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

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, 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

Must be passed

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

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

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 Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, 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

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

Greek 2A

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Latin 2A

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

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

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

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

History of the United States

AND

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

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

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 Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2021/22, 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, this can include 'The Transformation of the Roman World' (Please note, this does not include ECSH courses listed in the 'Outside course' collection)
(iii) passes at 50% or above, achieved at the first attempt, in 40 credits of second year Classics courses.

The courses chosen in Years 1 and 2 will determine a student's Classics course choices at Honours level.

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.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

The Demon Drink: producing, consuming and opposing alcohol in Britain and Ireland, c. 1760 to 1921

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1832

Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

The Crusades and Medieval Society

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Machiavelli and His World

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Modernity and Genocide

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

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

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

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

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

Indigenous Peoples and Revolution in Modern Latin America

Transnational Islam & The African Diaspora

Paradoxes of American Government from the Founding to the First World War

Pictures and Propaganda: The Printed Image in England, 1500-1700

Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Black Europe: Afropean Experience and Identity in Modern European History

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

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

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

AND

Lyric

Greek Language (A)

Greek Comedy

Socrates and Plato

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Latin Language (A)

Neronian and Flavian Verse

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Tacitus

The Severans

Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty

The Emperor in the Late Roman World

Studying Ancient History 2

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ancient Greek Warfare

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

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

The Archaeology of Technology: from prehistory to the present

On the move: Human migrations from the beginnings to the 21st century

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

Hellenistic Art

Roman Architecture

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

From Athena to Edina: Antiquity in Revolution between Greece and Scotland

Body and Medicine in Ancient Rome

Examining Classics: past, present and future

The Ancient Novel

Tragedy

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

The Demon Drink: producing, consuming and opposing alcohol in Britain and Ireland, c. 1760 to 1921

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1832

Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

The Crusades and Medieval Society

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Machiavelli and His World

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Modernity and Genocide

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

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

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

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

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

Indigenous Peoples and Revolution in Modern Latin America

Transnational Islam & The African Diaspora

Paradoxes of American Government from the Founding to the First World War

Pictures and Propaganda: The Printed Image in England, 1500-1700

Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Black Europe: Afropean Experience and Identity in Modern European History

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

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

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

AND

Lyric

Greek Language (A)

Greek Comedy

Socrates and Plato

Greek Pastoral Poetry

AND

Latin Language (A)

Neronian and Flavian Verse

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Tacitus

AND

The Severans

Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty

The Emperor in the Late Roman World

Studying Ancient History 2

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ancient Greek Warfare

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

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

The Archaeology of Technology: from prehistory to the present

On the move: Human migrations from the beginnings to the 21st century

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

Hellenistic Art

Roman Architecture

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

From Athena to Edina: Antiquity in Revolution between Greece and Scotland

Body and Medicine in Ancient Rome

Examining Classics: past, present and future

The Ancient Novel

Tragedy

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, 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

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

Documenting Britain: The Documentary Film and British Society, 1896-c.1982

Disease, Medicine and Society in Britain since 1750

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

The American Civil Rights Movement

The Spanish Civil War

The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990

The American Civil War: History and Memory

Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941

British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945

The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I

Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies

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

Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975

Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought

Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland

Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio

Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds

Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000

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

Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300

The Era of the Witness: Trauma in Contemporary History

Place and Displacement: Histories of Refugees and Humanitarianism in 20th Century Africa

War, Commerce, Liberty, and Empire: European Political Thought, from Mandeville to Marx (c. 1700 - c. 1850)

African Intellectual History, c. 1600-1970

Medieval Voices: Politics, Literature and Society in Early Stewart Scotland. 1371-1488

Feminist Histories of Work from 1750 to WWII

The Archival Turn and the Fashioning of Enlightenment, c.1690-1800

Stage of Extremes: Transformation and Violence in 20th Century Germany

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.

Lyric

Greek Language (B)

Greek Comedy

Socrates and Plato

Greek Pastoral Poetry

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 Language (B)

Neronian and Flavian Verse

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Tacitus