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The Senior Sophister year
If you decide to study ancient history and archaeology in the
final year you will be able to choose two special subjects from
a range on offer. Courses offered recently include Ethnicity in
the ancient world; The city of Rome; Athens and Attica; The
Jews of Palestine; Ancient Cyprus; Entertainment and spectacle
in the Greek and Roman worlds; Goddesses of the ancient
Mediterranean; Anthropology and the Greeks.
You will also write a thesis on a subject of your choice. This is
an opportunity to do research which will allow you to develop
independent ideas and acquire critical skills while investigating in
great depth an area that particularly interests you.
Assessment
A combination of end-of-year examination and continuous
assessment (e.g. essays, seminar presentations and team
projects, artefact studies and short commentaries on texts) is
used and a thesis is written in the final year.
Study abroad
Trinity College has strong links with many Classics departments
abroad, including active participation in the Erasmus exchange
programme with universities in France, Switzerland and
Cyprus. This allows students the option of spending their Senior
Freshman (second) year abroad.
Career opportunities
Recent graduates have entered many fields including
archaeology, heritage and museum work, art restoration,
teaching and higher education policy, publishing, heritage and
museum work, business, accountancy and social work. Each
year some of our graduates also opt to pursue a research career
in history or archaeology beginning with postgraduate study in
Ireland or abroad.
Did you know?
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Trinity College is the only university in Ireland to offer a
course in Ancient history and archaeology.
Graduate Profile
Aoife Condit,
postgraduate in Classics, TCD
“The Department of Classics in Trinity College was
particularly attractive to me because I have always adored
Trinity College’s campus and the courses offered by the
department seemed to be exactly what I wanted. I have
found the course content of the AHA programme to have
a good balance between the literary sources and the
archaeology, allowing us, as students, to have a fuller
understanding of not only the larger history but also the
daily life of the ancient world. I found the seminars in
second and third year particularly enjoyable for being able
to sit and discuss ideas more informally, and while there
were some weeks I may not have enjoyed having to do
my own research, in hindsight they certainly prepared
me for the more thorough research necessary in fourth
year for both my courses and my thesis. Fourth year has
been without doubt my favourite year; after three years
of learning research techniques I have found this year
based around seminars instead of lectures and my own
personal research for the thesis more fun than I probably
ever thought when leaving secondary school. I would
give credit for this not only to the opportunity of having
this year within our undergraduate degree but also to the
professionalism and enthusiasm displayed by the staff for
their subjects and passed on to us.”
Further information
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Tel: +353 1 896 1208
