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Classical studies was one of the first academic subjects to appreciate the possibilities of the digital age. This department is part of a strong research grouping in digital humanities at the OU, and hosts a number of funded research projects of which Dr Elton Barker is Principal Investigator: HESTIA (with colleagues at Southampton, Oxford and Birmingham), Google Ancient Places (with colleagues at Southampton, Edinburgh and UC Berkeley) and Pelagios (with Southampton and the Austrian Institute of Technology).

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We welcome suitable postgraduates in any of our areas of research expertise. We cover a vast range of classical subjects, from material culture and history, through language and literature, to philosophy and the history of science and medicine.

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We run regular postgraduate and research seminars, and all students are encouraged to attend and to present papers. In addition, our Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate School organises a comprehensive training programme for postgraduate students that covers research techniques, professional/key skills and provides support for personal development.

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The programme offers a fast-track route to a professional qualification and is one of the most successful heritage programmes internationally. Two specialist pathways are available: Education and Interpretation, and Management.

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The programme provides specialised postgraduate training in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of the history of medicine. The programme offers comprehensive coverage of the history of medicine from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century and provides the necessary research training that will either link into further study at PhD level or act as a stand-alone MA.

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Designed primarily for students who have studied Latin, Greek or classical studies in their first degree, this flexible programme provides training in a range of research techniques, improves your knowledge of classical language, literature and culture, and enables you to pursue your own interests. You take compulsory modules in approaches to classics research and dissertation training (60 credits) and then tailor the MA more closely to your specific interests from a range of optional modules (60 credits).

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This is a specialist programme geared towards preparing students for higher research in ancient epic. The programme lasts for one year (two years part-time), and centres around a core module in ancient epic.

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This is a programme geared towards preparing students for higher research in ancient historiography. We have a distinctive strength in ancient historiography, with no fewer than four full-time members of staff currently conducting research in relevant areas.

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This is a specialist programme geared towards preparing students for higher research in ancient philosophy. Durham has a longstanding tradition of international excellence in the field of ancient philosophy, with several recent doctoral students having gone on to take up academic positions in the UK and abroad.

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This is a programme geared towards preparing students for higher research in the Classical Tradition - partly through direct research training, and partly through modules taught by experts in their field in small-group seminars. The reception of classical culture in later times is among the most important and most rapidly expanding areas of classical scholarship, and we have particular strength in this field, with no fewer than six full-time members of staff currently conducting research in relevant areas.

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