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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Degree Programme Table: Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCLATEA1F)

Jump to: Year 1

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

Notes:
For this degree students take one compulsory course, 40 credits of skills courses, 60 credits of specialist option courses, and complete a dissertation. Normally, students will take a skills course and at least one specialist option course in each semester. Some variation may be permitted where appropriate in consultation with the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
MSc Dissertation in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
PGHC11437 60 credits
Approaches to the Long Late Antiquity

Must be taken during Full Year

PGHC11360 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 100 credits in this group.

Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies MSc Courses

Select between 40 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Courses run in either Semester 1 or Semester 2, the range of specialised courses will vary depending on staffing availability.

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

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1 will be: ¿The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)¿
The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2 will be: ¿Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, 717-841¿
Science, Sorcery and Wonder in Islam (PG)
DIVI11045 20 credits
Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval
ECHS11003 20 credits
Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church
ECHS11021 20 credits
Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900
HIAR11092 20 credits
A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1
PGHC11429 20 credits
A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2
PGHC11430 20 credits
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent
PGHC11438 20 credits
Islamic Philosophy
PHIL11209 20 credits
AND

Language Courses for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students must take a paired set of language courses.

Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
Introducing Classical Syriac (PG)
DIVI11053 20 credits
Arabic 1a for PG Credit
IMES11103 20 credits
Arabic 1b for PG Credit
IMES11104 20 credits
Arabic 2a for PG Credit
IMES11105 20 credits
Arabic 2b for PG Credit
IMES11106 20 credits
Persian 1A for PG Credit
IMES11107 20 credits
Persian 1B for PG Credit
IMES11108 20 credits
Persian 2A for PG Credit
IMES11109 20 credits
Persian 2B for PG Credit
IMES11110 20 credits
Turkish 1A for PG Credit
IMES11111 20 credits
Turkish 1B for PG Credit
IMES11112 20 credits
Turkish 2A for PG Credit
IMES11113 20 credits
Turkish 2B for PG Credit
IMES11114 20 credits
Elementary Latin (PG) 1
PGHC11086 20 credits
Elementary Latin (PG) 2
PGHC11087 20 credits
Elementary Greek (PG) 1
PGHC11088 20 credits
Elementary Greek (PG) 2
PGHC11089 20 credits
Intermediate Latin (PG) 1
PGHC11267 20 credits
Intermediate Latin (PG) 2
PGHC11268 20 credits
Intermediate Greek (PG) 1
PGHC11269 20 credits
Intermediate Greek (PG) 2
PGHC11270 20 credits
AND

Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies online courses

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These courses are taught online and are prioritised for students taking an online degree, limited numbers of places may be available to on-campus students.

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

PLEASE NOTE: There are no relevant online courses running this year
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