DPT: Celtic and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTCELAR)

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

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

Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Archaeology practical work requirement:
All students registered for a single or combined Honours degree in Archaeology normally undertake a minimum of three weeks fieldwork approved by the Head of Archaeology during the summer vacation of their first year of study.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 1A

Must be passed

Archaeology 1B

Must be passed

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Gaelic 1A

Gaelic 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

Celtic Civilisation 1A: Barbarians, Saints, and Scholars

Selected courses must be passed

Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours normally requires that:
1. Students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
2. Students must achieve passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B.
3. Students must achieve 50% or more in either Gaelic 2A or Gaelic 2B (for Modern Honours route) or in both Celtic Literature in Translation courses (for Medieval Honours route).

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed at 50%

Gaelic 2A

Gaelic 2B

Selected courses must be passed at 50%

Heroes, Wonders, Saints and Sagas: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation

Songs, Swords, Rebels and Revivals: Modern Celtic Literature in Translation

AND

Selected courses must be passed

The Human Skeleton in Archaeology and Forensic Science: Investigating Death and the Dead

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:
One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Theoretical Archaeology Honours course
2. Archaeology in Practice Honours course
3. Celtic Dissertation Part 1 or Archaeology Dissertation
4. Celtic Dissertation Part 2 or Archaeology Dissertation
5. Honours option course in Celtic
6. Honours option course in Celtic
7. Honours option course in Celtic
8. Honours option course in Celtic
9. Honours option course in Celtic
10. Honours option course in Archaeology
11. Honours option course in Archaeology
12. Honours option course in Archaeology

Compulsory courses

Theoretical Archaeology

Must be passed

Archaeology in Practice

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

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

Roman Egypt

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

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

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Archaeomaterials Analysis

Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Hellenistic Art

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

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

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

African Environmental History

AND

Students who have not taken Gaelic language to Year 2 must select their Celtic Honours courses from the list of medieval options.

Selected courses must be passed

AND

If the dissertation is taken in Celtic, a 20-credit unit towards the dissertation will be taken in third year, and a 20-credit completion unit in fourth year.

Selected courses must be passed

Dissertation (Part 1)