Degree Regulations & Programmes Of Study 2017/2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

All First year students should make an appointment with their Personal Tutor during Induction Week. Please consider the following courses, and take a draft plan to your meeting.

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

Compulsory courses

The Historian's Toolkit

Course options

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

OR

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

OR

Greek 1C

Greek 1D

OR

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

OR

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

AND

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

The Making of the United States

AND

You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

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

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

This information is correct for students in year 2 in session 17/18. Students entering year 2 in session 18/19 will be required to take Introduction to Historiography.

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

Course options

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

OR

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

OR

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

Greek 2A

Latin 2A

AND

Students are strongly encouraged to take Introduction to Historiography.

Modern United States History

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

Introduction to Historiography

AND

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

AND

You may not choose History (course codes starting HIST and ECSH) as part of this option.

Year 3 Academic year: 2017/18, 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 and in 40 credits of second year Classics courses.

During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff 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

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

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

Modern Jewish History: Experiences and Agency in Central and Eastern Europe

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

Politics and Culture in the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918

Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea

A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

Scotland and the Great War

The Scottish Enlightenment: Origins, Contexts and Ideas

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

The Emperor Nero

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

The New Testament and Graeco-Roman Culture

The Athenian Akropolis

Roman Architecture

History in Practice

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Approaching Alexander the Great: History, Themes and Traditions

The Legendary Afterlives of Alexander the Great

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Didactic Poetry

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Greek Language (A)

Latin Language (A)

Year 4 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff 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

Classics Dissertation

History Dissertation

AND

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

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

The American Civil War: History and Memory

Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800

British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945

The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present

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

The Lands Between: Eastern Europe from the Partitions of Poland to the Fall of Communism

Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds

British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832

Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000

The European Witch-Hunt

Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century

AND

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Custodians of Empire: The Praetorian Guard

The Emperor Nero

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

The New Testament and Graeco-Roman Culture

The Athenian Akropolis

Roman Architecture

History in Practice

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Approaching Alexander the Great: History, Themes and Traditions

The Legendary Afterlives of Alexander the Great

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Didactic Poetry

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Greek Language (B)

Latin Language (B)