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

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, 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

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

Religion in Modern Britain

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

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 A

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

History of Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

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

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

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

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

Religion in Modern Britain

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

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 A

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

History of Science 1

History of Western Medicine

AND

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

A limited number of courses are also available in Schedules S and X.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.

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

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

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

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

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

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

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

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Tradition and transformation in China's economy, 1949-2001

Post-Colonial South Asia

Black Nationalism in America

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860

Modernity and Genocide

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

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

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

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820

Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

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

African Environmental History

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

Indigenous Peoples and U.S. History

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

History of Brazil

Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union and What Came Next, 1970-2020

Based on a True Story: Representing the Past in Museums and on Screen

The Forgotten Dictatorship: Portugal's Estado Novo, 1926-1974

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Histories of the NHS: A National Religion?

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.