This MA programme is a full-time one-year MA for those with an interest in Byzantine archaeology and literature and who want to do more. While it is a free-standing qualification, it also provides preparation for advanced research in the field of Byzantine Studies. It is unusual in the postgraduate structure as it requires that the first semester be taken at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and the second term at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

A key element of Byzantine Studies is that much of the source material is in Greek. This MA is designed to allow students to gain a basic grounding in Greek so that they can begin to read and understand Byzantine sources for themselves at first hand. This scheme has therefore been devised to allow students to spend a semester at the Institute of Byzantine Studies learning Greek and other research skills specifically for Byzantinists, as well as the necessary skills for reading Byzantine text, before moving to Newcastle to study Byzantine archaeology in the second term.

i) Research methods
ii) Byzantine Greek 1
iii) Byzantine Greek 2
iv) Byzantine archaeology
v) Archaeology and text
vi) Dissertation