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Degree Programme Table: History and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTHISAR)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Notes:
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

You must take these courses
Archaeology 1A
ARCA08004 20 credits
Archaeology 1B
ARCA08005 20 credits
Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project
ARCA08015 0 credits
The Historian's Toolkit
HIST08032 20 credits

Course options

First Year History - Worlds Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Making of the Modern World
HIST08033 20 credits
Early Modern History: A Connected World
HIST08034 20 credits
Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages
HIST08035 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Outside courses for joint History degrees Year 1

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B
ECHS08004 20 credits
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A
ECHS08005 20 credits
British Economic and Environmental History since 1900
ECSH08036 20 credits
Making of the Modern World
HIST08033 20 credits
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City
HIST08036 20 credits
Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World
IMES08033 20 credits
Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'
IMES08034 20 credits
Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges
IMES08036 20 credits
Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict
IMES08037 20 credits
Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment
PHIL08016 20 credits
History of Medicine 1
STIS08001 20 credits
History of Science 1
STIS08005 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ARCA08012 20 credits
Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ARCA08013 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits

Course options

Second Year History Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%
Modern United States History
HIST08038 20 credits
Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500
HIST08039 20 credits
Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000
HIST08040 20 credits
Global Connections since 1450
HIST08041 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560
HIST08042 20 credits
Themes in Modern European History
HIST08043 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Outside courses for joint History degrees Year 2

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
The Human Skeleton in Archaeology and Forensic Science: Investigating Death and the Dead
ARCA08014 20 credits
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B
ECHS08004 20 credits
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A
ECHS08005 20 credits
The Making of the Modern Body
ECSH08042 20 credits
The Global Economy since 1750
ECSH08043 20 credits
Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World
IMES08033 20 credits
Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'
IMES08034 20 credits
Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges
IMES08036 20 credits
Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict
IMES08037 20 credits
Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment
PHIL08016 20 credits
History of Medicine 1
STIS08001 20 credits
History of Science 1
STIS08005 20 credits
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
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

You must take these courses
Theoretical Archaeology
ARCA10064 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 20 credits

Course options

Historical Skills and Methods II

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students intending to do a dissertation in History should enrol for Historical Skills & Methods II.
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits
OR

Archaeology in Practice

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students intending to do a dissertation in Archaeology should enrol for Archaeology in Practice
Archaeology in Practice
ARCA10065 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Archaeology Year 3 Honours Courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Human Origins
ARCA10003 20 credits
Archaeological Illustration
ARCA10014 20 credits
Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus
ARCA10027 20 credits
Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC
ARCA10034 20 credits
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
ARCA10047 20 credits
Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.
ARCA10055 20 credits
Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca
ARCA10061 20 credits
Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
ARCA10074 20 credits
Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Discovering past lifeways through Archaeological Human Remains
ARCA10076 20 credits
Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology
ARCA10077 20 credits
Archaeology of Architecture
ARCA10082 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The archaeology of animal remains
ARCA10084 20 credits
GIS for Archaeologists
ARCA10086 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)
ARCA10088 20 credits
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
ARCA10091 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent
CHCA10005 20 credits
AND

History 3/4 Option Courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867
ANHI10088 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent
CHCA10005 20 credits
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713
ECSH10008 20 credits
Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640
ECSH10017 20 credits
The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770
ECSH10026 20 credits
Heritage in Britain since c.1750
ECSH10031 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10082 20 credits
Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10083 20 credits
Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949
ECSH10087 20 credits
Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949
ECSH10088 20 credits
London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture
ECSH10091 20 credits
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914
ECSH10098 20 credits
Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present
ECSH10100 20 credits
Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850
ECSH10102 20 credits
Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History
HIST10032 20 credits
India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot
HIST10039 20 credits
China's Twentieth Century Revolutions
HIST10053 20 credits
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
Renaissance Italians
HIST10101 20 credits
The United States in the 1960s
HIST10103 20 credits
The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990
HIST10111 20 credits
Black Nationalism in America
HIST10116 20 credits
The American South since the Civil War
HIST10117 20 credits
The Holocaust
HIST10164 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe
HIST10262 20 credits
Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
HIST10279 20 credits
The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society
HIST10281 20 credits
Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921
HIST10337 20 credits
Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars
HIST10342 20 credits
The Crusades and Medieval Society
HIST10348 20 credits
Medieval Islamic Empires
HIST10352 20 credits
Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941
HIST10366 20 credits
France since 1940
HIST10371 20 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation
HIST10396 20 credits
Atlantic Slavery
HIST10410 20 credits
Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean
HIST10415 20 credits
Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa
HIST10418 20 credits
The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939
HIST10419 20 credits
The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?
HIST10421 20 credits
The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present
HIST10427 20 credits
Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968
HIST10431 20 credits
Body and Power in Colonial Africa
HIST10432 20 credits
Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965
HIST10434 20 credits
No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation
HIST10436 20 credits
History of the Modern World in 9 Things
HIST10440 20 credits
The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World
HIST10441 20 credits
A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects
HIST10442 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland
SCHI10012 20 credits
From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747
SCHI10077 20 credits
Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland
SCHI10078 20 credits
AND

Ancient History Honours Courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Roman Slavery
ANHI10011 20 credits
The World of St Augustine
ANHI10013 20 credits
Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome
ANHI10052 20 credits
Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia
ANHI10055 20 credits
After Alexander
ANHI10056 20 credits
Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens
ANHI10061 20 credits
The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire
ANHI10084 20 credits
Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome
ANHI10085 20 credits
Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece
ANHI10086 20 credits
Judaea in the Hellenistic World: A Clash of Cultures?
ANHI10087 20 credits
The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867
ANHI10088 20 credits
The Dark Side of Empire: Conspiracy in Imperial Rome
ANHI10089 20 credits
Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present
CACA10039 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent
CHCA10005 20 credits
Troy after the Fall
CLTR10009 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes:
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 and Archaeology Dissertation Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Archaeology Dissertation
ARCA10040 40 credits
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits
AND

History 4th Year Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950
HIST10092 40 credits
Venice c. 1400 - c. 1700
HIST10283 40 credits
British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945
HIST10351 40 credits
The Origins of the First World War, 1871-1917
HIST10355 40 credits
Colonial Wars and Modernizing Missions: Europe's violent Transformations of the non-European World in the 20th Century
HIST10358 40 credits
Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780
HIST10360 40 credits
In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present
HIST10372 40 credits
Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500
HIST10388 40 credits
Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland
HIST10390 40 credits
British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832
HIST10417 40 credits
Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000
HIST10420 40 credits
The Dutch Miracle: The United Provinces in the Golden Age
HIST10424 40 credits
Medicine and health in the early Middle Ages
HIST10429 40 credits
Disunited kingdoms: why do union states fail?
HIST10430 40 credits
Empire of emancipation: the British Empire in the 'age of reform', 1828-1848
HIST10435 40 credits
The 'Other' in Latin American History
HIST10437 40 credits
Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300
HIST10438 40 credits
History of Transatlantic Relations since 1945
HIST10439 40 credits
AND

Archaeology Year 4 Honours Courses

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Human Origins
ARCA10003 20 credits
Archaeological Fieldwork
ARCA10013 20 credits
Archaeological Illustration
ARCA10014 20 credits
Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus
ARCA10027 20 credits
Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC
ARCA10034 20 credits
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
ARCA10047 20 credits
Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.
ARCA10055 20 credits
Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca
ARCA10061 20 credits
Theoretical Archaeology
ARCA10064 20 credits
Archaeology in Practice
ARCA10065 20 credits
Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
ARCA10074 20 credits
Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Discovering past lifeways through Archaeological Human Remains
ARCA10076 20 credits
Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology
ARCA10077 20 credits
Archaeology of Architecture
ARCA10082 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The archaeology of animal remains
ARCA10084 20 credits
GIS for Archaeologists
ARCA10086 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)
ARCA10088 20 credits
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
ARCA10091 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent
CHCA10005 20 credits
Geoscience Outreach and Engagement
EASC10087 20 credits
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