Author: Cordelia Porter

Hi all, hope you had a good Christmas. Over the past few days our student-staff liaison officer has been in touch with many of the department to collect some tips for you all. Hope this is helpful! Dr Polly Stoker: Set yourself realistic/achievable targets i.e., ones that you know you can/will achieve – and perhaps even … Continue reading “Essay Writing Tips!”

I graduated from the University of Birmingham this July, aged twenty-one. With an undergraduate English and Classical Civilisation and Literature degree in hand, I turn to the world and I plan my next adventure in museum work. But picture me a seventeen-year-old school student, sitting in one of several UCAS meetings in which I shyly … Continue reading “‘Classical Creativity: How My Classical Civilisation Degree Inspired My Art’ By Izzie Heis”

Well, heres our next instalment from Polly! She’s got some great answers so get reading! How long have you been at the University of Birmingham? I’ve just worked this out by counting backwards on my fingers, and I am alarmed to report…that I ran out of fingers. It will be since around 2004/5.   Do … Continue reading “20 Questions with Dr Polly Stoker!”

Hi all! As we’re all separated at the moment I thought a great way to get to know each other a bit better is to start a ’20 Questions with…’ segment here on the blog. I’ll be talking to lecturers, alumni and members of the society committees. First to kick us off, is Dr Maeve … Continue reading “20 Questions with Dr Maeve McHugh!”

If you’re an introvert there can be nothing scarier than moving to a new city, with completely new people and be told to ‘make friends.’ On my first day, when my parents dropped me off outside good old Maple Bank, the student helping us carry my things upstairs said “Don’t worry, this is going to … Continue reading “Finding Community at University”

Having spent most of the academic year trudging through what felt like masses of Euripides’ convoluted verse and Ovid’s morally questionable expressions of love, reading Circe felt like dunking my head in a bucket of ice water. Madeline Miller, to me, is an author who can take the most ‘overdone’ stories, like books of the … Continue reading “Circe Review (No Spoilers) by Anu Bagchi”

I am currently a third-year student studying Classical Literature and Civilisation, and I wish that before I started, I had someone share their experience of joining a course, which focuses on the subject they had never studied before. So here it is!   It can be very daunting, I knew that when I joined Birmingham, … Continue reading “‘Starting a Degree With No Previous Experience in the Subject’ by Cordelia Porter”

Hello and welcome to the CAHA Community blog! This is a blog created by the CAHA department in conjunction with the BACAS Society. The blog aims to bring the CAHA community together in order explore interests and experiences of its members. We welcome posts from students, alumni and staff, on a range of topics from … Continue reading “Introduction by Daniel Theodorou”