- UCAS course code
- Q6R1
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
BA Latin and French
Duration: 4 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: Q6R1 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Study abroad
Study with a language
- Typical A-level offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: BBC including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: BBC including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 34 points overall with 6,5,5 at HL including specific subjects
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £26,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Policy on additional costs
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).
Scholarships/sponsorships
- Find out more from student finance
- Eligible UK students can apply for bursaries and scholarships
- Funding for EU and international students is on our country-specific pages
- Many students work part-time or complete a student internship
Course unit details:
Greek Tragedy
| Unit code | CAHE21012 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 2 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
The dramas of 5th Century Athens can be deceptively familiar, known to us as the basis of western theatre and often studied as A-Level texts. This module will show that tragedy is a far more problematic and complicated genre than we might realize. It challenges us to consider what it is to be human, and how we understand the nature of reality. Passages of great lyric beauty and philosophical reflection are combined with an unflinching portrayal of the darkest aspects of life and death. The dramas can appear both as strikingly modern and yet terrifyingly alien. Plays by each of the three great tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) are studied, and we will consider contemporary views as seen in the works of Aristotle and Aristophanes. Students will also be introduced to a range of modern methodological approaches to tragedy, which may include some of the following: Structuralism and Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic approaches, Modernism and Postmodernism, Feminist Literary Criticism and Gender Theory, Narratology, Distributed Cognition, Performance Theory, Emotions, and New Materialisms.
Pre/co-requisites
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Anti-requisties: CAHE 31011.
Aims
To provide students with a detailed and wide-ranging understanding of ancient theatre as a manifestation of 5th Century Athenian culture.
To provide students with a detailed and wide-ranging understanding of ancient theatre as a foundation for western drama and a part of the modern theatrical scene.
Knowledge and understanding
A good understanding of the contexts of ancient drama.
A good understanding of the issues involved in the study of ancient drama.
Intellectual skills
Analysing complex literary texts with a range of techniques.
Use of appropriate terminology.
Practical skills
Ability to access relevant primary and secondary material.
Transferable skills and personal qualities
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- construct an argument in written and oral form;
- assimilate and summarise large quantities of evidence;
- present the results in a professional manner with appropriate reference to sources and modern published scholarship;
- use e-resources and gain knowledge of research methods and resources;
- manage time and resources.
Employability skills
- Other
- The course involves a large number of important employment skills, most notably an ability to analyse and examine a large amount of often difficult information, an ability to see both sides of an argument, the ability to synthesise an argument in a cogent form, the ability to retrieve information from complex sources and present it in a compelling and cogent fashion.
Assessment methods
Assessment task | Formative or Summative | Weighting within unit (if summative) |
Commentary (1) | Formative |
|
Commentary (2) | Summative | 40% |
Exam | Summative | 60% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative |
Commentary 1 | Detailed formative |
Commentary 2, Exam | Summative and formative |
One-to-one feedback in consulation hours | Formative |
Recommended reading
Plays will be chosen from the set text, which all students must buy:
Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, M. Lefkowitz & J. Romm, Ballantine Books (2nd ed. 2017), ISBN: 978-0812983098.
Secondary reading:
- CSAPO, E., & SLATER, W., The Context of Ancient Drama (Michigan 1994) ¿
- DUNN, F., Tragedy’s End (New York 1996) ¿
- DOBROV, G., Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics (Oxford 2001) ¿
- EASTERLING, P., The Cambridge Companion To Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1997) ¿
- GOLDHILL, S. & OSBORNE, R. (edd.), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy ( Cambridge 1999)
- GRIFFITHS, E. M., Euripides: Heracles (London, 2006) ¿
- GRIFFITHS, E. M., Euripidean letters and Thucydides’ Athens, Politics of Orality (C. Cooper ed., Leiden, 2007) ¿
- MOST, G.,
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 22 |
| Seminars | 11 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 167 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Manolis Tsakiris | Unit coordinator |