DPT: Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCLATEA1P)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

1. Students take one compulsory course, 40 credits of skills courses and 60 credits of specialist option courses, together with the MSc Dissertation over the duration of their part-time degree.
2.Courses will run in either Semester 1 or Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary.

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

Course options

This compulsory course must be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Approaches to the Long Late Antiquity

AND

Students must take a paired set of these language courses which must be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2 of this degree.

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

Arabic 1a for PG Credit

Arabic 1b for PG Credit

Arabic 2a for PG Credit

Arabic 2b for PG Credit

Persian 1A for PG Credit

Persian 1B for PG Credit

Persian 2A for PG Credit

Persian 2B for PG Credit

Turkish 1A for PG Credit

Turkish 1B for PG Credit

Turkish 2A for PG Credit

Turkish 2B for PG Credit

Elementary Latin (PG) 1

Elementary Latin (PG) 2

Elementary Greek (PG) 1

Elementary Greek (PG) 2

Intermediate Latin (PG) 1

Intermediate Latin (PG) 2

Intermediate Greek (PG) 1

Intermediate Greek (PG) 2

AND

Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

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

The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1 will be: "The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)"
The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2 will be: "Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, 717-841"

Science, Sorcery and Wonder in Islam (PG)

Introducing Classical Syriac (PG)

Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval

Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

The History and Culture of Iran

A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1

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

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

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

Islamic Philosophy

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

MSc Dissertation in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

Must be taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

This compulsory course must be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Approaches to the Long Late Antiquity

AND

Arabic 1a for PG Credit

Arabic 1b for PG Credit

Arabic 2a for PG Credit

Arabic 2b for PG Credit

Persian 1A for PG Credit

Persian 1B for PG Credit

Persian 2A for PG Credit

Persian 2B for PG Credit

Turkish 1A for PG Credit

Turkish 1B for PG Credit

Turkish 2A for PG Credit

Turkish 2B for PG Credit

Elementary Latin (PG) 1

Elementary Latin (PG) 2

Elementary Greek (PG) 1

Elementary Greek (PG) 2

Intermediate Latin (PG) 1

Intermediate Latin (PG) 2

Intermediate Greek (PG) 1

Intermediate Greek (PG) 2

AND

1. Students take a total of 60 credits of these specialist option courses over the duration of their degree.
2. Further to discussion with the Programme Director a student may also choose an option from the suite of level 11 courses offered by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology or from other Schools.

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

The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1 will be: "The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)"
The subject of A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 2 will be: "Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, 717-841"

Science, Sorcery and Wonder in Islam (PG)

Introducing Classical Syriac (PG)

Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval

Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

The History and Culture of Iran

A Topic in Late Antique and Byzantine History 1

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

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

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

Islamic Philosophy

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