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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2018

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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

History of Art 1

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Course options

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 to confirm your course choices and attendance.

Compulsory courses

History of Art 2

Must be passed

Introduction to Historiography

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

AND

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

AND

Students must not take History courses run by HCA as outside options, but may choose other courses from HCA.

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.

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

Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two

Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One

AND

Georgian Architecture 1715-1830

Scottish Architecture 1650 to 1815

Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck

Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300

How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal

Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art

Visions of the Buddha: Religious Art in Medieval Japan

The Arts in the Age of the Great Caliphs 650-1250

Rosslyn Chapel - Art, Architecture, and Experience in Late Medieval Scotland

Representing Nature in Early Modern Northern Europe

Manuscripts, Artists & Audiences: Introduction to the Medieval Codex

Envisioning the 'Foreign': European Depictions of Non-European Places and Cultures c.1550-c.1750

OR

Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

AND

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in history.

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

Georgian Architecture 1715-1830

Le Corbusier and 20th-Century Architectural Culture

Structure and Architecture: The Birth of the Design Team

Architecture in Britain, 1951-97: Brutalism and Beyond

Global Architectures of Colonial Latin America

Scottish Architecture 1650 to 1815

Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck

Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle

Sexual Politics and the Image

Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300

City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day

Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930

Romanticism to Expressionism

Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?

The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal

FROM PERFORMANCE TO PARTICIPATION: ART AFTER 1968

Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art

The Minimalist Moment: American Art, 1960-1975

Visions of the Buddha: Religious Art in Medieval Japan

The Arts in the Age of the Great Caliphs 650-1250

Bad Painting: Humour, Sarcasm and Stupidity in Modern and Contemporary Art

Rosslyn Chapel - Art, Architecture, and Experience in Late Medieval Scotland

The Art of Revolution: A Century of Russian Visual Culture

Manuscripts, Artists & Audiences: Introduction to the Medieval Codex

Envisioning the 'Foreign': European Depictions of Non-European Places and Cultures c.1550-c.1750

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

Selected courses must be taken during Full Year

Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees)

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

Georgian Architecture 1715-1830

Le Corbusier and 20th-Century Architectural Culture

Structure and Architecture: The Birth of the Design Team

Architecture in Britain, 1951-97: Brutalism and Beyond

Global Architectures of Colonial Latin America

Scottish Architecture 1650 to 1815

From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture

Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo

The Renaissance Body

The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art

Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts

Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond

Orientalism and Visual Culture

After Aesthetics: Philosophy and/as Art

Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism

Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth

Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day

Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art

Blood, bones, and bodies: Buddhist relics in Asia

Curating Contemporary Art: Histories, Theories and Practice

Bernini: Technologies of Wonder

Art, Culture and Inequality

Stars, Robots, and Talismans: Science, Magic & Medieval Islamic Visual Culture

Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler

Romantics, Rebels and Revivalists: From Highland Glen to Scotland's Shrine, Scottish Art 1850-1927

The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945

Animal Bodies in the Art and Visual Culture of Seventeenth-Century Europe

Art, Illness and Death in the Middle Ages

Images Under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture

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