DPT: English Literature and History (MA Hons) (UTENLHI)

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

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

English Literature 1

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

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

This cannot be Scottish Literature 1

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

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

Entry to year 3 requires:
(1) a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in English Literature 2 and
(2) a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt.

Compulsory courses

English Literature 2

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

This cannot be Scottish Literature 2 or Scottish Literature 1

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

Students wishing to undertake a Dissertation in English Literature are strongly recommended to take all four Critical Practice courses.

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. A. Critical Practice: Criticism (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Poetry (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.
6. A. Critical Practice: Prose (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Performance (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

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

Course options

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

Selected courses must be passed

The Severans

Roman Slavery

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty

Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC

The Emperor in the Late Roman World

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire

Law and Life of Rome

The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans

History in Practice

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

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

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Methodology of History 1

The Fall of Rome

The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

Post-Colonial South Asia

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades

Renaissance Italians

Black Nationalism in America

Pre-Revolutionary America

Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England

The Holocaust

Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970

United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917

Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Restoration Spain, 1875-1923

The Spanish Civil War

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

The French Revolution

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

Contemporary British Conservatism

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

The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile

Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

Montaigne and the Late Renaissance

France since 1940

God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750

Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989

A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa

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

Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

Scottish Politics since 1906

Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland

Scotland and the Great War

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

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Critical Practice: Prose

Critical Practice: Poetry

Critical Practice: Performance

Critical Practice: Criticism

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 1

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 2

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 1

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 2

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

The Severans

Roman Slavery

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty

Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC

The Emperor in the Late Roman World

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire

Law and Life of Rome

The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans

History in Practice

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

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

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Methodology of History 1

The Fall of Rome

The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

Post-Colonial South Asia

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades

Renaissance Italians

Black Nationalism in America

Pre-Revolutionary America

Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England

The Holocaust

Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970

United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917

Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Restoration Spain, 1875-1923

The Spanish Civil War

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

The French Revolution

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

Contemporary British Conservatism

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

The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile

Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

Montaigne and the Late Renaissance

France since 1940

God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750

Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989

A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa

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

Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

Scottish Politics since 1906

Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland

Scotland and the Great War

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

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

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. A. Critical Practice: Criticism (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Poetry (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.
6. A. Critical Practice: Prose (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Performance (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

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