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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

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.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 1A

Archaeology 1B

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

The Historian's Toolkit

Course options

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

The Making of the United States

AND

You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor to confirm your course choices and attendance.

This information is correct for students in year 2 in session 17/18. Students entering year 2 in session 18/19 will be required to take Introduction to Historiography.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students are strongly encouraged to take Introduction to Historiography.

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Modern United States History

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

Introduction to Historiography

AND

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

AND

You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 3 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

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 and in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B.

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

Theoretical Archaeology

History in Theory

Course options

Students intending to do a dissertation in History should enrol for History in Practice

History in Practice

OR

Students intending to do a dissertation in Archaeology should enrol for Archaeology in Practice

Archaeology in Practice

AND

Human Origins

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists

Visualizing the past - data, narratives and visual explanations

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Villains, Victims and Forensic Evidence: An introduction to Forensic Anthropology theory and practice

Classical Archaeology in the Field (B)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

AND

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Earning a Living in the Scottish Town, 1400 to 1800: Occupational History and the Urban Environment

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Post-Colonial South Asia

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Machiavelli and His World

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea

A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America

Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

Scotland and the Great War

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

The Scottish Enlightenment: Origins, Contexts and Ideas

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

The Emperor Nero

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

The History of Republican Italy through Inscribed Objects

Ideas of Slavery in Antiquity

Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

The New Testament and Graeco-Roman Culture

Living on the Edge: the Archaeology of Roman Frontiers (1st-4th century AD)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Approaching Alexander the Great: History, Themes and Traditions

The Legendary Afterlives of Alexander the Great

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

Year 4 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Archaeology Dissertation

History Dissertation

AND

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to the present

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

The American Civil Rights Movement

The Spanish Civil War

The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences

The American Civil War: History and Memory

Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800

British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945

The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present

Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975

Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds

British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832

Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000

The European Witch-Hunt

Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century

AND

Human Origins

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists

Visualizing the past - data, narratives and visual explanations

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Villains, Victims and Forensic Evidence: An introduction to Forensic Anthropology theory and practice

Geoscience Outreach and Engagement

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

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