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For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £14,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,800

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.

International student CAS deposit

Self-funded international applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2500 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. Some applicants will be required to pay a higher deposit. More information on tuition fee deposits .

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

We know that student finance can be complicated. The links below provide further information to help guide you.

• Learn more about - student finance options for UK students.
• Learn more about - fees and finance for international students .
• Graduates of The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University can receive a 10% discount on their master's degree tuition fees as part of our Manchester Alumni Loyalty Discount scheme.

This course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of Latin. Those who have studied Latin up to and including GCSE (or equivalent), however, may take it as beginners; those who have AS Level (or equivalent) in Latin should audit this course and enrol in CAHE 70182 Intensive Latin 2  for credit. Those with A-level Latin should take CAHE70111 Advanced Latin 1. 

Pre-requisite units	None but this course may not be taken for credit by candidates who have already achieved a qualification in Latin which is higher than GCSE (or equivalent).
Co-requisite units	None however students on the MA in Classics & Ancient History are expected to register in addition for CAHE70182 (Intensive Latin 2).

 

To introduce students to the basic elements of the Latin language.

• 2 x 1 hour lectures per week; 

• 2 x 1 hour seminars per week; 

• 1 dedicated consultation hour per week; 

• Blackboard: course material, handouts and other supporting materials.  

Lectures introduce new grammatical material which will then be further explained and reinforced in the highly interactive seminars. 

 

Formal written homework is set each week and individually marked. This is a crucial part of the teaching and learning process. 

 

Also on Blackboard is a self-training programme, which consists of a large bank of quizzes, graded by level, on vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. Students are expected to make extensive use of these materials, in order to help them to learn the large amount of new material that they will meet during the course. The programme gives immediate feedback, including scores, correct answers, and, in the case of more complex questions, explanations. 

By the end of this course students will have developed the following abilities:

• knowledge and understanding of the basic workings of a highly-inflected language, Classical Latin;
•  mastery of (roughly half of) the basic Latin forms and constructions (accidence and syntax), together with a vocabulary of several hundred words, and a developing ability to use them both actively and passively;
• the ability to read a simple Latin text, seen or unseen, with fluency and accuracy;
• basic familiarity with Latin epigraphy

By the end of this course students will have developed the following abilities:

•  subject-specific skills, including an incipient ability to read, understand, translate and write Latin;
• an insight into the nature of the differences between English and Classical Latin.

See specific skills listed below, plus

• an incipient ability to read simple Latin instructions

 

By the end of this course students will have:

• an increased awareness of the structures and resources of the English language;
• a developed ability to analyse and to describe linguistic forms and structures;
• an increased knowledge and understanding of Latin-derived English vocabulary.

Epigraphical commentary - 40%

Exam - 60%

 

• Weekly feedback on formative homework exercises;
• Written feedback on formative and summative assessment (see above); all feedback is designed to contribute formatively towards improvement in subsequent assignments.
• Automated feedback through online quizzes
• Additional one-to-one feedback (during the consultation hour or by making an appointment).

Perhaps the best preliminary reading would be any good introduction to English grammar, such as Bas Aarts, Oxford Modern English Grammar (2011). If you can find it (there are two copies in the library), you would benefit from Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski, English Grammar for Students of Latin: the study guide for those learning Latin. Second edition, 2000. There are also older copies of the first edition.

• 22 x one-hour lectures
• 22 x one-hour seminars
• 3 hours summative assessment
• TOTAL scheduled contact time = 47 hours

In addition, there are 11 dedicated consultation hours, together with extensively asynchronous online interaction. Detailed suggestions for the management of independent study time are given in the course handbook.