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Degree Programme Table: History and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTHISAR)


Year 1, Academic year 2010/11, Starting month: September

  • Notes: All First year students should make an appointment with the Director of Studies during Fresher Week period. Please consider the following courses, and take a draft plan to your meeting.
    The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.



    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ARCA08007 Archaeology 1 Full Year 40
    Notes: Archaeology practical work requirement: all students registered for a single or joint honours degree in Archaeology normally attend a one week practical course in the Easter Vacation, which is assessed as part of Archaeology 1, and also undertake a minimum of two weeks fieldwork approved by the Head of Archaeology during the summer vacation of their first year of study.




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'Courses from schools B, E and G and I - First year UG history courses - Level 8' (ROU_E/B/G_HIST_FIRST_8) , as available.
                                                
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    CELT08015    Celtic Civilisation 1B   20  
    ECHS08004    History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B   20  
    ECHS08005    History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A   20  
    ECSH08026    British Society, 1650-2000 (Social History 1)   40  
    ECSH08029    British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)   20  
    ECSH08031    British Society, the 20th Century (Social History 1.2)   20  
    ECSH08036    British Economic and Environmental History since 1900   20  
    HIST08001    British History 1   40  
    HIST08002    European History 1   40  
    SCHI08010    Medieval Scottish History   20  
    SCHI08014    Early Modern Scottish History   20  
    CLGE08001    The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making   20  
    CLGE08002    The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons   20  
    CLGE08003    The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome   20  
    CLGE08004    The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following School Collection: 'School collection schedule A to Q, T and W level 7 or 8' (SCH_A-Q/T/W_7/8) , as available.

     

    Year 2, Academic year 2010/11, Starting month: August

  • Notes: During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Director of Studies or a Student Support Officer to confirm your course choices and attendance.

    The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ARCA08010 Archaeology 2A: Ancient Europe Semester 2 20
    ARCA08011 Archaeology 2B: The Ancient Near East Semester 1 20
    HIST08026 Introduction to Medieval Europe 2A Semester 1 20
    HIST08027 Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following School Collection: 'School collection schedule A to Q, T and W level 7 or 8' (SCH_A-Q/T/W_7/8) , as available.

     

    Year 3, Academic year 2010/11, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry into the third year normally requires (i) passes in all courses taken in the first two years (240 credits), achieved no later than June of the second year, and (ii) a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second-level history courses.

    During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff to confirm your attendance.

    The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 2 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    CHCA10003 History in Theory Semester 1 20
    ARCA10064 Theoretical Archaeology Semester 1 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 5 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 20 credits from the following course level 10 , during Full Year
    CHCA10001     History in Practice     (20 credits)

    Notes:Students intending to do a dissertation in History should enrol for History in Practice
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following course level 10 , during Semester 2
    ARCA10065     Archaeology in Practice     (20 credits)

    Notes:Students intending to do a dissertation in Archaeology should enrol for Archaeology in Practice
     

    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'History 3/4 Honours Options from School(s) E/B - History (MA) - Level(s) 10' (ROU_E/B_UTHISTY1_10) , as available.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10200    'The Blessed Union' (James VI and I): The Uniting of the Kingdoms   20  
    HIST10114    Australia: Convict Settlement 1788-1852   20  
    HIST10115    Australia: Origins of Convict Settlement   20  
    HIST10116    Black Nationalism in America   20  
    HIST10288    British National Identities, c. 1790 - c. 1930   20  
    HIST10170    Catholic Christendom, 1450-1650   20  
    HIST10053    China's Twentieth Century Revolutions   20  
    HIST10202    Clash of Empires and Religious Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean World from Justinian to Iconoclasm (c550-c800)   20  
    HIST10153    Cuba since 1895: the Pursuit of Independence   20  
    HIST10216    Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1832   20  
    HIST10198    Divided City: Berlin since the Third Reich   20  
    HIST10261    Early Modern English Witchcraft   20  
    HIST10279    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10016    Ghana: From Colonialism to Socialism, C.1880-1983   20  
    CHCA10001    History in Practice   20  
    CHCA10003    History in Theory   20  
    HIST10039    India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot   20  
    HIST10074    Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades   20  
    HIST10049    Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952   20  
    HIST10032    Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History   20  
    HIST10280    Medicine, Science and Politics at the Courts of Early Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10003    Methodology of History 1   20  
    HIST10040    Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    HIST10101    Renaissance Italians   20  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   20  
    HIST10097    The Armenian Genocide   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  
    HIST10333    The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860   20  
    CACA10001    History of the Study of Classical Antiquity   20  
    ANHI10053    Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire   20  
    ANHI10054    The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest   20  
    ANHI10012    The Greek World and Rome   20  
    ANHI10007    The Severans   20  
    ANHI10055    Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia   20  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   20  
    CLTR10009    Troy after the Fall   20  
    ANHI10036    The Emperor Nero   20  
    ARCA10071    Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565   20  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    SCHI10012    Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland   20  
    SCHI10059    Europe and the Creation of Scotland, 1000-1300   20  
    SCHI10043    Literature and Politics in Early-Modern Scotland   20  
    SCHI10066    Piety and Patronage in Scotland, 1000-1300   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    SCHI10069    Saints and Sea-Kings: early medieval Gaelic Scotland, 563-761   20  
    SCHI10067    Scotland and the Idea of Britain, 1651-1763   20  
    SCHI10068    Scotland's Savages: the Pictish realm and nation, 671-869   20  
    ECSH10007    British Business History Since 1930   20  
    ECSH10016    Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    ECSH10084    Edinburgh since 1750   20  
    ECSH10031    Heritage in Britain since c.1750   20  
    ECSH10004    Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880   20  
    ECSH10083    Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830   20  
    ECSH10050    New Zealand and the World Economy, 1870-1939   20  
    ECSH10082    Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830   20  
    ECSH10005    Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939   20  
    ECSH10021    The U.S. Economy since 1918   20  
    ECSH10087    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949   20  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   20  
    ECSH10069    Youth and Modernity, c.1780-1880   20  
    ECSH10070    Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970   20  
    HIST10058    Britain and the Falklands War   20  
    HIST10208    Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970   20  
    HIST10197    Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance   20  
    HIST10257    Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx   20  
    ANHI10010    The City of Rome   20  

     
    AND   


    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following "Archaeology" Subject Collection:
    'Subject Collection schedule Archaeology Level 10' (SUB_ARCA_10) , as available.
    Code   Description / Course Name   Credits
    ANHI10010    The City of Rome   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10045    Dress and Society in the Ancient World   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10054    The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10055    Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia   (20 Credits)  
    (ARCA10*)   All Level 10 courses with a primary subject of 'Archaeology'   (as selected)  
    CACA10002    The Presentation of the Classical World   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10005    Roman Propaganda: The Archaeological and Artistic Evidence   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10007    Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10018    Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology   (20 Credits)  
    ECSH10031    Heritage in Britain since c.1750   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10054    Rome and the Caledonians   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10065    Celt and Saxon: the British Isles 250-750   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10068    Scotland's Savages: the Pictish realm and nation, 671-869   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10069    Saints and Sea-Kings: early medieval Gaelic Scotland, 563-761   (20 Credits)  

    Notes:'Archaeology Fieldwork' and 'Archaeology Dissertation' are not available until the fourth year and should not be taken in the third year.
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following "Classical Art/Classical Archaeology" Subject Collection:
    'Subject Collection schedule Classical Art/Classical Archaeology level 10' (SUB_CACA_10) , as available.
    Code   Description / Course Name   Credits
    ANHI10010    The City of Rome   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10054    The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10055    Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10047    Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10048    Art and Architecture of Ancient Cyprus: Archaeological Perspectives   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10061    Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10071    Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565   (20 Credits)  
    (CACA10*)   All Level 10 courses with a primary subject of 'Classical Art/Classical Archaeology'   (as selected)  
    GREE10017    Greek 1Ha   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10018    Greek 1HB   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10027    Greek 2Ha   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10028    Greek 2Hb   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10017    Latin 1Ha   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10018    Latin 1Hb   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10030    Latin 2Ha   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10031    Latin 2Hb   (20 Credits)  

    Notes:'The Presentation of the Classical World' is not available to students on Archaeology programmes and should not be taken.
     



    Year 4, Academic year 2010/11, Starting month: August

  • Notes: During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff to confirm your attendance.

    The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.



    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 5 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'History 4MA Honours Options from School(s) E - History (MA) - Level(s) 10' (ROU_E_UTHISTY1_10) , during Full Year
                                                                                       
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10083    Britain and the Second World War   40  
    HIST10305    Britain in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1815   40  
    HIST10081    China: Gender, Patriarchy and Socio-Political Change in the 20th Century   40  
    HIST10278    Crime, Rebellion and Protests in Africa   40  
    HIST10079    Ethnicity, Class and Power in 20th Century Africa   40  
    HIST10092    Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950   40  
    HIST10085    Origins and Diplomacy of the Second World War 1919-1945   40  
    HIST10154    The Age of Jefferson: Republicanism in the United States, c.1776-1826   40  
    HIST10155    The American Civil Rights Movement   40  
    HIST10152    The Era of the American Revolution, 1754-1789   40  
    HIST10304    The Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile   40  
    HIST10094    The Holocaust   40  
    SCHI10062    The Nobility of Scotland from Macbeth to Bannockburn, 1050-1328   40  
    HIST10162    The Norman Conquest of England   40  
    HIST10090    The Northern Renaissance: Burgundian Court and Civic Culture in the Low Countries c.1430-1520   40  
    SCHI10035    The Picts   40  
    HIST10165    The Revolutionary Decade? Europe in the 1960s   40  
    HIST10306    The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990   40  
    HIST10308    The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences   40  
    HIST10283    Venice c. 1400 - c. 1700   40  
    HIST10088    Women in England, 1300-1700   40  
    HIST10335    Pioneers of Cultural Communication: Europe, India and Japan, 1850-1950   40  
    HIST10336    Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941   40  
    HIST10334    The American Civil War: History and Memory   40  
    SCHI10017    Clan Campbell and the Lordship of the Isles in the Later Middle Ages   40  
    SCHI10018    Highland Problems,1851 to 1953   40  
    SCHI10020    Scotland and America, 1603 - 1917   40  
    SCHI10021    The European Witch-Hunt   40  

     
    AND   


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'Dissertations in History from School(s) E - History (MA) - Level(s) 10' (ROU_E_UTHISTY2_10) , as available.
            
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCHI10026    Scottish History Dissertation   40  
    ECSH10054    Economic History/Economic and Social History 4 - Dissertation   40  
    HIST10309    History Dissertation   40  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following course level 10, as available.
    ARCA10040     Archaeology Dissertation     (40 credits)

     

    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: C  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  


    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following "Archaeology" Subject Collection:
    'Subject Collection schedule Archaeology Level 10' (SUB_ARCA_10) , as available.
    Code   Description / Course Name   Credits
    ANHI10010    The City of Rome   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10045    Dress and Society in the Ancient World   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10054    The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10055    Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia   (20 Credits)  
    (ARCA10*)   All Level 10 courses with a primary subject of 'Archaeology'   (as selected)  
    CACA10002    The Presentation of the Classical World   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10005    Roman Propaganda: The Archaeological and Artistic Evidence   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10007    Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire   (20 Credits)  
    CACA10018    Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology   (20 Credits)  
    ECSH10031    Heritage in Britain since c.1750   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10054    Rome and the Caledonians   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10065    Celt and Saxon: the British Isles 250-750   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10068    Scotland's Savages: the Pictish realm and nation, 671-869   (20 Credits)  
    SCHI10069    Saints and Sea-Kings: early medieval Gaelic Scotland, 563-761   (20 Credits)  

    Notes:Should be from both semesters
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following "Classical Art/Classical Archaeology" Subject Collection:
    'Subject Collection schedule Classical Art/Classical Archaeology level 10' (SUB_CACA_10) , as available.
    Code   Description / Course Name   Credits
    ANHI10010    The City of Rome   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10054    The City of Carthage: From Dido to the Arab Conquest   (20 Credits)  
    ANHI10055    Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10047    Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10048    Art and Architecture of Ancient Cyprus: Archaeological Perspectives   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10061    Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca   (20 Credits)  
    ARCA10071    Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565   (20 Credits)  
    (CACA10*)   All Level 10 courses with a primary subject of 'Classical Art/Classical Archaeology'   (as selected)  
    GREE10017    Greek 1Ha   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10018    Greek 1HB   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10027    Greek 2Ha   (20 Credits)  
    GREE10028    Greek 2Hb   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10017    Latin 1Ha   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10018    Latin 1Hb   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10030    Latin 2Ha   (20 Credits)  
    LATI10031    Latin 2Hb   (20 Credits)  

    Notes:'The Presentation of the Classical World' is not available to students on Archaeology programmes and should not be taken.
     


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