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Degree Programme Table: History and Sociology (MA Hons) (UTHISSO)


Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, 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 2 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL08004 Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society Semester 1 20
    SCIL08005 Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems Semester 2 20




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


    Select exactly 80 credits from the following list of courses, 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  

    Notes:No more than 40 credits of Ancient History courses should be taken.
     

    Year 2, Academic year 2011/12, 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.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL08007 Sociology 2: Transformations of Self and Society As available 20
    SSPS08004 Social and Political Enquiry 2 As available 20
    SSPS08002 Social and Political Theory 2 As available 20




    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, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECSH08008    Social History 2.1   20  
    ECSH08035    Economic History 2: the Global Economy since 1500   40  
    ECSH08039    Economic History 2.2: The Global Economy Part 2   20  
    ECSH08040    Economic History 2.1: The Global Economy Part 1   20  
    HIST08003    American History 2   40  
    SCHI08011    Modern Scottish History   20  
    SCHI08012    Scottish History since 1914   20  
    ECSH08041    Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body   20  
    HIST08024    Asia, Africa, Australasia 2b: Nationalisms, Liberation Movements and the Legacies of Colonialism,c.1900- the Present Day   20  
    HIST08025    Asia, Africa, Australasia 2a: Societies, Cultures and Empires, c. 1600-1900   20  
    ANHI08014    Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World   20  
    ANHI08013    Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History   20  
    HIST08026    Introduction to Medieval Europe 2A   20  
    HIST08027    Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B   20  
    ECHS08006    Ecclesiastical History 2C: Social Christianity in the North Atlantic World   20  

    Notes:For timetabling reasons it is not currently possible to take American History 2 in this degree programme.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     

    Year 3, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Candidates for admission into the third year of study are normally required to have passed all courses (240 credits) not later than June of the second year of study and to have obtained a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second level history course/s and a mark of 50% or above in Sociology 2, Social and Political Enquiry 2 and Social and Political Theory 2.

    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 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL10062 Designing and Doing Social Research As available 20
    SCIL10063 Doing Survey Research As available 20
    SCIL10018 Social Theory As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    CHCA10001     History in Practice     (20 credits)

    Notes:History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in history,
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from Sociology Level 10 courses, as available

     

    AND   

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

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, 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  
    HIST10153    Cuba since 1895: the Pursuit of Independence   20  
    HIST10198    Divided City: Berlin since the Third Reich   20  
    HIST10279    Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe   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  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10333    The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    SCHI10043    Literature and Politics in Early-Modern Scotland   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    SCHI10067    Scotland and the Idea of Britain, 1651-1763   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  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   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  
    ANHI10009    Hollywood's Ancient World: Cinematic Constructs of the Past   20  
    ANHI10017    Society and Epigraphy in Roman Italy   20  
    ANHI10034    Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard   20  
    ANHI10056    After Alexander   20  
    ECSH10008    Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713   20  
    ECSH10017    Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    HIST10117    The American South since the Civil War   20  
    HIST10160    Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England   20  
    HIST10172    The Making of African Urban Spaces in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Order, Disorder and Urban Identities   20  
    HIST10176    Republicanism and the Social Contract: History of Political Thought from Milton to Locke   20  
    HIST10281    The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society   20  
    HIST10291    Africa: Migration and Identity   20  
    HIST10338    The French Revolution   20  
    HIST10340    Human-Animal Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10341    War and Memory in the Twentieth Century   20  
    HIST10342    Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars   20  
    SCHI10005    Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages   20  
    SCHI10011    The Scottish Revolution, 1596-1651   20  
    SCHI10070    Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Political Thought   20  
    ANHI10014    Archaic Athens: Renaissance and Revolution   20  
    ANHI10032    Crowns and Concubines: Court Society in the Ancient World   20  
    ANHI10038    Women in the Ancient Greek World   20  
    ANHI10057    Ancient Greek Slavery   20  
    HIST10164    The Holocaust   20  
    ECSH10026    The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770   20  
    ECSH10063    Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974   20  
    HIST10151    Pre-Revolutionary America   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10013    The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck   20  
    HIAR10035    Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000   20  
    HIAR10068    Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900   20  
    HIAR10070    Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300   20  
    HIAR10082    The Rise of Islamic Art   20  
    ECHS10006    The Creation of a Protestant Scotland 1558-1638 3/4   20  
    HIAR10114    How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550   20  
    ECHS10002    Religion, Government and Society in the Tudor State 3/4   20  
    ECHS10012    The Making of Christian Orthodoxy 325-451 3/4   20  
    ECHS10008    Themes in the Recent History of Christianity in Africa 3/4   20  
    ECHS10005    Early North African Christianity 3/4   20  
    ECHS10009    Reformation Theology, Protestant and Catholic 3/4   20  

     


    Year 4, Academic year 2011/12, 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 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, during Full Year
    SCIL10045     Sociology Project     (40 credits)

    Notes:If taking the Sociology Project, students are expected to use part of the summer vacation of their third year on research for it.
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, during Full Year
    HIST10309     History Dissertation     (40 credits)

     

    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, 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  
    HIST10079    Ethnicity, Class and Power in 20th Century Africa   40  
    HIST10092    Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950   40  
    HIST10308    The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences   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  
    SCHI10021    The European Witch-Hunt   40  
    HIST10339    Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800   40  
    HIST10100    Charlemagne and his World: Society and Empire in Western Europe C.750-900   40  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from Sociology Level 10 courses, as available

     

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