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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

History of Art 1

Must be passed

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

History of Art 2

Must be passed

Course options

Students are strongly encouraged to take Introduction to Historiography.

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

AND

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.

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.

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

Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two

Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One

AND

Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck

Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900

How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

The Golden Age of Islamic Architecture: Masterpieces from Spain to India

Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art

Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900

OR

Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

AND

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

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

History in Practice

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

History in Theory

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

Architecture and Empire in Britain and the British Colonial World 1783 - 1947

CR Mackintosh: Architecture and Design in Edwardian Scotland

Building for Culture: the Architecture of the Museum

Architectures of Socialism

Modernity and Continuity in British Architecture, c.1919-56

Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck

Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle

Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000

Sexual Politics and the Image

Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900

Fractures: The Origin, Development and Influence of Cubist Painting

City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day

Dada and Surrealism: The Shattered Subject

How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

Histories and theories of photography

The Golden Age of Islamic Architecture: Masterpieces from Spain to India

Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art

Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900

The Minimalist Moment: American Art, 1960-1975

Outsider Art History

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

Selected courses must be taken during Full Year

Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees)

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

Architecture and Empire in Britain and the British Colonial World 1783 - 1947

CR Mackintosh: Architecture and Design in Edwardian Scotland

Building for Culture: the Architecture of the Museum

Architectures of Socialism

Modernity and Continuity in British Architecture, c.1919-56

From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture

Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo

The Renaissance Body

The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art

Impressionism, Decadence, Rhythm: Artists in France and Britain 1870-1914

Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400

Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond

Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610

After Aesthetics: Philosophy and/as Art

Sexuality, Space and the Cinema

Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth

Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day

Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art

Blood, bones, and bodies: Buddhist relics in Asia

Curating Contemporary Art: Histories, Theories and Practice

Bernini: Technologies of Wonder

Surrealism, Violence and History

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