Bachelor of Arts - Classics: Fees & Entry Requirements at University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Bachelor of Arts - Classics

New Zealand

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What will I learn?

With over 30 subjects to choose from you can customise your BA degree to suit your interests and career path. Over the three years of your BA degree you will gain the critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and communication skills that employers want. Practical experiences such as internships are on offer too. Bachelor of Arts specialisation option You can also do a BA with a specialisation pathway. Specialisations include a set programme of courses centred on a broad theme. These allow you to develop expertise in more subjects than a major, as well as the opportunity to customise your study to your particular interests. See the Bachelor of Arts - Specialisations. Study Involve: Choose from over 30 Arts subjects as your major and minor, or double major. Many courses offer field trips, real-world case studies, performances, internships, and community projects. You have the option to study a minor from additional subjects across Arts, Commerce, Digital Screen, Health, Product Design, Science, Sport, and Youth and Community Leadership. Get involved with some of the many Arts related student clubs including Arts Society, Japan Society, Classoc, and Musoc.Studying the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome shows us how our modern world formed. Everything from western politics to philosophy, science to architecture, language to storytelling had their origins in these great civilisations, and there are even connections we can make to current events today that have been experienced in the past. At UC, you can customise your Classics studies with topics that interest you, such as art and architecture, politics, drama and written works, ancient language, and even sociology and daily life of the people. Study Involve: You will get hands-on experience with real ancient artefacts through UC’s Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, based at Te Matatiki Toi Ora, Arts Centre, with a collection spanning more than 2,500 years from about 2,000 BCE. Courses include areas such as history, slavery, sex and gender, warfare, art and architecture, political leaders, ancient literature, and philosophy. Option in your final year to take an internship, with past projects including museum and art curatorship work, events management, social media, and research of artefacts.

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Arts

Study options

Full Time (3 Years)

Tuition fees
NZ$34,880.00 (17,55,499) per year
Accommodation - 525(weekly cost)
Application deadline

Expected May 2027

Start date

Expected July 2027

Venue

UC Ilam Campus

20 Kirkwood Avenue,

Upper Riccarton,

Christchurch,

Canterbury,

8041, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

Entry requirements

For international students

To enrol in the BA degree at UC you will need:

University Entrance (or equivalent). UC offers transition programmes for those who need help meeting these requirements.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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