Practical modules in the Department of Classics and Archaeology

Alongside traditional assessment, such as essays, exams and presentations, the Department of Classics and Archaology offer practical modules that bring real-world scenarios into the classroom.

On these modules, you'll produce a wide range of media including:

• posters
• websites and mobile apps
• education packs
• performance plans
• storyboards

You can also make use of the excellent resources available in the Digital Transformations Hub for working with digital and graphic material.

Classics modules offering creative assessment

Communicating the Past

For this module, you'll choose an area of Classics or Archaeology which interests you and communicate your chosen topic to the general public. How you do that is entirely up to you! 

Teaching includes lectures and special presentations on different possible project-types, as well as seminars based on discussion of individual projects. 

Classics and Popular Culture

Explore the reception of ancient Greek and Roman culture in a variety of modern popular media, including films, theatre, novels, museums, architecture, art, children's literature, and comics. 

You'll consider how the academic and non-academic worlds interact with and influence one another, through lectures including film-screenings and group discussions.

Studying Classical Scholarship

Develop your understanding of scholarship about classical antiquity, helping you approach your reading in a historically informed, engaged and critical way. 

You'll choose from a range of landmark works of classical scholarship on a variety of topics (literary, historical, archaeological) and analyse it during seminars based on student presentations and written coursework.

Archaeology modules offering creative assessment

Archaeological Research: Theory and Practice

Through a mix of lectures, class workshops and research skills sessions, you'll develop your research skills and discover how we interpret archaeological evidence from different perspectives. 

You'll also explore how changes in the wider social and theoretical landscape have changed archaeological understanding through time, discover the concepts and methods that you will use in your third year dissertation, and learn how to develop a research proposal

Archaeology and Society: Heritage and Professional Skills

This module embeds professional practice and employability at the heart of the archaeology undergraduate curriculum. 

You wil work in groups to create an innovative heritage project about a local site or topic, learning to work on real-world projects following standard professional practice. Through this experience, you'll develop key skills in project planning, teamwork and visual and oral communication.

Student projects