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Overview

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to acquire the skills needed by a historian, through the study of a choice of topics in Greek and Roman History from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD. Students are encouraged to study in depth the work of historians who shaped the Western tradition of the writing of history.

The course provides a firm foundation for further study at degree level in any of the humanities subjects, classical studies or ancient, medieval or modern history. The course is also suitable for those wishing to progress directly into employment.

Previous study of the subject is not essential. However, students are expected to have achieved grade C or above in English GCSE or equivalent.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to provide students the opportunity to acquire the historian's skills:

• By consideration of the nature and variety of historical sources and of the methods used by historians of Greece and/or Rome, ancient and modern.
• Through the acquisition of a sound knowledge and understanding of selected coherent periods and topics of Greek and/or Roman history, with due emphasis upon political, military, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, religious and technological matters.
• Through an acquaintance with different approaches to periods and topics of Ancient History and also with different solutions to particular historical problems.
• By promoting an awareness of historical concepts such as change and continuity, causation and motivation, as well as appropriate organisational and period-specific concepts (for example, imperialism, democracy, revolution), and a sensitivity to past societies whose spiritual, moral, ethical, social and cultural values and priorities contrast with those of the modern Western world.