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Degree Programme Table: History and History of Art (MA Hons) (UTHISHA)

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

  • Notes: All First year students should make an appointment with their 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

    This information is correct for September 2016 entry. The curriculum for subsequent years is currently under review.


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    HIAR08009 History of Art 1 Full Year 40




    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
    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  
    ECSH08036    British Economic and Environmental History since 1900   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  
    HIST08035    Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages   20  
    HIST08034    Early Modern History: A Connected World   20  
    HIST08033    Making of the Modern World   20  
    HIST08036    The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City   20  
    HIST08032    The Historian's Toolkit   20  

     

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

     


    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, 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 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    HIAR08012 History of Art 2 Full Year 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 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
    ECSH08039    Economic History 2.2: The Global Economy Part 2   20  
    ECSH08040    Economic History 2.1: The Global Economy Part 1   20  
    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  
    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  
    ECHS08009    Social Christianity in Britain, Germany and the United States, 1848-1930   20  
    ECHS08002    Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe   20  
    ECHS08010    Christianity in Formation 100-313   20  
    HIST08038    Modern United States History   20  
    HIST08037    The Making of the United States   20  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    CACA08011    Roman Art and Archaeology   20  
    CACA08012    Greek Art and Archaeology   20  

     

    AND   

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

    Notes:If Classical Art/Archaeology courses are chosen, then students must take, as their further course(s), second year history course(s) under the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology or the School of Divinity
     


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

  • Notes:
    Entry into Honours normally requires
    (i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years,
    (ii) passes at 50% or above, achieved at the first attempt, in 40 credits of second year History 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 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 14 set(s) of course options with the following rules.



    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    HIAR10140     History of Art Analytical Project A     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    HIAR10141     History of Art Analytical Project B     (20 credits)

     

    AND   


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    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  
    HIAR10013    The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck   20  
    HIAR10008    Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum   20  
    HIAR10144    The Golden Age of Islamic Architecture: Masterpieces from Spain to India   20  
    ARHI10038    Architecture in Scotland before 1650   20  
    HIAR10134    Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts   20  
    HIAR10122    Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?   20  
    ARHI10023    The Italian Renaissance Villa   20  
    HIAR10148    Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art   20  
    HIAR10149    Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900   20  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10124    Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion   20  
    HIAR10122    Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?   20  
    HIAR10134    Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts   20  
    ARHI10031    Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy   20  

     

    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 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 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 can be chosen.
    2. History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in history.
    3. ARCA10035: The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans (20 credits) can also be taken.

     
    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 can 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 can 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 can be chosen.
     
    OR   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10068    Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900   20  
    HIAR10013    The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck   20  
    HIAR10029    Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle   20  
    HIAR10035    Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000   20  
    HIAR10070    Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300   20  
    HIAR10107    Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930   20  
    HIAR10124    Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion   20  
    HIAR10087    City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day   20  
    HIAR10122    Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?   20  
    HIAR10134    Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts   20  
    HIAR10066    Sexual Politics and the Image   20  
    HIAR10108    Romanticism to Expressionism   20  
    HIAR10008    Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum   20  
    HIAR10104    Dada and Surrealism: The Shattered Subject   20  
    HIAR10144    The Golden Age of Islamic Architecture: Masterpieces from Spain to India   20  
    ARHI10033    Victorian Architecture: Themes and Ideas 1840-1914   20  
    ARHI10038    Architecture in Scotland before 1650   20  
    HIAR10130    The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal   20  
    ARHI10043    Architecture of the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes   20  
    ARHI10023    The Italian Renaissance Villa   20  
    ARHI10022    German Architecture in the Twentieth Century   20  
    HIAR10148    Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art   20  
    HIAR10149    Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900   20  
    ARHI10048    Architecture in Britain, 1951-97: Brutalism and Beyond   20  
    HIAR10151    Outsider Art History   20  

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, 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 6 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
    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  
    HIST10400    Cultures of Disaster: History and the Environment, ca. 1400-1750   40  
    HIST10339    Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800   40  
    HIST10402    The Lands Between: Eastern Europe from the Partitions of Poland to the Fall of Communism   40  
    SCHI10021    The European Witch-Hunt   40  
    HIST10308    The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences   40  
    HIST10336    Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941   40  
    HIST10358    Colonial Wars and Modernizing Missions: Europe's violent Transformations of the non-European World in the 20th Century   40  
    HIST10401    Chinese Whispers: China in the Western Imagination, 1600-2008   40  
    HIST10155    The American Civil Rights Movement   40  
    HIST10404    Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds   40  
    HIST10403    Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio   40  

     
    AND   


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

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, as available
    HIAR10006     Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees)     (40 credits)

     

    AND   


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10069    Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts   20  
    HIAR10082    The Rise of Islamic Art   20  
    HIAR10106    Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China   20  
    HIAR10067    Eating the Book: Word and Image in the Middle Ages   20  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10053    The Renaissance Body   20  
    HIAR10123    Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610   20  
    HIAR10009    From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture   20  
    ARHI10031    Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy   20  

     

    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIAR10077    Impressionism, Decadence, Rhythm: Artists in France and Britain 1870-1914   20  
    HIAR10053    The Renaissance Body   20  
    HIAR10123    Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610   20  
    HIAR10069    Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts   20  
    HIAR10009    From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture   20  
    HIAR10082    The Rise of Islamic Art   20  
    HIAR10109    Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond   20  
    HIAR10135    Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism   20  
    HIAR10106    Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China   20  
    HIAR10119    Orientalism and Visual Culture   20  
    HIAR10065    The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art   20  
    HIAR10146    Science Fictions: Cybernetics, Selfhood and Communication in Post-War Art   20  
    HIAR10084    Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400   20  
    HIAR10143    Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth   20  
    ARHI10033    Victorian Architecture: Themes and Ideas 1840-1914   20  
    ARHI10043    Architecture of the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes   20  
    ARHI10038    Architecture in Scotland before 1650   20  
    ARHI10023    The Italian Renaissance Villa   20  
    HIAR10014    Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo   20  
    ARHI10022    German Architecture in the Twentieth Century   20  
    HIAR10147    Narrative and Storytelling in South Asian Art, from Antiquity to Modernity   20  
    HIAR10139    Sexuality, Space and the Cinema   20  
    HIAR10145    Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day   20  
    ARHI10048    Architecture in Britain, 1951-97: Brutalism and Beyond   20  

     


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