THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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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

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Must be passed

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Must be passed

Archaeology 1A

Must be passed

Archaeology 1B

Must be passed

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Must be passed

Course options

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

Entry into Honours normally requires that:
1. Students pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
2. Students achieve passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B.
3. Students achieve 50% or more in Scotland & Orality and Visualising Scotland.

Compulsory courses

Scotland and Orality

Must be passed at 50%

Visualising Scotland

Must be passed at 50%

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

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

OR

Selected courses must be passed

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. Dissertation in Archaeology or Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology
4. Dissertation in Archaeology or Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology
5. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
6. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
7. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
8. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
9. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
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

Selected courses must be passed

Year 4 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. Dissertation in Archaeology or Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology
4. Dissertation in Archaeology or Dissertation in Scottish Ethnology
5. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
6. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
7. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
8. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
9. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
10. Honours option course in Archaeology
11. Honours option course in Archaeology
12. Honours option course in Archaeology

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

Course options

Archaeology Dissertation

OR

Scottish Ethnology Hons Dissertation

AND

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

Roman Egypt

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

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

Geoscience Outreach and Engagement

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

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

African Environmental History

AND

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