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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 Fresher Week period. 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

Architectural History 1

Must be taken during Full Year

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

The Historian's Toolkit

Course options

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

The Making of the United States

AND

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

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with 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.

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

Architectural History 2a: Order & the City

Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City

The Making of the Modern Body

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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

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 including the compulsory Social History course.

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

'History in Practice' is recommended if taking Dissertation in Social History in the fourth year.

Texts and Theories in Western Architecture

History in Practice

AND

History in Practice

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

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

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

'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History

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

Early Modern English Witchcraft

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

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

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

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

Scotland and the Great War

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

AND

The course 'Archaeology of Architecture' (ARCA10082) can also be taken in this grouping.

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

If you take the History Dissertation, the topic must be in social history.

Selected courses must be taken during Full Year

Architectural History Dissertation

History Dissertation

AND

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

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

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

'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History

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

Early Modern English Witchcraft

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

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

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

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

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

The European Witch-Hunt

Scotland and the Great War

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

AND

The course 'Archaeology of Architecture' (ARCA10082) can also be taken in this grouping.

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