The coursework of the Honours year will be prescribed from year to year by the Convener. In 2009 it will consist of

1. A thesis of 15,000 words on an approved topic, to be submitted normally by the Friday of the next to last teaching week of the final semester of the candidate’s course. Students are required to select the topic for the thesis in consultation with the Convener before the end of their preceding year, and to begin study for it during the intervening vacation.

2. Seminar A: The poetics of landcape: Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics and Statius' Silvae (Dr Jessica Dietrich)

3. Seminar B: To be announced.

The seminars will be assessed on a combination of coursework and a final three-hour examination at the end of the semester in which the seminar is taken.

There will also be a final three-hour examination (one and a half-hour for Combined Honours courses) in unseen translation from Latin to be taken at the end of the last semester of the candidate’s course.

The thesis will carry 40% of the assessment and the coursework in both seminars and the final examinations (including the unseen translation paper) 60% of the assessment.