DPT: History and History of Art (MA Hons) (UTHISHA)

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

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.

Students failing History of Art 1A: Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700 and History of Art 1B: Art at the Crossroads of World Cultures 600 to 1700 will not be allowed to progress to Year 2 unless recommended as a Special Circumstances concession from the Exam Board. Students transferring into History of Art from another programme with no prior study in History of Art may, with the permission of the History of Art UG Director, be allowed to take History of Art 1A, History of Art 1B, History of Art 2A and History of Art 2B concurrently in Year 2.

Compulsory courses

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

History of Art 1A Art and Belief in Europe, 500 to 1700

Must be passed

History of Art 1B Art at the Crossroads of World Cultures 600 to 1700

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

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

History of Art 2A Reason, Romance, Revolution: Art from 1700 to 1900

Must be passed

History of Art 2B From Modernism and the Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism and Globalisation

Must be passed

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

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)

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

Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two

Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One

AND

Select 20 credits from Level 10 courses in History of Art year 3 (available to Joint Students). Finalised list of courses will be circulated at a later date.

AND

Select up to 40 credits from Level 10 Architectural History Year 3 and 4 Courses.

AND

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

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.