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78 modules found

  2. AA3020 - Principles and Techniques in Archaeology
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    To be arranged
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Prof R J Sweetman

    This module, which draws on archaeological material from around the world, is divided into two sections. The first is a series of seminars and lectures on the central practical…

  3. AA4001 - Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE)
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    TBC
    Assessment
    3-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

    The evolution of cities plays a key role in our understanding of the late antique period. No longer seen as destined to decline, urban settlements underwent important…

  4. AA4121 - The Ancient City of Rome
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    TBC
    Assessment
    3-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr J C N Coulston

    This module examines the history and archaeology of the city of Rome from its earliest beginnings to the fifth century CE. Several themes are pursued, in particular the view of…

  5. AA4149 - The Archaeology of Minoan Crete
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    TBC
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 35%, Coursework = 65% (1 essay, 40%, 1 presentation, 15%, research diary, 10%)
    Coordinator
    Prof R J Sweetman

    This module examines the archaeology of Minoan Crete from its beginnings to the crisis at the end of the Late Minoan I B period and rise of the Myceneans (around 3000-1000 BCE).…

  6. AN1001 - The Greeks in a Wider World
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr S Lewis

    This module provides a wide-ranging introduction to the history and society of the ancient Greek world and to the sources (archaeological, epigraphical, literary) on which the…

  7. AN1002 - Rome and the Mediterranean
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr A B Brock

    This module traces Rome's trajectory from a small settlement in Central Italy to the centre of a Mediterranean empire. Covering a period from the earliest evidence of habitation…

  8. AN2002 - The Roman Empire
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm Tue and 4.00 pm Thu
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr J C N Coulston

    This module explores the complex history of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Late Antiquity, an empire which, for the first and last time, united the whole Mediterranean and its…

  9. AN2003 - Mediterranean Communities
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm Tue and 4.00 pm Thu
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr M L Skuse

    This module deals with the human settlement and material culture of the entire Mediterranean World throughout classical antiquity. Over its long span - that covers much of the…

  10. AN3034 - Approaches to Ancient History
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    TBC
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr R T anderson

    Antiquarians let the sources set their agenda, but historians start with questions. As a preparation for the serious study of Ancient History at honours level, this module aims to …

  11. AN4106 - Persia and the Greeks
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    TBC
    Assessment
    3-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Prof T E H Harrison

    This module looks in detail at the history of the Achaemenid Persian empire, a looming presence in Greek history, from its beginnings under Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth…