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

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: September

First year students on this programme will be asked to complete a pre-course enrolment form online, prior to arriving in Welcome Week. Full details on how to do this will be provided in the email we send to you in late August. Please consider the following courses.

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

Compulsory courses

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

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

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

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

Greek 1C

Greek 1D

AND

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

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

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 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

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

Introduction to the History of Philosophy

History of Western Medicine

Themes and Perspectives in the History of Science

AND

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

All second year students will be asked to complete a course enrolment form online from the selection below. Full details will be provided by email. During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor to confirm your attendance and discuss any queries you have in relation to your course preferences.

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

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

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

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

AND

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

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

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

History of the United States

AND

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

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 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

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

Introduction to the History of Philosophy

History of Western Medicine

Themes and Perspectives in the History of Science

AND

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2022/23, 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. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

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

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

The United States in the 1960s

Black Nationalism in America

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Restoration Spain, 1875-1923

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

The Third Reich 1933-1945

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

Modernity and Genocide

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

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

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

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

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America

Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

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

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

Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820

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

The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire? The History of the Anthropocene

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

Black Europe: Afropean Experience and Identity in Modern European History

Carnival in the Atlantic World: Play, Power and Politics

The English Discovery of Russia, 1553-1648

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Slavery and Forced Labour in the British Atlantic World

Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East

Global Asia: Contact, Exchange and Colonialism in the Early Modern World

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

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

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

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Studying Ancient History 1

Studying Ancient History 3

Studying Ancient History 4

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

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

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 Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Piecing Together the Cultural Fragments of Ionia (Archaic Period)

The Ancient Novel

Troy after the Fall

Roman Satire

Topic In Classical Literature 1

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Lucretius in Translation

Plato's Republic in Translation

Changing Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

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

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

The United States in the 1960s

Black Nationalism in America

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Restoration Spain, 1875-1923

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

The Third Reich 1933-1945

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

Modernity and Genocide

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

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

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

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

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America

Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

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

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

Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820

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

The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire? The History of the Anthropocene

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

Black Europe: Afropean Experience and Identity in Modern European History

Carnival in the Atlantic World: Play, Power and Politics

The English Discovery of Russia, 1553-1648

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Slavery and Forced Labour in the British Atlantic World

Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East

Global Asia: Contact, Exchange and Colonialism in the Early Modern World

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

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

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

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature

AND

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Studying Ancient History 1

Studying Ancient History 3

Studying Ancient History 4

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

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

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 Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Piecing Together the Cultural Fragments of Ionia (Archaic Period)

The Ancient Novel

Troy after the Fall

Roman Satire

Topic In Classical Literature 1

Poetry and Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Lucretius in Translation

Plato's Republic in Translation

Changing Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2022/23, 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. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to the present

Cheap Print and Popular Culture in Britain, 1500-1800

Disease, Medicine and Society in Britain since 1750

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

The American Civil Rights Movement

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

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies

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

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

China's long World War, 1931-1953

The Geographies of Solidarity: Eastern Europe, Global South and Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War

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

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

Piety, Politics, and Polemic: 'Puritanism' 1558-1660

Feminist Histories of Work from 1750 to WWII

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

Making Men: The History of British Masculinity, c. 1700-1900

Atticus Finch's America: White Liberals and Race in the United States, 1930-2008

Representations of Blackness in Britain and Europe, 1800 - 1950

Revolutionary Britain, 1626 - 1691

'Sexperts' and Scientific Publics in the Global Twentieth Century

Borders, Frontiers and State-Making in Africa c.1750 to the Present

Globalisation Before Modernity? The World of the Silk Roads, 900-1400

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.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Greek Language (B)

Herodotus

Greek Palaeography

Hesiod

Plato's Republic

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.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (B)

Late Latin: Autobiographical Narratives from the 4th and 5th Centuries AD

Scottish Latin Literature