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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2015/2016

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Degree Programme Table: Scottish Literature and History (MA Hons) (UTSLHISMAH)

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

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your
    Personal Tutor.


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ENLI08016 Scottish Literature 1 As available 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 6 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


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

    Notes:This cannot be English Literature 1
     

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


    Select exactly 40 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08001     British History 1     (40 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 08, as available
    ECSH08026     British Society, 1650-2000 (Social History 1)     (40 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08002     European History 1     (40 credits)

     
    OR   


    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    SCHI08010     Medieval Scottish History     (20 credits)

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    SCHI08014     Early Modern Scottish History     (20 credits)

     




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


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ENLI08004 Scottish Literature 2 As available 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 10 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


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

    Notes:This cannot be English Literature 2
     

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


    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08026     Introduction to Medieval Europe 2A     (20 credits)

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08027     Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08003     American History 2     (40 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08028     Asia and Africa 2a: Societies, Cultures, and Empires, c. 1600-1880     (20 credits)

     

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    HIST08029     Asia and Africa 2b: Nationalisms, Liberation Movements and the Legacies of Colonialism, c. 1880-Present Day     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    SCHI08011     Modern Scottish History     (20 credits)

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    SCHI08012     Scottish History since 1914     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    ECSH08008     Social History 2.1     (20 credits)

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, as available
    ECSH08041     Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body     (20 credits)

     



    Year 3, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry to year 3 normally requires a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Scottish Literature 2 and a mark of 50% or more in 40 credits of second year History courses at first attempt.


  • 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, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10116    Black Nationalism in America   20  
    CHCA10001    History in Practice   20  
    CHCA10003    History in Theory   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  
    HIST10003    Methodology of History 1   20  
    HIST10040    Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   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  
    ECSH10016    Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640   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  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   20  
    ECSH10070    Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970   20  
    HIST10208    Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970   20  
    ECSH10008    Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713   20  
    HIST10281    The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society   20  
    HIST10338    The French Revolution   20  
    HIST10164    The Holocaust   20  
    HIST10151    Pre-Revolutionary America   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  
    HIST10343    Contemporary British Conservatism   20  
    HIST10352    Medieval Islamic Empires   20  
    ANHI10007    The Severans   20  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   20  
    ANHI10012    The Greek World and Rome   20  
    ANHI10013    The World of St Augustine   20  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   20  
    ANHI10022    Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC   20  
    ANHI10026    The Emperor in the Late Roman World   20  
    ANHI10052    Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome   20  
    ANHI10053    Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire   20  
    ANHI10058    Law and Life of Rome   20  
    SCHI10012    Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland   20  
    HIST10261    Early Modern English Witchcraft   20  
    HIST10257    Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx   20  
    HIST10031    The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890   20  
    ECSH10087    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949   20  
    ECSH10062    Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974   20  
    HIST10359    The Third Reich 1933-1945   20  
    ECSH10017    Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    HIST10362    The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile   20  
    HIST10364    Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy   20  
    HIST10361    Machiavelli and His World   20  
    HIST10376    Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10371    France since 1940   20  
    HIST10379    Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730   20  
    ECSH10091    London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture   20  
    SCHI10073    Scotland and the Great War   20  
    HIST10348    The Crusades and Medieval Society   20  
    HIST10377    A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror   20  
    SCHI10072    Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland   20  
    HIST10381    Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge   20  
    HIST10344    From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain   20  
    HIST10342    Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars   20  
    HIST10374    God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750   20  
    HIST10370    Montaigne and the Late Renaissance   20  
    HIST10160    Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England   20  
    HIST10382    Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    HIST10366    Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941   20  
    SCHI10074    The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974   20  
    HIST10383    The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire   20  
    HIST10253    United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917   20  
    HIST10384    Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  

    Notes:History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.
     

    Select exactly 20 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses, during Semester 1

    Notes:English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)
     

    Select exactly 20 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses, during Semester 2

    Notes:English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ENLI10306    Critical Practice: Criticism   10  
    ENLI10112    Critical Practice: Prose   10  
    ENLI10187    Critical Practice: Poetry   10  
    ENLI10188    Critical Practice: Performance   10  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10116    Black Nationalism in America   20  
    CHCA10001    History in Practice   20  
    CHCA10003    History in Theory   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  
    HIST10003    Methodology of History 1   20  
    HIST10040    Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   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  
    ECSH10016    Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640   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  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   20  
    ECSH10070    Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970   20  
    HIST10208    Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970   20  
    ECSH10008    Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713   20  
    HIST10281    The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society   20  
    HIST10338    The French Revolution   20  
    HIST10164    The Holocaust   20  
    HIST10151    Pre-Revolutionary America   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  
    HIST10343    Contemporary British Conservatism   20  
    HIST10352    Medieval Islamic Empires   20  
    ANHI10007    The Severans   20  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   20  
    ANHI10012    The Greek World and Rome   20  
    ANHI10013    The World of St Augustine   20  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   20  
    ANHI10022    Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC   20  
    ANHI10026    The Emperor in the Late Roman World   20  
    ANHI10052    Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome   20  
    ANHI10053    Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire   20  
    ANHI10058    Law and Life of Rome   20  
    SCHI10012    Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland   20  
    HIST10261    Early Modern English Witchcraft   20  
    HIST10257    Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx   20  
    HIST10031    The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890   20  
    ECSH10087    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949   20  
    ECSH10062    Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974   20  
    HIST10359    The Third Reich 1933-1945   20  
    ECSH10017    Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    HIST10362    The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile   20  
    HIST10364    Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy   20  
    HIST10361    Machiavelli and His World   20  
    HIST10376    Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10371    France since 1940   20  
    HIST10379    Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730   20  
    ECSH10091    London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture   20  
    SCHI10073    Scotland and the Great War   20  
    HIST10348    The Crusades and Medieval Society   20  
    HIST10377    A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror   20  
    SCHI10072    Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland   20  
    HIST10381    Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge   20  
    HIST10344    From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain   20  
    HIST10342    Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars   20  
    HIST10374    God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750   20  
    HIST10370    Montaigne and the Late Renaissance   20  
    HIST10160    Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England   20  
    HIST10382    Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    HIST10366    Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941   20  
    SCHI10074    The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974   20  
    HIST10383    The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire   20  
    HIST10253    United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917   20  
    HIST10384    Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  

    Notes:History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

     


    Year 4, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Notes: Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
    1. (Honours option for History). 2.(Honours option for History). 3.(English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1). 4.(English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2).
    5.(A. Critical Practice: Criticism (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Poetry (10 credits) OR Honours option for History). 6.(A. Critical Practice: Prose (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Performance (10 credits) OR Honours option for History). 7.(Honours option for History). 8.(Honours option for History).
    9.(English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1). 10.(English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2). 11.(Dissertation for English Literature or History). 12.(Dissertation for English Literature or History).


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    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 exactly 40 credits course level 10, as available
    HIST10309     History Dissertation     (40 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, as available
    ENLI10329     English Literature Dissertation     (40 credits)

     



    AND   

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

    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   

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


    Select exactly 20 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Option courses
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    CLLC10002    Film Criticism and Analysis   20  
    CLLC10003    Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide   20  

     

    OR   


    Select exactly 20 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses, during Semester 1

    Notes:English Literature 4 Honours Option course (semester 1)
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from English Literature Level 10 courses, during Semester 2

    Notes:English Literature 4 Honours Option course (semester 2)
     




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