DPT: History and Classics (MA Hons) (UTHISCL)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, 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.
Students must pass a minimum of 80 credits, including a pass in The Historian's Toolkit, to be eligible to progress into Year 2.

Compulsory courses

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

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

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

AND

Selected courses must be passed

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

Jesus and the Gospels

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

Global Indigenous Religions

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

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.

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, 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.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

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

Ancient Historiography

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Epic

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Latin 2A

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2A ex-beginners.

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2A ex-beginners.

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

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

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

History of the United States

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, c. 1000 - c. 1400

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

Jesus and the Gospels

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

Global Indigenous Religions

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

AND

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

You may NOT choose more than 20 credits in total of History courses (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) within this collection.

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

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, 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 Introduction to Historiography plus a further 20 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 40 credits of second year Classics courses.

The courses chosen in Years 1 and 2 will determine a student's Classics course choices at Honours level.

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.

Course options

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take the dissertation in History in 4th year.

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

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

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Post-Colonial South Asia

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Machiavelli and His World

Montaigne and the Late Renaissance

Modernity and Genocide

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

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

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Carnival in the Atlantic World: Play, Power and Politics

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

The Renaissance World of José de Acosta: Empire, Religion, and Science

The Doomed Kingdom: Power, Law and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

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

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

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

Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800

The Renaissance in Ten Recipes

The Public's Health in 19th Century America

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Scotland and the Great War

AND

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

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (A)

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

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage

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

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: Byzantium and its Neighbours in the Tenth

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

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

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Athenian Akropolis

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Roman Archaeology Seminar 1

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

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Classical Receptions

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Roman Tragedy

Reading Greek Prophecy

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

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

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

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Post-Colonial South Asia

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Machiavelli and His World

Montaigne and the Late Renaissance

Modernity and Genocide

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

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

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Carnival in the Atlantic World: Play, Power and Politics

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

The Renaissance World of José de Acosta: Empire, Religion, and Science

The Doomed Kingdom: Power, Law and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

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

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

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

Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800

The Renaissance in Ten Recipes

The Public's Health in 19th Century America

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Scotland and the Great War

AND

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

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (A)

AND

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

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage

AND

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

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: Byzantium and its Neighbours in the Tenth

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

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

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Athenian Akropolis

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Roman Archaeology Seminar 1

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

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Classical Receptions

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Roman Tragedy

Reading Greek Prophecy

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, 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.

Course options

Classics Dissertation

History Dissertation

AND

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

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to 1929

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

The American Civil Rights Movement

The Spanish Civil War

The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences

Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941

Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies

Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975

Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500

Medicine and health in the early Middle Ages

Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300

The Era of the Witness: Trauma in Contemporary History

Place and Displacement: Histories of Refugees and Humanitarianism in 20th Century Africa

Resistance, Resilience and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America

Piety, Politics, and Polemic: 'Puritanism' 1558-1660

War, Commerce, Liberty, and Empire: European Political Thought, from Mandeville to Marx (c. 1700 - c. 1850)

The Archival Turn and the Fashioning of Enlightenment, c.1690-1800

Representations of Blackness in Britain and Europe, 1800 - 1950

'Sexperts' and Scientific Publics in the Global Twentieth Century

Britons at War: The Construction of Identities in the Two World Wars

Charlemagne's Europe, c. 750 - 825

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

The Age of Revolutions in the Mediterranean, ca 1760-1860

A Global History of Law: Premodern Canons, Codes and Courts

The Stewarts: Family, Feud and Faction in a late medieval kingdom

Highland Problems,1851 to 1953

AND

1. Ancient Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Ancient Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics;
2. Ancient Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Ancient Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

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

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (B)

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics;
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

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

Latin Language (B)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage