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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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DRPS : DPTs : School of History, Classics and Archaeology DPTs

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Students complete two core courses, four specialised option courses and the MSc Dissertation over the duration of the Degree. Courses run in either Semester 1 or Semester 2, the range of specialised courses will vary depending on staffing availability.

Compulsory courses

Historical Research: Skills & Sources (online)

Historical Research: Approaches to History (online)

Dissertation, Taught MSc in History

Course options

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

The Lords of the Isles: Clan Donald, c.1336 - c.1545 (online)

British Empires, 1601-1948 (online)

Myth and the History of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (online)

Theories of Empire in the Early Modern Period (online)

The Closest of Enemies: Cuban-American Relations 1898-2014 (online)

The Holocaust (online)

Debating Marriage Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages (online)

Gender, Empire, and Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Perspectives from the Wider World (online)

The Contemporary Theory of War (online)

Race, Religion, and Ridicule: The American South from Reconstruction to World War I (online)

AND

These courses are prioritised for students taking the MSc in Ancient Worlds, limited numbers of places may be available.

Debating Marriage Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages (online)

Herod the Great and the End of Hellenism (online)

The Athenian Akropolis (online)

Egypt and its neighbours during the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BCE) (online)

Etruscan Italy, 1000-300 BC (online)

Popular Culture in the Roman World (Online)

Homo migrans: The archaeology of migrations from prehistory to the present (online)

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