This course offers you the opportunity to combine the study of two different areas within a single, coherent degree programme. This integrated programme spans the Mediterranean and European worlds from the emergence of Greek communities after the end of the Bronze age to the end of the medieval period. It offers a balance between modules on historical periods (such as fifth and fourth century BC Greece, the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Roman Republic, the Early and Later Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, and the Angevin kings of England) and thematic social and cultural aspects (such as warfare, religion, politics, kingship, art, medicine, slavery, gender and ethnicity).

The School believes in giving its graduates the best opportunities to find employment. We organise interactive workshops with the Careers Service to help students identify their skills and attributes. Some of our graduates enter professions which make direct use of their academic expertise such as work in archives or museums. The majority however compete very successfully in a wide range of other fields. In 2010, 62% of the School’s graduates were in employment within six months of graduation while a further 22% were engaged in further study.