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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2015/2016

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

Year 1, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: September

  • Notes: All First year students should make an appointment with the Personal Tutor during Induction Week. 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  
    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  
    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  
    HIST08030    European History 1a (1500-1789)   20  
    HIST08031    European History 1b (Since 1789)   20  

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


    Year 2, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

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


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL08012 Sociology 2a: Thinking Sociologically As available 20
    SCIL08013 Sociology 2b: Researching Social Life 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  
    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  
    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  
    HIST08028    Asia and Africa 2a: Societies, Cultures, and Empires, c. 1600-1880   20  
    HIST08029    Asia and Africa 2b: Nationalisms, Liberation Movements and the Legacies of Colonialism, c. 1880-Present Day   20  
    ECHS08008    Christianity before Constantine, 100-306   20  
    ECHS08009    Social Christianity in Britain, Germany and the United States, 1848-1930   20  
    ECHS08002    Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe   20  

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

    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 3, Academic year 2015/16, 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 the compulsory second year Sociology 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 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 7 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


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

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:
    1. Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
    2. ARCA10035: The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans (20 credits) is also available as an option choice in this group.

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Economic and Social History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Scottish History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Ancient History Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Only 20-credit courses may be chosen.
     
    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    Creation of a Protestant Scotland, 1558-1638   20  
    HIAR10114    How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550   20  
    ECHS10012    The Making of Christian Orthodoxy 325-451 3/4   20  
    ECHS10005    Early North African Christianity 3/4   20  
    ECHS10013    Paradise Lost? Christianity in the Pacific 1668-1999 3/4   20  
    ECHS10017    Medieval Religion in Scotland, c1400-c1560   20  
    ECHS10018    Tudor Reformations   20  
    ECHS10016    Evangelism and Empire: Christianity in Africa, 1800 to the present   20  
    ECHS10015    Byzantine Church and Society 451-1672 3/4   20  
    ECHS10019    Christian Encounters in Asia, 1700 to the Present   20  
    ECHS10004    Church, Conflict and Community in Britain and Ireland 1850-1914 3/4   20  
    THET10044    Reformation: Religion in Europe, 1500-1600   20  
    HIAR10009    From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture   20  
    HIAR10143    Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth   20  
    HIAR10124    Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion   20  
    HIAR10039    The High Renaissance in Rome and Florence   20  

     


    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 20 credits from these collections:  


    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 the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10033    Armed Force and Society   20  
    SSPS10001    Contemporary Feminist Debates   20  
    LAWS10104    Criminology 1   20  
    SCIL10062    Designing and Doing Social Research   20  
    SCIL10063    Doing Survey Research   20  
    SCIL10067    Globalization   20  
    SCIL10065    Nations and Nationalism   20  
    SCIL10037    The Project Presentation   20  
    SCIL10018    Social Theory   20  
    SCIL10072    Sociology of Emotions   20  
    SPRT10021    Sport, Media and Society   20  
    SCIL10056    The Internet and Society   20  
    LAWS10059    Gender and Justice   40  
    LAWS10148    Gender and Justice 1   20  
    SCIL10023    Intimate Relationships   20  
    SCIL10079    Digital Culture   20  
    SCIL10081    The social life of food   20  
    SCIL10080    Contemporary Issues in Sociology   20  
    SCIL10078    Dynamics of Social Inquiry   20  
    SCIL10006    Social Demography   20  
    SCIL10077    Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries   20  
    LAWS10057    Punishment and Society   40  
    SCIL10022    Gender Science and Technology   20  

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2015/16, 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, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10083    Britain and the Second World War   40  
    HIST10305    Britain in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1815   40  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  
    HIST10360    Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780   40  
    HIST10306    The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990   40  
    HIST10372    In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present   40  
    HIST10334    The American Civil War: History and Memory   40  
    SCHI10018    Highland Problems,1851 to 1953   40  
    SCHI10017    Clan Campbell and the Lordship of the Isles in the Later Middle Ages   40  
    HIST10385    Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975   40  
    HIST10092    Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950   40  
    HIST10368    Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies   40  
    HIST10356    The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry 1   40  
    HIST10388    Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500   40  
    SCHI10075    Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century   40  
    HIST10390    Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland   40  
    HIST10391    The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century   40  
    HIST10392    The United States and the Nuclear Proliferation Problem, 1945-2015   40  
    HIST10386    Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10033    Armed Force and Society   20  
    SSPS10001    Contemporary Feminist Debates   20  
    LAWS10104    Criminology 1   20  
    SCIL10062    Designing and Doing Social Research   20  
    SCIL10063    Doing Survey Research   20  
    SCIL10067    Globalization   20  
    SCIL10065    Nations and Nationalism   20  
    SCIL10037    The Project Presentation   20  
    SCIL10018    Social Theory   20  
    SCIL10072    Sociology of Emotions   20  
    SPRT10021    Sport, Media and Society   20  
    SCIL10056    The Internet and Society   20  
    LAWS10059    Gender and Justice   40  
    LAWS10148    Gender and Justice 1   20  
    SCIL10023    Intimate Relationships   20  
    SCIL10079    Digital Culture   20  
    SCIL10081    The social life of food   20  
    SCIL10080    Contemporary Issues in Sociology   20  
    SCIL10078    Dynamics of Social Inquiry   20  
    SCIL10006    Social Demography   20  
    SCIL10077    Economic Sociology: Theories and Enquiries   20  
    LAWS10057    Punishment and Society   40  
    SCIL10022    Gender Science and Technology   20  

     


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