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Postgraduate (School of History, Classics and Archaeology)

SCQF Level 11 (260 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
PGHC11201 SS1 A Crucible for Change: Enlightenment in Britain, 1688-1801 Semester 1 20
PGHC11201 SS1 A Crucible for Change: Enlightenment in Britain, 1688-1801 Semester 2 20
PGHC11314 SS1 A Period of Ancient History 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11315 SS1 A Period of Ancient History 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11289 Academic Practice and Methods Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11359 SV1 Achaemenid Historiography: From Cyrus to Alexander Semester 2 20
PGHC11152 SV1 Agricultural Slavery in the Graeco-Roman World Semester 2 20
PGHC11230 SV1 Analytical Methods in Human Osteology Semester 1 20
PGHC11131 SV1 Analytical Methods in Osteoarchaeology Semester 1 20
PGHC11248 Ancient Literary Criticism Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11031 Ancient Philosophy in the 5th and 4th Centuries BC Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11160 Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1936-1950 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11242 SV1 Animal and Human Remains in Archaeology Semester 1 20
PGHC11346 Antislavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11303 Approaches to Diaspora and Migration History Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11209 SS1 Approaches to Gender History Semester 1 20
PGHC11351 Approaches to Modern British Political History Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11360 SS1 Approaches to the Long Late Antiquity Full Year 20
PGHC11307 Archaeogenetics Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11060 SV1 Archaeological Illustration Semester 2 20
PGHC11083 SV1 Archaeology Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11349 SS1 Archaeology Dissertation (MSc by Research) Full Year 180
PGHC11381 SV1 Archaeology and Environment Semester 2 20
PGHC11061 Archaeology of Gender Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11218 Armed Struggle: The Northern Ireland Troubles and their Origins Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11327 Beyond Slavery: Race, Class, and Citizenship in the American South (1860-1940) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11233 SV1 Bioarchaeological Interpretation Semester 2 20
PGHC11130 SV1 Bone Identification, Anatomy and Taphonomy Semester 1 20
PGHC11133 SV1 Bone Manufacturing - Animal Raw Materials Semester 1 20
PGHC11304 British Emigration, 1603-1914 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11239 SV1 Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece Semester 1 20
PGHC11260 SV1 Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850. Semester 2 20
PGHC11244 Cicero and his Correspondents Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11235 Cinema and Society in Britain Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11358 SS1 Cinema and Society in South Asia, 1947-Present Semester 2 20
PGHC11316 Classical Greek Sculpture Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11032 Classical Philology Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11172 Classics: Greek Vase Painting Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11173 Classics: The Topography and Monuments of Athens and Attika Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11175 Claudian Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11213 Clothing Cultures in Comparative Historical Contexts Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11029 Comoedia Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11064 Conceptualising the Neolithic Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11377 SV1 Consensus to Thatcherism: Government and Politics in Post-War Britain Semester 2 20
PGHC11190 SS1 Conservatism in the United States, c.1930-c.1990 Semester 2 20
PGHC11333 SV1 Constantinople, the creation of 'the city of a world's desire' (330-565) Semester 1 20
PGHC11171 Contacts and Conflicts between East and West 600-900: the Pirenne Thesis Re-examined Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11111 Contemporary Scotland Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11352 Cultural Sensibility in the Age of Richardson's Clarissa Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11164 SV1 Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Edinburgh Archives and Sources Semester 1 20
PGHC11300 SV1 DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND EXILE: THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL IRISH SINCE 1700 Semester 2 20
PGHC11237 SV1 Directed Reading and Research (I) Semester 1 40
PGHC11238 SV1 Directed Reading and Research (II) Semester 2 40
PGHC11278 SV1 Directed Reading and Research (Taught Degrees) Flexible 20
PGHC11266 SV1 Directed Reading and Research in Scottish History (I) Semester 1 40
PGHC11265 SV1 Directed Reading and Research in Scottish History (II) Semester 2 40
PGHC11245 Dissertation Preparation, Scottish History Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11109 Dissertation in Scottish Studies Not delivered this year 60
PGHC11246 SV1 Dissertation, MSc by Research in Scottish History Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11374 SV1 Dissertation, Taught MSc in Contemporary History Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11375 SV1 Dissertation, Taught MSc in Eighteenth Century Cultures Full Year 60
PGHC11313 SV1 Dissertation, Taught MSc in History Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11312 SV1 Dissertation, Taught MSc in Scottish History Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11094 SV1 Dissertation: MSc by Research in History (Arts) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11093 SV1 Dissertation: MSc by Research in History (Social Science) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11271 Dress and Identity in the Roman Empire Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11291 Early American Foreign Policy, 1776-1823 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11348 Early Farmers of the Near East Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11249 Early Greek Art (1000-500 BC) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11147 Early Modern Theories of Slavery, from Grotius to the Enlightenment (c. 1600-1800) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11041 SV1 Economic and Social Theory for Historical Analysis Semester 1 20
PGHC11185 Egypt under the Ptolemies Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11372 Eighteenth Century Cultural History 1 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11373 Eighteenth-Century Cultural History 2 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11364 Eighteenth-Century Cultural History: Historiography and Archival Methods Not delivered this year 40
PGHC11088 SV1 Elementary Greek (PG) 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11089 SV1 Elementary Greek (PG) 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11086 SV1 Elementary Latin (PG) 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11087 SV1 Elementary Latin (PG) 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11321 Environmental Economics Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11181 Epicurus and Epicureanism Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11298 Ethnicity, Class and Power in 20th Century Africa Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11059 Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11155 SV1 Exploitation, Expulsions, Extermination Semester 2 20
PGHC11382 SV1 Exploring the British Palaeolithic Semester 1 20
PGHC11263 SV1 Forensic Taphonomy Semester 2 10
PGHC11243 From Foraging to Farming: the Beginnings of Agriculture in the Mediterranean and Europe Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11001 SV1 Frontiers in Archaeology: Research Seminars Semester 1 20
PGHC11066 Gallia from the Third Century BC to Augustus Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11210 Gender and Empire: Contested Meanings and Divergent Practices Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11211 Gender and Society in Europe; 1914-1945 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11250 SV1 Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960 Semester 1 20
PGHC11208 Gender, Nationalism and Modernity in East Asia Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11297 General Research Skills Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11308 Geographical Raw Materials in the Ancient World Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11174 Governance in Scotland, 1424-1625 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11012 Government and Society in the Time of Diocletian (AD 284-312) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11025 Greek Historiography Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11024 Greek Lyric Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11033 Greek Palaeography and Textual Criticism Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11022 Greek Philosophy (Plato's Republic) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11279 SV1 Greek Text Seminar 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11318 SV1 Greek Text Seminar 2 Semester 1 20
PGHC11020 Greek Tragedy Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11187 SV1 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology Semester 1 20
PGHC11182 SV1 Hellenistic Court and Society Semester 1 20
PGHC11335 SV1 Historical Methodology Semester 2 20
PGHC11379 SV1 Historical Research: Approaches to History (online) Semester 2 20
PGHC11378 SV1 Historical Research: Skills & Sources (online) Semester 1 20
PGHC11334 SV1 Historical Research: Skills and Sources Semester 1 20
PGHC11288 Historical Sources in the Digital Age Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11207 SS1 Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History Semester 1 20
PGHC11322 SV1 History Dissertation (MSc by Research Dissertation Only Mode) Full Year 180
PGHC11337 SV1 History PhD Dissertation Workshop Semester 2 20
PGHC11332 History as Romance, Profession, Critique: Theory and Scholarship in the West, 1835 to 1985 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11009 History of the Study of Classical Antiquity Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11156 SV1 Home Fronts: Belligerents (excluding Britain) and Neutrals Semester 1 20
PGHC11176 Home Rule in Ireland and Britain, 1800-2000 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11023 Homer, Iliad and Related Texts Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11080 SV1 Human Evolution Semester 1 20
PGHC11367 SS1 Human Musculo-Skeletal Anatomy Semester 1 20
PGHC11134 SV1 Human-Animal Interactions Semester 2 20
PGHC11275 SV1 Intellectual History of the American Revolution Semester 1 20
PGHC11269 SV1 Intermediate Greek (PG) 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11270 SV1 Intermediate Greek (PG) 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11267 SV1 Intermediate Latin (PG) 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11268 SV1 Intermediate Latin (PG) 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11362 SV1 Introduction to Contemporary History Semester 1 20
PGHC11284 Introduction: Why Study Historical Landscapes and Environments? Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11157 SV1 Invasion, Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance Semester 1 20
PGHC11302 SV1 Island Worlds: Prehistoric Societies in the Mediterranean Sea from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age Semester 2 20
PGHC11241 Isotopes and Archaeology Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11309 Isotopoes and Archaeology - Case Studies Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11228 Kingship in Early Medieval Scotland Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11225 Kingship in Late Medieval Scotland Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11286 Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11180 Late Antique Visual Culture Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11069 SV1 Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe Semester 1 20
PGHC11027 Late Latin Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11026 Latin Historiography Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11281 SV1 Latin Text Seminar 1 Semester 1 20
PGHC11282 SV1 Latin Text Seminar 2 Semester 2 20
PGHC11262 SV1 Legal and Evidential Framework in Forensic Anthropology Semester 2 20
PGHC11354 MSc Dissertation (Landscape, Environment and History) Not delivered this year 60
PGHC11162 SV1 MSc Dissertation (Modern British and Irish History) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11154 SV1 MSc Dissertation (Second World War in Europe) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11193 SS1 MSc Dissertation - American History Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11194 SS1 MSc Dissertation - Classical Art and Archaeology Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11305 SV1 MSc Dissertation - Diaspora and Migration History Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11196 MSc Dissertation - Enlightenment Studies Not delivered this year 60
PGHC11199 SS1 MSc Dissertation - Gender History Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11257 SS1 MSc Dissertation - Intellectual History Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11197 MSc Dissertation - Material and Visual Cultures of the Past Not delivered this year 60
PGHC11195 SS1 MSc Dissertation - Medieval History Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11198 SS1 MSc Dissertation - Social and Cultural History Block 5 (sem 2) 60
PGHC11100 SV1 MSc Dissertation in Classics Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11301 SV1 MSc Dissertation in Classics (Dissertation only Mode) Full Year 180
PGHC11184 SV1 MSc Dissertation in the Hellenistic World Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
PGHC11370 SV1 Making War, Making Peace: European International History, 1914-1945 Semester 2 20
PGHC11205 SS1 Man and the Natural World in the Enlightenment Semester 2 20
PGHC11135 Martyrdom and Voluntary Death in the Ancient World Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11347 SV1 Medicine and Society in Modern Britain Semester 2 20
PGHC11331 Medicine, Science and Society in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11030 Medieval Epic Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11028 Medieval Lyric Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11369 SV1 Medieval Men and Masculinities Semester 2 20
PGHC11099 SV1 Methodology Seminars in Classics Semester 2 20
PGHC11221 Methods and Sources in First Millennium Studies Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11145 Mind and World in Early Greek Philosophy Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11310 Non-isotopic Dating Techniques Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11215 SS1 Normandy and the Normans c. 900-1204 Semester 1 20
PGHC11177 Palaeography and Codicology: Scribes, Texts and Manuscripts in the Middle Ages (Half Course) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11132 SV1 Palaeopathology Human and Animal Disease Semester 2 20
PGHC11021 Philosophy (Theories of Soul: Presocratics, Plato, Boethius) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11186 Power and Culture in Hellenistic Poetry Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11232 SV1 Practical Osteology Semester 1 20
PGHC11306 SV1 Professional Skills in Classics Semester 1 20
PGHC11345 SV1 Propaganda in Renaissance Scotland Semester 2 20
PGHC11311 Quantitative Methods in Archaeological Science Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11320 REINVENTING THE URBAN: TOWNSCAPES AND ENVIRONMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11034 Reading Medieval Latin Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11216 Religion and Ritual in Late Medieval Towns Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11101 Research Context in Classics Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11105 Research Design and Dissertation Preparation Not delivered this year 40
PGHC11356 Research Design: Dissertation Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11079 SV1 Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology Semester 2 20
PGHC11104 Research Sources in Classics Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11103 Research Training in Classics Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11074 Ritual and Monumentality in Atlantic Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11073 Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11353 Rock Art and Archaeology: from Scotland to the Sahara Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11146 Roman Archaeology Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11138 Roman Funerary Art Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11143 Roman Imperial Monuments Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11011 Roman Imperialism 264 BC - AD 14 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11366 Roman villas Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11224 SV1 Saints Cults, Pilgrimage and Piety in Scotland Semester 2 20
PGHC11261 SV1 Scientific Evidence in Forensic Anthropology Semester 2 10
PGHC11117 Scotland and Ireland, 1800-1922 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11317 SV1 Scottish History Dissertation (MSc by Research Dissertation Only Mode) Full Year 180
PGHC11125 Scottish Palaeography 12th-16th centuries Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11376 SV1 Seeking 'Japan' in a Westernizing World: Revolution, Romance, and Imperialism, 1868 - 1945 Semester 2 20
PGHC11231 SV1 Skeletal Pathology Semester 2 20
PGHC11149 SV1 Slavery in the British Atlantic World, 1650-1834 Semester 2 20
PGHC11150 Slavery, Forced Labour and Identity in African History Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11148 Slavery, Society and Law at Rome Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11299 Society and Economy in Hellenistic Egypt Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11136 Society and Ethics in Homer and Hesiod Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11355 Sources and Methods of Historical Analysis Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11247 Special Topics in Scholarly Methods: Anglo-Scottish Print Culture, 1700-2007 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11092 SV1 Supervised Reading Course (E&SH) Semester 2 20
PGHC11203 SS1 The 'Science of Man' in the Scottish Enlightenment Semester 1 20
PGHC11018 The Ancient Novel Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11365 The Archaeology of Cyprus; insularity, identity and internationalism Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11019 The Augustan Ideal Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11153 SV1 The British at War, 1939-1945 Semester 2 20
PGHC11319 The Built Heritage and the Landscape of Conservation Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11192 SS1 The Civil Rights Movement Semester 1 20
PGHC11357 SS1 The Crusades: Thirteenth Century Crossroads Semester 1 20
PGHC11139 SV1 The Dal Riata Semester 1 20
PGHC11283 SS1 The Demise of the Slave-Holding American South, 1846-1877 Semester 2 20
PGHC11206 The Enlightenment - Questions of Geography Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11055 SV1 The Fall of Rome Semester 1 20
PGHC11183 SV1 The Hellenistic City Semester 2 20
PGHC11344 SV1 The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation Semester 2 20
PGHC11169 The Hymnic Tradition Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11343 The Introduction of 'Political Economy' into China and Japan, c.1850-1950 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11068 The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the Third Century BC Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11223 The Late Medieval Chronicle Tradition in Scotland Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11259 The Late Roman city in Asia Minor: Decline or Transformation Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11140 The Life and Works of Adomnan of Iona Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11226 The Lordship of the Isles: a political history Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11144 The Material Culture of Gender in Eighteenth Century Britain Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11276 SV1 The Occult Renaissance Semester 2 20
PGHC11137 The Odes of Bacchylides Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11330 SV1 The Politics of Historiography in Post-Colonial South Asia Semester 2 20
PGHC11010 The Presentation of the Classical World Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11120 The Scottish Highlands, 1350-1850: Imagery, Violence and Romance Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11075 SV1 The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans Semester 2 20
PGHC11274 The Sixties in the United States Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11214 SS1 The Sources of Medieval History Semester 1 20
PGHC11341 The United States and the Cold War Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11273 The United States and the Vietnam War: Origins and Repercussions Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11272 Themes in African Social History Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11236 SV1 Themes in American Historiography Semester 1 20
PGHC11350 Themes in Greek and Roman intellectual history Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11159 SV1 Themes in Modern British and Irish Historiography Semester 1 20
PGHC11329 SS1 Theoretical Archaeology Semester 2 20
PGHC11368 SV1 Thinking the 20th Century - Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, George Orwell Semester 2 20
PGHC11287 Time, Space, Settlement Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11189 Tocqueville's America Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11361 SV1 Topics in post-1945 European History Semester 2 20
PGHC11158 Unionism in Ireland and Britain, c. 1800-2000 Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11285 Urban Environments Not delivered this year 10
PGHC11339 SV1 War and Identities in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland Semester 2 20
PGHC11227 War and Society in Dark Age Scotland Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11371 SV1 Willingly to War? The Origins of the First World War Flexible 20
PGHC11380 SV1 Women and Power at the Italian Renaissance Court Semester 1 20
PGHC11212 SS1 Women in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1500 Semester 2 20
PGHC11290 Women in the Classical World Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11336 SV1 Writing History: Theory and Practice Semester 1 20
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Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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