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Degree Programme Table: History and Scottish History (MA Hons) (UTHISSHMAH)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, 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 with your Director of Studies.

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

HIST08032 20 credits
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Must be passed

HIST08036 20 credits

Course options

First Year History - Worlds Courses

Select exactly 40 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 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
You may only choose one History course (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.
Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism
ARHI08004 20 credits
Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture
ARHI08009 20 credits
Urbanism and the City: Past to Present
ARHI08010 20 credits
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 Science 1
STIS08005 20 credits
History of Western Medicine
STIS08009 20 credits
AND

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

Select between 0 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: 2019/20, Starting in: August

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

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08042 20 credits

Course options

Year 2 History Courses for Scottish History

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%
The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
ANHI08015 20 credits
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 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 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
You may only choose one History course (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.
The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
ANHI08015 20 credits
Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism
ARHI08004 20 credits
Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture
ARHI08009 20 credits
Urbanism and the City: Past to Present
ARHI08010 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 Science 1
STIS08005 20 credits
History of Western Medicine
STIS08009 20 credits
AND

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

Select between 0 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: 2019/20, 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 80 credits of second year History courses which must include Introduction to Historiography and Themes in Scottish History since 1560. This can also include 'The Transformation of the Roman World' (Please note, this does not include ECSH courses listed in the 'Outside course' collection)

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select between 20 and 80 credits of the following courses
Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present
CACA10039 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
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
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages
HIST10428 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
The Scottish Enlightenment: Origins, Contexts and Ideas
SCHI10076 20 credits
From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747
SCHI10077 20 credits
AND

History Honours Electives

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
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
Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640
ECSH10016 20 credits
The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770
ECSH10026 20 credits
Heritage in Britain since c.1750
ECSH10031 20 credits
Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974
ECSH10063 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
Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990
ECSH10094 20 credits
Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present
ECSH10100 20 credits
India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot
HIST10039 20 credits
Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952
HIST10049 20 credits
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
The United States in the 1960s
HIST10103 20 credits
The American South since the Civil War
HIST10117 20 credits
The Holocaust
HIST10164 20 credits
Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx
HIST10257 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society
HIST10281 20 credits
Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921
HIST10337 20 credits
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
HIST10341 20 credits
From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain
HIST10344 20 credits
The Crusades and Medieval Society
HIST10348 20 credits
Machiavelli and His World
HIST10361 20 credits
Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941
HIST10366 20 credits
France since 1940
HIST10371 20 credits
The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire
HIST10383 20 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928
HIST10395 20 credits
Culture and Society in Early Modern China
HIST10412 20 credits
Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean
HIST10415 20 credits
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815
HIST10416 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 Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present
HIST10427 20 credits
The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages
HIST10428 20 credits
Body and Power in Colonial Africa
HIST10432 20 credits
Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages
HIST10433 20 credits
Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965
HIST10434 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
Mapping Nature, Territories and Cross-Cultural Encounter
HIST10447 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
The Scottish Enlightenment: Origins, Contexts and Ideas
SCHI10076 20 credits
From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747
SCHI10077 20 credits
AND

Ancient History Honours Courses

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
The Severans
ANHI10007 20 credits
The Greek World and Rome
ANHI10012 20 credits
Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC
ANHI10022 20 credits
Ancient Greek Slavery
ANHI10057 20 credits
Roman Judaea
ANHI10078 20 credits
Early Roman Egypt
ANHI10079 20 credits
The History of Republican Italy through Inscribed Objects
ANHI10080 20 credits
Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States
ANHI10090 20 credits
Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans
ANHI10091 20 credits
The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)
ANHI10092 20 credits
The Roman Emperor: the Nature of His Rule
ANHI10093 20 credits
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
CACA10007 20 credits
Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions
CACA10021 20 credits
Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present
CACA10039 20 credits
A Visual History of the Later Roman World
CACA10040 20 credits
The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World
CACA10042 20 credits
The Punic Mediterranean
CACA10043 20 credits
The History of North Africa from the Iron Age to the Islamic Conquest
CACA10044 20 credits
Communities of Byzantine Asia Minor, AD 500-1300
CACA10045 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent
CHCA10005 20 credits
Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World
CLTR10014 20 credits
AND

Outside courses for History Year 3 and 4

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC
ARCA10030 20 credits
Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca
ARCA10061 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)
ARCA10085 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
Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past
ARCA10092 20 credits
CR Mackintosh: Architecture and Design in Edwardian Scotland
ARHI10041 20 credits
Modernity and Continuity in British Architecture, c.1919-56
ARHI10046 20 credits
Early Modern Architecture Across Media
ARHI10055 20 credits
Bible and Archaeology
BIST10055 20 credits
Church, Conflict and Community in Britain and Ireland 1850-1914 3/4
ECHS10004 20 credits
Evangelism and Empire: Christianity in Africa, 1800 to the present
ECHS10016 20 credits
Reformations: Britain and Ireland 1475-1600
ECHS10022 20 credits
From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture
HIAR10009 20 credits
Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000
HIAR10035 20 credits
Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900
HIAR10068 20 credits
Rosslyn Chapel - Art, Architecture, and Experience in Late Medieval Scotland
HIAR10173 20 credits
Trade, Commerce and Society in the Roman Empire
LAWS10174 20 credits
The Origins of Modern Commerce
LAWS10181 20 credits
Lords and Vassals in Medieval Scotland
LAWS10186 20 credits
Foundations of Modern Sovereignty
LAWS10188 20 credits

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

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits

Course options

History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to the present
ECSH10099 40 credits
Cheap Print and Popular Culture in Britain, 1500-1800
ECSH10103 40 credits
Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950
HIST10092 40 credits
The American Civil Rights Movement
HIST10155 40 credits
The Spanish Civil War
HIST10303 40 credits
The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990
HIST10306 40 credits
The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences
HIST10308 40 credits
The American Civil War: History and Memory
HIST10334 40 credits
Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941
HIST10336 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
Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought
HIST10386 40 credits
Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500
HIST10388 40 credits
Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio
HIST10403 40 credits
Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds
HIST10404 40 credits
British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832
HIST10417 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
Empire of emancipation: the British Empire in the 'age of reform', 1828-1848
HIST10435 40 credits
Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300
HIST10438 40 credits
The Era of the Witness: Trauma in Contemporary History
HIST10444 40 credits
China's long World War, 1931-1953
HIST10445 40 credits
The Geographies of Solidarity: Eastern Europe, Global South and Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War
HIST10448 40 credits
Place and Displacement: Histories of Refugees and Humanitarianism in 20th Century Africa
HIST10449 40 credits
The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453
HIST10450 40 credits
Unions, Revolutions and Enlightenment: Developments in Political Thought in Early Modern Scotland
HIST10451 40 credits
Resistance, Resilience and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America
HIST10452 40 credits
Conquer or Die: African Americans Writing US History
HIST10453 40 credits
The European Witch-Hunt
SCHI10021 40 credits
AND

Scottish History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Unions, Revolutions and Enlightenment: Developments in Political Thought in Early Modern Scotland
HIST10451 40 credits
The European Witch-Hunt
SCHI10021 40 credits
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