DPT: Archaeology and Ancient History MA (Hons) (UTMAHARANH1F)

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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

Course options

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

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

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.

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

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

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, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B; and
(iii) passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Ancient History 2A and Ancient History 2B.

Entry to honours in Archaeology remains at the discretion of the Head of Archaeology in the light of performance across all courses.

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

Archaeology in Practice

Course options

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

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

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

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Greek History Seminar 2

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Marine Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

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

Troy after the Fall

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

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

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

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

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

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

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

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Greek History Seminar 2

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Marine Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

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

Troy after the Fall

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

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

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.

Course options

Archaeology Dissertation

Classics Dissertation

AND

Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.

Students who were abroad in Year 3 may be required to take Archaeology in Practice and/or Theoretical Archaeology. Please contact the Erasmus/International Officer for Archaeology.

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 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)