You will undertake a research project and produce a dissertation which is submitted on an assigned date in mid-August. The final element of the programme is a 15,000 word dissertation (60 credits), which you complete during the summer months. This is an independent, primary source-based research project supervised by one or more members of academic staff. You have considerable freedom to define your own dissertation project — so long as it is a feasible project that one or more staff members have the expertise to supervise. You will meet with the Programme Director and other members of the department to decide on a topic, usually in Semester 2 and you will put together a research proposal. Example dissertation topics Past dissertation topics include: Agricultural destruction in Hellenistic Greece The legal status of Roman colonies Athletics and addiction in Classical Greece Cicero and Epicureanism This article was published on 2024-06-19