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Degree Programme Table: Geography and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTGGPAR)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

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


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    GEGR08007 Human Geography Semester 1 20
    ARCA08004 Archaeology 1A Semester 1 20
    ARCA08005 Archaeology 1B Semester 2 20
    Notes: Archaeology practical work requirement: all students registered for a single or joint honours degree in Archaeology normally undertake a minimum of three weeks fieldwork approved by the Head of Archaeology during the summer vacation of their first year of study
    GEGR08010 Physical Geography Semester 2 20
    ARCA08015 Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project Full Year 0




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 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 Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ASST07003    Introductory Chinese Language   20  
    ASST07006    Introductory Chinese Language 2   20  
    IMES07001    Introductory Arabic Language   20  
    ELCF07008    Foundation French Language 2   20  
    ELCG07009    Foundation German Language 1   20  
    ELCG07008    Foundation German Language 2   20  
    ELCG07007    Foundation German Language 3   20  
    ELCH07010    Foundation Spanish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07017    Foundation Spanish Language 3   20  
    ELCI07007    Foundation Italian Language 1   20  
    ELCI07006    Foundation Italian Language 2   20  
    ELCR07004    Foundation Russian Language 1   20  
    ELCR07003    Foundation Russian Language 2   20  
    ELCS07009    Foundation Danish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07008    Foundation Danish Language 2   20  
    ELCS07007    Foundation Swedish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07006    Foundation Swedish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07013    Foundation Catalan Language 2   20  
    ELCH07012    Foundation Portuguese Language 1   20  
    ASST07008    Foundation Japanese Language 1   20  
    ASST07016    Foundation Japanese Language 2   20  
    ASST07017    Foundation Japanese Language 3   20  
    ELCF07012    Foundation French Language 1   20  
    ELCF07007    Foundation French Language 3   20  
    ELCH07018    Foundation Portuguese Language 2   20  
    ELCH07011    Foundation Spanish Language 1   20  
    IMES07003    Introductory Arabic language 2   20  

    Notes:Geography students should only take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year.
     



    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ARCA08013 Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History Semester 1 20
    GEGR08009 Fundamental Methods in Geography Semester 1 20
    ARCA08012 Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


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

    Select a minimum of 40 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR08003    Economic and Political Geography   20  
    GEGR08001    Environmental Sensitivity and Change   20  
    GEGR08002    Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR08004    Social and Cultural Geography   20  

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ASST07003    Introductory Chinese Language   20  
    ASST07006    Introductory Chinese Language 2   20  
    IMES07001    Introductory Arabic Language   20  
    ELCF07008    Foundation French Language 2   20  
    ELCG07009    Foundation German Language 1   20  
    ELCG07008    Foundation German Language 2   20  
    ELCG07007    Foundation German Language 3   20  
    ELCH07010    Foundation Spanish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07017    Foundation Spanish Language 3   20  
    ELCI07007    Foundation Italian Language 1   20  
    ELCI07006    Foundation Italian Language 2   20  
    ELCR07004    Foundation Russian Language 1   20  
    ELCR07003    Foundation Russian Language 2   20  
    ELCS07009    Foundation Danish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07008    Foundation Danish Language 2   20  
    ELCS07007    Foundation Swedish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07006    Foundation Swedish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07013    Foundation Catalan Language 2   20  
    ELCH07012    Foundation Portuguese Language 1   20  
    ASST07008    Foundation Japanese Language 1   20  
    ASST07016    Foundation Japanese Language 2   20  
    ASST07017    Foundation Japanese Language 3   20  
    ELCF07012    Foundation French Language 1   20  
    ELCF07007    Foundation French Language 3   20  
    ELCH07018    Foundation Portuguese Language 2   20  
    ELCH07011    Foundation Spanish Language 1   20  
    IMES07003    Introductory Arabic language 2   20  

    Notes:Geography students should only take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year.
     



    Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry to third year normally requires successful completion of the first two years of the curriculum in Geography and an average mark for Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B combined of 50% or higher, normally at the first attempt.


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ARCA10065 Archaeology in Practice As available 20
    ARCA10064 Theoretical Archaeology As available 20
    GEGR09012 The Nature of Geographical Knowledge Semester 1 20




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



    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR09011    Research Design in Geography   10  
    GEGR09005    Qualitative Methods in Geography   10  
    GEGR09004    Quantitative Methods in Geography   10  

    Notes:Students wishing to take the Geography Dissertation must take Research Design in Geography AND EITHER Qualitative Methods in Geography or Quantitative Methods
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     

    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ARCA10003    Human Origins   20  
    ARCA10063    The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    ARCA10047    Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece   20  
    ARCA10020    Conceptualising the Neolithic   20  
    ARCA10051    From Foraging to Farming: The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Mediterranean and Europe   20  
    ARCA10027    Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    ARCA10076    Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Discovering past lifeways through Archaeological Human Remains   20  
    ARCA10077    Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology   20  
    ARCA10079    Environmental Archaeology   20  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   20  
    ARCA10014    Archaeological Illustration   20  
    ARCA10082    Archaeology of Architecture   20  
    CACA10033    Classical Archaeology in the Field (B)   20  
    ARCA10061    Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca   20  
    ARCA10030    The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC   20  
    ARCA10073    Rock Art and Archaeology: from Scotland to the Sahara   20  
    ARCA10034    Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC   20  
    ARCA10081    Mediterranean Archaeology in the Field   20  
    ARCA10074    Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe   20  
    ARCA10072    Early Farmers of the Near East: The Transition from Foraging to Agriculture   20  
    ARCA10023    Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC   20  
    CACA10005    Roman Propaganda: The Archaeological and Artistic Evidence   20  
    CHCA10005    Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent   20  
    ECSH10031    Heritage in Britain since c.1750   20  
    HIST10397    The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE   20  
    HIST10398    Medicine and health in Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     


    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


    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 from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10053    Geography Dissertation   40  
    ARCA10040    Archaeology Dissertation   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     
    AND   

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


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ARCA10013    Archaeological Fieldwork   20  
    ARCA10003    Human Origins   20  
    ARCA10063    The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    ARCA10047    Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece   20  
    ARCA10020    Conceptualising the Neolithic   20  
    ARCA10071    Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565   20  
    ARCA10051    From Foraging to Farming: The Beginnings of Agriculture in the Mediterranean and Europe   20  
    ARCA10027    Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    ARCA10076    Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Discovering past lifeways through Archaeological Human Remains   20  
    ARCA10077    Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology   20  
    CACA10005    Roman Propaganda: The Archaeological and Artistic Evidence   20  
    ARCA10079    Environmental Archaeology   20  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   20  
    ARCA10014    Archaeological Illustration   20  
    ARCA10082    Archaeology of Architecture   20  
    ARCA10034    Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC   20  
    ARCA10074    Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe   20  
    ARCA10081    Mediterranean Archaeology in the Field   20  
    ARCA10072    Early Farmers of the Near East: The Transition from Foraging to Agriculture   20  
    ARCA10023    Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC   20  
    ARCA10061    Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca   20  
    ARCA10030    The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC   20  
    CACA10033    Classical Archaeology in the Field (B)   20  
    EASC10087    Geoscience Outreach and Engagement   20  
    ECSH10031    Heritage in Britain since c.1750   20  
    HIST10397    The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE   20  
    HIST10398    Medicine and health in Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours   20  

    Notes:Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ARCA10063    The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation   20  
    ARCA10047    Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece   20  
    LATI10017    Latin 1Ha   20  
    LATI10030    Latin 2Ha   20  
    GREE10017    Greek 1Ha   20  
    GREE10027    Greek 2Ha   20  
    GREE10018    Greek 1HB   20  
    GREE10028    Greek 2Hb   20  
    LATI10018    Latin 1Hb   20  
    LATI10031    Latin 2Hb   20  
    CACA10005    Roman Propaganda: The Archaeological and Artistic Evidence   20  
    CACA10014    Hellenistic Art   20  
    CACA10033    Classical Archaeology in the Field (B)   20  
    ARCA10061    Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca   20  
    ARCA10071    Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565   20  
    ARCA10082    Archaeology of Architecture   20  
    CACA10031    A Topic in Classical Archaeology 1   20  
    CACA10032    A Topic in Classical Archaeology 2   20  
    CACA10030    Classical Archaeology in the Field   20  
    CACA10018    Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology   20  
    CHCA10005    Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent   20  
    ARCA10055    Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.   20  

    Notes:Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.
     




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