DPT: Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations (MA Hons) (UTACMME)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: September

All first year students should make an appointment with their Personal Tutor during Induction Week. Please consider your outside course options from the list of course options indicated below, and take a draft plan to your meeting with your Personal Tutor.

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

20 credits should be taken in Semester 1 and 20 credits in Semester 2.

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor to confirm your course choices and attendance.

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%

Course options

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

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

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2022/23, 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 two 2nd level Classics courses.

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

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

Compulsory courses

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Course options

Archaeological Illustration

Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists

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

Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past

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

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Marine Archaeology

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

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

AND

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

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

After Alexander

Ancient Greek Slavery

Sparta and Crete: Classical Greek Society Beyond Athens

Roman Judaea

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

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

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Near East and Egypt

The Near East from Justinian to the Fall of the Umayyads

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Piecing Together the Cultural Fragments of Ionia (Archaic Period)

Troy after the Fall

Changing Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Year 4 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance. The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Selected courses must be taken during Full Year

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 on this degree programme cannot take 'Archaeology in Practice' or 'Theoretical Archaeology' from this grouping.

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the western Mediterranean from Malta to Minorca

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists