DPT: Archaeology and Ancient History MA (Hons) (UTMAHARANH1F)

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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

Course options

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

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

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor or a Student Support Officer to confirm your course choices and attendance.

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

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

Must be passed at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Must be passed at 50%

Course options

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

AND

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, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B; and
(iii) passes at 50% or above in the obligatory 2nd level Classics 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

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Course options

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

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

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 Student Support Officer 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

Classics Dissertation

AND

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.

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