DPT: Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTARCHA)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, 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

Archaeology 1A

Must be passed

Archaeology 1B

Must be passed

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Must be passed

Course options

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

Celtic Civilisation 1A

Celtic Civilisation 1B

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

Earth Dynamics

Human Geography

History of Art 1

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

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

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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

Course options

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 2a: Order & the City

Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Celtic Civilisation 1A

Celtic Civilisation 1B

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

Environmental Sensitivity and Change

Geomorphology

Economic and Political Geography

Social and Cultural Geography

History of Art 1

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Scotland and Orality

Visualising Scotland

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, 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, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B.

Entry to honours in Archaeology remains at the discretion of the Head of Archaeology in the light of performance across all courses.

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology in Practice

Theoretical Archaeology

Course options

Early Roman Egypt

Human Origins

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

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

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists

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

Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past

Bible and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Athenian Akropolis

Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present

A Visual History of the Later Roman World

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

The Punic Mediterranean

The History of North Africa from the Iron Age to the Islamic Conquest

Communities of Byzantine Asia Minor, AD 500-1300

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

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology Dissertation

Course options

Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.

Students who were abroad in Year 3 may be required to take Archaeology in Practice and/or Theoretical Archaeology. Please contact the Erasmus/International Officer for Archaeology.

Early Roman Egypt

Human Origins

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

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

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past