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Degree Programme Table: History and History of Art (MA Hons) (UTHISHA)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2020/21, 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.

Students failing 'History of Art 1' will not be allowed to progress to year 2 unless recommended as a special circumstances concession from the Exam Board. Students transferring into History of Art from another programme with no prior study in History of Art, may with the permission of the Undergraduate Director of History of Art, be allowed to take 'History of Art 1' and 'History of Art 2' concurrently in year 2.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

HIST08032 20 credits
History of Art 1A Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700

Must be passed

HIAR08025 20 credits
History of Art 1B Art at the Crossroads of World Cultures 600 to 1700

Must be passed

HIAR08026 20 credits

Course options

First Year History - Worlds Courses

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
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
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
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-Q, T, W and Y

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 2 Academic year: 2020/21, 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
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits
History of Art 2A Reason, Romance, Revolution: Art from 1700 to 1900

Must be passed

HIAR08027 20 credits
History of Art 2B From Modernism and the Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism and Globalisation

Must be passed

HIAR08028 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Second Year History Courses

Select exactly 20 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
Global Connections since 1450
HIST08041 20 credits
Themes in Modern European History
HIST08043 20 credits
History of the United States
HIST08045 20 credits
AND

Classical Art Courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Roman Art and Archaeology
CACA08011 20 credits
Greek Art and Archaeology
CACA08012 20 credits
AND

Outside courses for joint History degrees Year 2

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
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 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-Q, T, W and Y

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 3 Academic year: 2020/21, 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, this can include 'The Transformation of the Roman World' (Please note, this does not include ECSH courses listed in the 'Outside course' collection)

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 of Art (Joint Honours) Year 3 Collection

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two
HIAR10170 20 credits
Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One
HIAR10171 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 100 credits in this group.

History of Art Year 3 options and Architectural History Year 3 and 4 options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

History of Art and Architectural History courses Year 3

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

History Honours Electives (including Historical Skills & Methods I and Historical Skills & Methods II)

Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713
ECSH10008 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
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
Black Nationalism in America
HIST10116 20 credits
The American South since the Civil War
HIST10117 20 credits
The Holocaust
HIST10164 20 credits
Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance
HIST10197 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
Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention
HIST10349 20 credits
Machiavelli and His World
HIST10361 20 credits
The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile
HIST10362 20 credits
The Continental Commitment: British Foreign Policy toward Europe in the Era of the Great War
HIST10378 20 credits
Modernity and Genocide
HIST10380 20 credits
The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire
HIST10383 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
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 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
Mapping Nature, Territories and Cross-Cultural Encounter
HIST10447 20 credits
Indigenous Peoples and Revolution in Modern Latin America
HIST10458 20 credits
Transnational Islam & The African Diaspora
HIST10462 20 credits
Paradoxes of American Government from the Founding to the First World War
HIST10463 20 credits
Pictures and Propaganda: The Printed Image in England, 1500-1700
HIST10467 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 40 credits of the following courses
The World of St Augustine
ANHI10013 20 credits
Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard
ANHI10034 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
Mysteria: The Secret Cults of Antiquity
ANHI10095 20 credits
Running the Roman Empire
ANHI10096 20 credits
The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads
CACA10046 20 credits
Ancient Pasts, Modern Politics
CACA10047 20 credits
Death and Burial in the Greek World
CACA10048 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: 2020/21, 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 History of Art Dissertation Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Full Year
Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees)
HIAR10006 40 credits
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits
AND

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
Documenting Britain: The Documentary Film and British Society, 1896-c.1982
ECSH10105 40 credits
Disease, Medicine and Society in Britain since 1750
ECSH10106 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
British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945
HIST10351 40 credits
The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I
HIST10356 40 credits
Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975
HIST10385 40 credits
Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought
HIST10386 40 credits
Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland
HIST10390 40 credits
The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century
HIST10391 40 credits
Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds
HIST10404 40 credits
Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000
HIST10420 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
China's long World War, 1931-1953
HIST10445 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
Piety, Politics, and Polemic: 'Puritanism' 1558-1660
HIST10454 40 credits
Cartography, Territory, and Indigeneity
HIST10459 40 credits
Postcolonial Indian Diplomacy: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender (1947-Present)
HIST10461 40 credits
War, Commerce, Liberty, and Empire: European Political Thought, from Mandeville to Marx (c. 1700 - c. 1850)
HIST10464 40 credits
African Intellectual History, c. 1600-1970
HIST10465 40 credits
Medieval Voices: Politics, Literature and Society in Early Stewart Scotland. 1371-1488
HIST10468 40 credits
The European Witch-Hunt
SCHI10021 40 credits
AND

History of Art Year 4 options and Architectural History Year 3 and 4 options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
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