Year 1

In your first year you will split your studies equally between ancient history and history, taking core modules in Greek and Roman history and choosing from history modules covering medieval, early modern and global history.

Core modules

• Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
• Approaching Ancient Evidence (Roman)
• Barbarism and Civilisation: Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• Introduction to Greek History
• Introduction to Roman History
• The Shock of the Modern

Option modules

Choose two option modules from:

• Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present
• Great Britain: The State We're In
• US History since 1877
• Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

In your second year you will continue to balance your studies equally between the two subjects. You will have more opportunity to shape the course of your degree this year as you will be able to choose option modules from the areas of ancient history and history that interest you the most. You will also take a core module focusing on sources and methods in ancient history.

If you would like to write your third year dissertation on an area of History rather than Ancient History then you must take the option module The Historian’s Craft.

Core module

• Sources, Method, and Theory for Ancient History

Option modules

Choose one ancient history option module from:

• Greek History in 40 Lives
• The Ancient Near East
• The Roman Principate
• Archaeology of the Roman Empire

Then choose one history option module from:

• Religious History
• Histories of Violence
• All Bourgeois Now? Class in History

Then choose one history option module from:

• Americas Plural: Latin America and the United States
• Madness, Monarchy and Politics in Georgian Britain
• Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
• Modern Ireland, 1939-1975
• Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
• Enter the Dragon: Modern Chinese History, 1839-1989
• Living with Dictatorship: European Societies, 1918-1941

Then choose two ancient history option modules from:

• Classical and Hellenistic Greek States
• Classical and Post-classical Latin
• Roman Social History and the Roman Family
• Roman Religion
• Celts, Britons and Barbarians: Iron Age Europe in context
• The Medieval Mediterranean World

Plus either Becoming the Historical Researcher (you must choose this if you plan to write your third year dissertation on history)

Or two more history option modules: choose one option module from:

• Race and Ethnicity
• Global Cities

And one option module from:

• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
• Imperialism and Decolonisation
• A World Connected: Welfare, Economy and Government since 1945
• From Beer to Fraternity: Alcohol, Society, and Culture in North America
• History in the Classroom
• Holy Wars in Sacred Lands: Conflict and Coexistence during the Crusades
• Heritage Field Project

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions (eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2). Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to work in the private sector, the state sector, a non-governmental organisation, or become self-employed you will find the experience invaluable. Find out more from our Study Abroad Unit.

Please note, a year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See our Fees and Funding section for details.

We have links with several European universities, administered through the Erasmus+ scheme. If you are eligible for a loan from Student Finance you can apply for a travel grant from them. Languages courses, at both beginners and advanced level, are available through the University’s Languages at Leicester scheme.

• For the latest information on the future of the Erasmus+ scheme at UK universities please see our Brexit microsite.

We have links with the following universities:

• Università di Bologna, Italy
• Universitat de València, Spain
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
• Universität Freiburg, Germany
• Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

We also have links with some universities outside Europe. If you are receiving financial assistance from Student Finance your support will continue and you may also be eligible to apply for additional travel grants or scholarships. We have links with the following universities:

• Flinders University, Australia
• University of Calgary, Canada

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (Ancient History dissertation)

Modules

Either choose five option modules from the lists below, three from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B. At least one – but no more than two – of your option modules should be in ancient history.

Ancient History modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World
• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World
• Great Greek Monuments
• Early Christian Europe
• Warfare and Violence in Antiquity

History modules list A

• The USA and the Vietnam War
• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
• Crime and Punishment in African American History
• Food, Diet and Health in Early Modern Europe
• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Ancient History modules list B

• Sparta and the Greek World
• Greek and Roman Art
• The Roman Labyrinth: Crete under the Emperors
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education 

History modules list B

• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939 
• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914
• Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War
• Clothing and Fashion in Historical Perspective. Case Studies of Modern European History in Transnational Context 
• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
• The Medieval Natural World
• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

Or choose two option modules from the lists above (at least one of which must be in ancient history) and one history special subject module from this list:

• The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833
• The Age of Bede and Alcuin: Anglo-Saxon Northumbria and Mercia in the 7th and 8th Centuries
• Beauty, Sex & Science: Whose Body is it Anyway c.1550-2015?
• How Soon is Now? A Social History of Urban England, 1945-1985
• The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Church, State and Belief in Soviet Russia, 1941-1991

Plus your Ancient History Dissertation

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (History dissertation)

Modules

Choose five option modules from the lists below, three from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B. At least one – but no more than two – of your option modules should be in history.

Ancient History modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World
• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World
• Great Greek Monuments
• Early Christian Europe
• Warfare and Violence in Antiquity

History modules list A

• The USA and the Vietnam War
• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
• Crime and Punishment in African American History
• Food, Diet and Health in Early Modern Europe
• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Ancient History modules list B

• Sparta and the Greek World
• Greek and Roman Art
• The Roman Labyrinth: Crete under the Emperors
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education 

History modules list B

• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939 
• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914
• Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War
• Clothing and Fashion in Historical Perspective. Case Studies of Modern European History in Transnational Context 
• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
• The Medieval Natural World
• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

Plus your Dissertation 

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.