DPT: History and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTHISAR)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, 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

Archaeology 1A

Must be passed

Archaeology 1B

Must be passed

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

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

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 Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2023/24, 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.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 2. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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.

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

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 Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2023/24, 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 Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B.

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

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

Compulsory courses

Theoretical Archaeology

Historical Skills and Methods I

Course options

Students intending to do a dissertation in History should enrol for Historical Skills & Methods II.

Historical Skills and Methods II

Students intending to do a dissertation in Archaeology should enrol for Archaeology in Practice

Archaeology in Practice

AND

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

Human Origins

Archaeological Illustration

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

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)

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

The Archaeology of Children and Childhood

Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

A Topic in Classical Archaeology 1

Roman Architecture

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Petra and the Nabataeans: Classicism in the Desert

Classical Greek Sculpture

AND

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

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

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

Post-Colonial South Asia

The United States in the 1960s

Black Nationalism in America

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

Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention

The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile

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

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

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

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

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

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

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

Universal Khans: Life & Society in the Mongol World Empire, 1200-1400

The Doomed Kingdom: Power, Law and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

Water and Society in Pre-Modern Eurasia

Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800

African Environmental History

India in the 18th and 19th Centuries: From Mughal Empire to British Empire

Gazing West: Scotland and the Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century

Oceanic Histories and Monsoon Cultures: The Indian Ocean, 700-1750 CE

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

Contemporary Scotland

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: August

Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

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

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.