Literae Humaniores
Literae Humaniores is the most pompously-titled degree course in all academia, even once you have surmounted the initial barrier that it is in Latin. In English, it means ‘the finer writings’, which, apart from still being pretty supercilious, implies that most of said works comprise Latin and Greek written several thousand years ago.It is more commonly known as ‘Classics’, and is offered only by the University of Oxford.
Mods
Honour Moderations in Classics, or ‘Mods’, were evil, but have now been vanquished by the Classics class of 2007, and will never rise again.
They were previously in the Guinness Book of Records as the most gruelling set of exams conceived, beating the Chinese Civil Service examinations to the title.
Proper Mods involved eleven three-hour papers (and an optional extra one, for the masochistic) all sat over a week. New Mods will involve fewer texts and fewer papers, but probably the same amount of post-exam drinking.