DPT: History and Classics (MA Hons) (UTHISCL)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, 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

The Historian's Toolkit

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

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

Greek 1C

Greek 1D

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

AND

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

Making of the Modern World

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment

History of Medicine 1

History of Science 1

AND

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

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.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Course options

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2A ex-beginners.

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2A ex-beginners.

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

Greek 2A

Latin 2A

AND

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

AND

The Human Skeleton in Archaeology and Forensic Science: Investigating Death and the Dead

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment

History of Medicine 1

History of Science 1

AND

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

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 40 credits of second year 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.

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

Course options

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take the dissertation in History in 4th year.

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

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

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

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

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, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

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 American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

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

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

Greek Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Greek language pathway.

Homer

Greek Language (A)

Early Greek Philosophy

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Latin Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Latin language pathway.

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Catilinarian Conspiracy

Medieval Latin

Roman Slavery

The World of St Augustine

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

Judaea in the Hellenistic World: A Clash of Cultures?

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Dark Side of Empire: Conspiracy in Imperial Rome

Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca

Archaeology of Architecture

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Troy after the Fall

Classical Receptions

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

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

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

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

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, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

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 American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

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

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

Homer

Greek Language (A)

Early Greek Philosophy

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

AND

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Catilinarian Conspiracy

Medieval Latin

AND

Roman Slavery

The World of St Augustine

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

Judaea in the Hellenistic World: A Clash of Cultures?

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Dark Side of Empire: Conspiracy in Imperial Rome

Gallia from the 3rd Century BC to Augustus

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca

Archaeology of Architecture

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Troy after the Fall

Classical Receptions

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, 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

Classics Dissertation

History Dissertation

AND

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

Venice c. 1400 - c. 1700

British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945

The Origins of the First World War, 1871-1917

Colonial Wars and Modernizing Missions: Europe's violent Transformations of the non-European World in the 20th Century

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

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

Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500

Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland

British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832

Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000

The Dutch Miracle: The United Provinces in the Golden Age

Medicine and health in the early Middle Ages

Disunited kingdoms: why do union states fail?

Empire of emancipation: the British Empire in the 'age of reform', 1828-1848

The 'Other' in Latin American History

Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300

History of Transatlantic Relations since 1945

AND

1. Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics;
2. Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Homer

Greek Language (B)

Early Greek Philosophy

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics;
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Latin Satire

Latin Language (B)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Catilinarian Conspiracy

Medieval Latin