This module invites students to engage with key concepts and controversies in the contemporary study of Classics and Ancient History by reading and reflecting on specialist scholarship. Case studies specific to research currently undertaken by Liverpool staff individually and cumulatively provide an introduction to the wider stream of intellectual debate and to a range of topical, theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to inform the discipline. In addition to building subject-based knowledge and understanding, the module also prepares students for examining concepts and controversies and identifying and adopting an appropriate in relation to their dissertation research project.