||
Classics and Ancient History level 3 language options 2018/9 |
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CLA3204 | Classical Language and Texts: Greek III | 30 | No |
CLA3205 | Classical Language and Texts: Greek IV | 30 | No |
CLA3206 | Classical Language and Texts: Latin IV | 30 | No |
CLA3251 | Classical Language and Texts: Latin V: Epic | 30 | No |
CLA3254 | Classical Language and Texts: Latin III | 30 | No |
CLA3270 | Classical Language and Texts: Greek V: Epic | 30 | No |
Total Credits for Stage 4 | 120 |
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6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. CLASSICAL STUDIES: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of major literary works of Greece and Rome, read critically individual works within a specific genre and demonstrate an awareness of the way texts reflect changes in ancient society and perceptions. (3.2 A1) | 1 - 4 form the basis of the Classical Studies programme at all levels. However, more sophisticated analysis and understanding is expected at level 3. These skills are developed at levels 1 and 2 by means of lectures, discussion in seminars, researching and writing essays, gobbet answers and oral presentations. At level 3 these skills are developed in relation to particular topics and periods through specialised modules and through an optional dissertation. These skills are also reinforced at level 3 by placing greater emphasis on seminars (2 hour classes), on oral presentations (often summatively assessed), and essay writing (longer essays are expected at level 3). | The assessment of skills 1 - 4 is made through a combination of examinations (including essays and gobbet passages for comment); course essays and oral presentations. |
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
13. Analyse critically individual texts and combine those analyses to demonstrate understanding of the development of literary genres (Phil. 23.3, 23.4). | Skills 13-20 are developed throughout the Classical Studies degree programme by means of lectures, discussion in seminars and study-groups, the preparation and delivery of oral presentations in seminars and the writing of essays. At levels 2 and 3 students are expected to prepare longer and more sophisticated seminar presentations, and, at level 3, to write longer essays in order further to develop these skills. Also at level 3 seminars are normally 2 hours in length and form the primary teaching and learning medium, with a focus on developing, in the context of their particular subjects, the more complex analytical skills listed (16-20). | The assessment of skills 13 – 19 is made in Classical Studies through a combination of examinations (including essays and gobbet passages for comment); term-time essays and, in many level 3 modules, the assessment of oral presentations. |
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
28. Select, organise and analyse material for written work and oral presentations of different prescribed lengths. (Phil. 23.2) | (a) Skills 28, 29, 31 and 32 are developed through the preparation and delivery of oral presentations in most modules at all levels in both sides of the programme, and through the oral discussion of challenging material in all modules in the programme. | (a) Skills 28, 29, 31 and 32 are assessed through the summative assessment of oral presentations at level 3 (10 or 20%) (in Classical Studies) This assessment may also include a formative peer evaluation element. |
7. Programme Regulations
University Regulations on the number of credits to be taken and at what level for each stage of the programme can be found in the Credit and Qualifications Framework.
Progression
Condonement is the process that allows you to be awarded credit (and so progress to the next stage or, in the final stage, receive an award), despite failing to achieve a pass mark at a first attempt. You are not entitled to reassessment in condoned credit. Regulations on condonement can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
Assessment and Awards
For undergraduate degrees assessment at stage one does not contribute to the summative classification of the award. Details of the weightings for each year of all programme lengths can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes and the classification of awards can be found in the Handbook for Assessment, Progression and Awarding for Taught Programmes.
You can also read details of Generic Marking Criteria.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
Personal and Academic Tutoring
It is University policy that all Colleges should have in place a system of academic and personal tutors. The role of academic tutors is to support you with individual modules; the role of personal tutors is to provide you with advice and support fo the duration of your programme, and this support extends to providing you with details of how to obtain support and guidance on personal difficulties such as accommodation, financial difficulties and sickness. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
Information on the College Personal Tutoring system, library provision, ELE resources and access to College support services can be found on the College webpages for current students.
Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC)
SSLCs enable students and staff to jointly participate in the management and review of the teaching and learning provision.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Learning Resources
The University Library maintains its principal collections in the main library buildings on the Streatham and St Luke's campuses, together with a number of specialist collections in certain Colleges. The total Library collection comprises over a million volumes and 3000 current periodical subscriptions.
IT Services
A wide range of IT services are provided throughout the Exeter campuses, including open-access computer rooms, some of which are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Helpdesks are maintained on the Streatham and St Luke's campuses, while most study bedrooms in halls and flats are linked to the University's campus network.
Student Support Services
The University provides many support services including health and wellbeing, multifaith chaplaincy, family support, the Students' Guild and international student support.
10. Admissions Criteria
All applications are considered individually on merit. The University is committed to an equal opportunities policy with respect to gender, age, race, sexual orientation and/or disability when dealing with applications. It is also committed to widening access to higher education to students from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience.
Candidates for undergraduate programmes must satisfy the undergraduate admissions requirements of the University of Exeter.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
Certain programmes are subject to accreditation and/or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
The University and its constituent Colleges draw on a range of data to review the quality of education provision. The College documents the performance in each of its tuaght programmes, against a range of criteria on an annual basis through the Annual Student Experience Review (ASER).
Subject areas are reviewed every five years through a College Academic Audit scheme that includes external contributions.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Humanities (CHUM)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
College of Social Sciences and International Studies (CSSIS)Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
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18. Final Award
BA (Hons) Classical Studies and Philosophy with Study Abroad
19. UCAS Code
QV8M
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] Classics and ancient history (including Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek)
[Honours] Philosophy
23. Dates
Origin Date | 01/09/2011 |
Date of last revision |
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