- HTA-2111: Ancestral Landscapes (20) (Semester 1)
1. Introduction and the chronology of later prehistoric Britain and Ireland
2. Mesolithic background and the nature of hunter-gatherers
3. The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition
4. The environment, forest clearances and the role of cereals and meat in Neolithic diets
5. Settlements, houses and mobility
6. Neolithic material culture: pottery, stone tools, axes and flint mines
7: Places for the ancestors: the role of the dead in Neolithic society
8. Monuments 1: chambered tombs
9. Monuments 2: causewayed enclosures
10. Monuments 3: cursus, henges and stone circles
11. Theory 1: Prehistoric landscapes, phenomenology and experience
12. Theory 2: The natural world: natural places and human-animal relations
13. Ireland: a case study
14. Early Bronze Age: Introduction
15. Places for the dead: Earlier Bronze Age burial and ceremony
16. Early Bronze Age: elements of continuity, elements of change
17. Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age transition
18: Dividing the land: Later Bronze Age Settlement
19. Later Bronze Age burial and ceremony
20. The production and consumption of prestige goods
21. Regional archaeologies?
22. Revision session
- HTA-2114: Experimental Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
1. Introduction: experimental archaeology today and its links with ethnoarchaeology
2. The history of experimental archaeology
3. Experiment by design: designing experiments, recording data and methodology
4. Prehistoric metallurgical practices: copper and bronze production
5. Stone and flint technologies; production and use-wear analysis
6. Prehistoric metallurgical practices: iron production
7. Food production: cooking with stone and food storage pits
8. Making prehistoric roundhouses
9. Cremation pyres: a case study on Early Bronze Age practices
10. Taphonomies: understanding the formation of the archaeological record through experimental archaeology
11. Experiencing experiments and materials; revision lecture
- HTA-2117: Roman Frontier Society (20) (Semester 2)
One of the key themes of this module is the interaction between the Roman army and native populations, and the subsequent evolution of distinct frontier societies. Contextualisation will be central to the investigation of the archaeology. Examination of material evidence from military and civilian sites will include settlement, burial and environmental evidence. Iconographic and epigraphic evidence will also be examined, as will contemporary written sources (e.g. the Vindolanda letters). Key issues explored will centre on continuity and change, and topics will include syncretism and native resistance. The history of Roman scholarship and its influence on perceptions of frontier life forms an important aspect of this course, with particular emphasis given to current post-colonial approaches.
- HTA-2118: Field Archaeology in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
Lectures
1. Course introduction: outline of course aims, content, assessment.
2. Research designs and regional sampling.
3. Desk-based research: (using HERs, literature searches (including grey literature), accessing aerial photographs, historical documents, place name research, map regression analysis).
4. Surveying upstanding monuments: building recording; setting up a site grid (EDM and tapes); surveying earthworks; fieldwalking strategies.
5. Geophysical surveys: magnetometer, resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, GPR
6. Setting up an archaeological excavation: SMCs, landowner permissions, logistics, sampling strategy, schedule.
7. Doing an excavation: excavation techniques: dryland, wetland, contexts
8. Doing an excavation: recording techniques (planning, section drawing, small finds)
9. Doing an excavation: sampling strategies (soil samples, dating samples)
10. Excavating human remains
11. Planning post-excavation analyses and presenting sites to the public: the importance of outreach
Workshops
1. Interpreting aerial photography and geophysical surveys: formation processes, site and landscape stratigraphy, plotting data
2. Making maps (downloading data from Edina, Illustration, plotting data)
3. Designing an excavation strategy for three different case-study sites
4. Environmental soil sampling; sorting of soil residues (course residues) and presentation and analysis of data
5. Interpreting archaeological field illustrations (e.g. sections and plans); site formation processes and stratigraphy; writing stratigraphic reports
Fieldtrips
1. Using the HER and grey literature searches: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (2 hours)
1. Setting up a site grid and surveying upstanding remains (5 hours)
2. Building recording (3 hours)
- HTH-2124: Heritage and Identity (20) (Semester 2)
Individual, group, local, regional, national and global identities; museums; political and cultural role of archaeology and history, the heritage in minority groups, the heritage of elites, oral culture, heritage and the nation state, the creation of heritage-based identities in past societies.
- HPS-2001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) neu
HAC-2001: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-2002: Addysg yn y Gymru Gyfoes (20) (Semester 1)
- HGW-2003: Re-igniting the Dragon (20) (Semester 2) neu
HGC-2003: Ail Danio'r Ddraig (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2005: Work Placement - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2) neu
HAC-2005: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- HAC-2009: Cymdeithas, Iaith a Phrotest (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2011: Paradoxes of Self: Nietz./Jung (20) (Semester 1)
- HCH-2050: Debating History (20) (Semester 1)
The first part of the course is concerned with the use of the past made by historians and commentators such as politicians, the way traditions are invented (and destroyed), and introduces the different historiographical schools. The second part covers some historiographical (ie. concerned with the art of writing history) issues with emphasis on the various ideas about the study and writing of history which have developed over the last two centuries and which students need to understand in order to engage confidently with the different approaches which professional historians take to their work. This is taught through a case-study approach where students can apply the different approaches studied in the first part of the course to specific controversial historical subjects. The course will cover the following topics: Whig and Tory history, Ranke, the professionalisation of the study of history, nations, empire, structuralism, post-structuralism, revisionism, counter-factual history, case studies may change from year to year but will include topics such as The Peasants’ Revolt, The English civil war, the outbreak of world war one; suffrage, consumerism, the Welsh in history, the Reformation. American Civil war, Cold War; Oral history; National identity.
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HCG-2011: Dehongli'r Gorffennol (20) (Semester 1) Er y byddir yn rhoi peth sylw i rai o haneswyr mawr y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg – fel Ranke, Macaulay a Marx – bydd pwyslais y cwrs ar hanesyddiaeth yr ugeinfed ganrif. Canolbwyntir gan hynny ar feddylwyr a thueddiadau allweddol ym maes hanesyddiaeth yn ystod y ganrif ddiwethaf gan astudio enghreifftiau penodol o gynnyrch y meddylwyr a’r ysgolion dan sylw. Ymysg y pynciau a astudir bydd Ysgol yr Annales, Hanesyddiaeth Farcsaidd, Hanes Merched, Hanes Llafar, a her syniadaeth ôl-strwythurol ac ôl-fodern. Neulltuir yn ogystal ddwy ddarlith i drafod agweddau ar Hanesyddiaeth Cymru yn y cyfnod diweddar.
- HTA-2111: Ancestral Landscapes (20) (Semester 1)
1. Introduction and the chronology of later prehistoric Britain and Ireland
2. Mesolithic background and the nature of hunter-gatherers
3. The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition
4. The environment, forest clearances and the role of cereals and meat in Neolithic diets
5. Settlements, houses and mobility
6. Neolithic material culture: pottery, stone tools, axes and flint mines
7: Places for the ancestors: the role of the dead in Neolithic society
8. Monuments 1: chambered tombs
9. Monuments 2: causewayed enclosures
10. Monuments 3: cursus, henges and stone circles
11. Theory 1: Prehistoric landscapes, phenomenology and experience
12. Theory 2: The natural world: natural places and human-animal relations
13. Ireland: a case study
14. Early Bronze Age: Introduction
15. Places for the dead: Earlier Bronze Age burial and ceremony
16. Early Bronze Age: elements of continuity, elements of change
17. Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age transition
18: Dividing the land: Later Bronze Age Settlement
19. Later Bronze Age burial and ceremony
20. The production and consumption of prestige goods
21. Regional archaeologies?
22. Revision session
- HGH-2112: Civil War: Eng & Wal 1558-1660 (20) (Semester 2)
The course concentrates upon political and religious history - but social, cultural, economic and intellectual aspects are also considered where they are relevant to the core of the course. Major topics explored include:
The ‘crisis’ of the 1590s; The impact of the arrival of the Stuart dynasty; Divisions in English Protestantism; Charles I’s Personal Rule, and the outbreak of civil war; The course of the conflict, and attempts at a settlement; The reasons for the regicide; The English Republic and the restoration, 1649-1660
- HTA-2114: Experimental Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
1. Introduction: experimental archaeology today and its links with ethnoarchaeology
2. The history of experimental archaeology
3. Experiment by design: designing experiments, recording data and methodology
4. Prehistoric metallurgical practices: copper and bronze production
5. Stone and flint technologies; production and use-wear analysis
6. Prehistoric metallurgical practices: iron production
7. Food production: cooking with stone and food storage pits
8. Making prehistoric roundhouses
9. Cremation pyres: a case study on Early Bronze Age practices
10. Taphonomies: understanding the formation of the archaeological record through experimental archaeology
11. Experiencing experiments and materials; revision lecture
- HTA-2117: Roman Frontier Society (20) (Semester 2)
One of the key themes of this module is the interaction between the Roman army and native populations, and the subsequent evolution of distinct frontier societies. Contextualisation will be central to the investigation of the archaeology. Examination of material evidence from military and civilian sites will include settlement, burial and environmental evidence. Iconographic and epigraphic evidence will also be examined, as will contemporary written sources (e.g. the Vindolanda letters). Key issues explored will centre on continuity and change, and topics will include syncretism and native resistance. The history of Roman scholarship and its influence on perceptions of frontier life forms an important aspect of this course, with particular emphasis given to current post-colonial approaches.
- HGH-2118: The United States, 1877-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
This course module is designed to provide a general but comprehensive introduction to the major themes and events of American History from 1877-1945. Topics covered include: Progressivism; the 'Incorporation' of America and the rise of big business; immigration and migration; the birth of American foreign policy; the First World War; America in the 1920s; the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression; Pearl Harbour and the Second World War.
- HTA-2118: Field Archaeology in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
Lectures
1. Course introduction: outline of course aims, content, assessment.
2. Research designs and regional sampling.
3. Desk-based research: (using HERs, literature searches (including grey literature), accessing aerial photographs, historical documents, place name research, map regression analysis).
4. Surveying upstanding monuments: building recording; setting up a site grid (EDM and tapes); surveying earthworks; fieldwalking strategies.
5. Geophysical surveys: magnetometer, resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, GPR
6. Setting up an archaeological excavation: SMCs, landowner permissions, logistics, sampling strategy, schedule.
7. Doing an excavation: excavation techniques: dryland, wetland, contexts
8. Doing an excavation: recording techniques (planning, section drawing, small finds)
9. Doing an excavation: sampling strategies (soil samples, dating samples)
10. Excavating human remains
11. Planning post-excavation analyses and presenting sites to the public: the importance of outreach
Workshops
1. Interpreting aerial photography and geophysical surveys: formation processes, site and landscape stratigraphy, plotting data
2. Making maps (downloading data from Edina, Illustration, plotting data)
3. Designing an excavation strategy for three different case-study sites
4. Environmental soil sampling; sorting of soil residues (course residues) and presentation and analysis of data
5. Interpreting archaeological field illustrations (e.g. sections and plans); site formation processes and stratigraphy; writing stratigraphic reports
Fieldtrips
1. Using the HER and grey literature searches: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (2 hours)
1. Setting up a site grid and surveying upstanding remains (5 hours)
2. Building recording (3 hours)
- HTA-2120: Rethinking Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
Lectures
1. The origins of archaeological theory
2. The ‘New Archaeology’ and post processualism
3. Marxist and structuralist approaches in archaeology
4. The post-processualist critique
5. Multi disciplinary approaches to the archaeological record
6. The archaeology of people and social relations
7. Towards an archaeology of gender
8. Approaches to the study and interpretation of material culture
9. Contemporary approaches to archaeological landscapes
10. Understanding the built environment
11. The archaeology of ritual and religion
12. Archaeology in theory and in practice
Seminars
1. The identification of cultural groups from archaeological evidence
2. The loss of innocence and the development of the ‘New Archaeology’
3. Symbolic and structural archaeology
4. Re-constructing an interpretive archaeology
5. Social evolution and cognitive archaeology
6. How were past societies organised?
7. Representing gender in the archaeological past
8. Art or artefact: key debates in material culture studies
9. Experiencing the past: a phenomenology of landscape
10. House form and culture
11. What is ritual and religion and can we identify them in the archaeological record?
12. Critical approaches to archaeological fieldwork
- HTC-2123: Owain Glyndwr a'i Fudiad (20) (Semester 2)
Yn unol â¿r amcanion a nodir uchod, bydd y themau a ganlyn yn cael eu trafod:
1. Beth ddigwyddodd rhwng 1400-1421? ¿ Cwrs y Gwrthryfel
2. Glynd¿r y dyn ¿ yr arweinydd a¿r arwr
3. Rhesymau dros wrthryfel ¿ i Cymru¿r drefedigaeth wedi 1282; ii Cymru a thrychinebau¿r bedwaredd ganrif ar ddeg; iii Anawsterau¿r Eglwys; iv Uchelwyr a gwerin
4. Cenedligrwydd a gwleidyddiaeth ar droad y bymthegfed ganrif.
5. Propaganda a phrydyddion ¿ y bardd yn y gymdeithas Gymreig.
6. Gwladwriaeth Gymreig y bymthegfed ganrif ¿ breuddwyd gwrach?
7. Cynlluniau¿r mudiad ar gyfer Cymru a¿i phobl ¿ Senedd, Addysg ac Eglwys
8. Cwymp y mudiad
9. Cymru wedi¿r cwymp
- HTH-2124: Heritage and Identity (20) (Semester 2)
Individual, group, local, regional, national and global identities; museums; political and cultural role of archaeology and history, the heritage in minority groups, the heritage of elites, oral culture, heritage and the nation state, the creation of heritage-based identities in past societies.
- HGH-2127: Europe, Early Middle Ages (20) (Semester 1)
1. The fall of the western Roman empire; 2. The foundation of the `barbarian¿ kingdoms; 3. Merovingians and Carolingians; 4. Charlemagne; 5. The papacy and monasticism; 6. Justinian and the Byzantine revival; 7. Culture and society; 8. Towns and economy; 9. The Vikings and the foundation of Normandy; 10. The birth of Islam and the creation of the caliphate of Cordoba. Students taking the course will study these topics using both primary sources (such as Gregory of Tours, Paul the Deacon, Einhard¿s Life of Charlemagne) and the modern historiography.
- HTC-2128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 2)
Bydd y modiwl yn edrych ar y themâu canlynol:
1. Cefndir a chyd-destun hanesyddiaethol; 2. Gwreiddiau cestyll y cyfnod; 3. Cestyll a chrefft rhyfela yn y cyfnod; 4. Castell pawb ei dŷ: cestyll fel cartrefi ac anheddau; 5. Astudiaeth achos 1: Cestyll y Croesgadwyr 1098-1291; 6. Cestyll y dychymyg a’r delfryd sifalrig; 7. Astudiaeth achos 2: Cestyll yng Nghymru 1063-1415; 8. Tirlun a phensaernïaeth gastellog; 9. Cestyll a chartrefi caerog yr Oesau Canol Diweddar; 10. Machlud Cestyll yr Oesau Canol?
Ceir cyfle yn ystod y seminarau i archwilio’r themâu hyn ymhellach.
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HTH-2157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 2) This module explores the following themes:
1. Introduction: From the ‘Castle Story’ to Current Thinking; 2. The Origin of the Castle; 3. ‘The King of the Castle’: Great Towers and Keeps; 4. ‘An Englishman’s Home is his Castle’?: The Castle as Lordly Residence; 5. The Castles of the Crusaders 1098-1291; 6. Castles and the Chivalric Ideal; 7. The Castles of Wales 1066-1415; 8. Castles and Elite Landscapes; 9. The Decline of the Castle?; 10. Romantic Ruins? Artists, Poets and the Heritage Industry
You will be given an opportunity to focus in-depth on these themes and on the underpinning primary sources in your seminars.
- HGH-2135: Victorian Britain 1837-1901 (20) (Semester 2)
(1) Victorian values
(2) Economy, industry and work
(3) Popular culture and leisure
(4) Medicine and science
(5) Technological developments
(6) Poverty and crime
(7) Votes for women
(8) Eclipse of the elites
(9) The British Empire
(10) Shadows of war
(11) Concluding lecture
- HGH-2138: Europe 1945-1992 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2142: Americanisation (20) (Semester 2)
This module examines American impacts on the rest of the world - in particular Europe - and addresses reactions to these focused by a critical approach to the concepts 'Americanisation' and 'Anti-Americanism'. In particular:
. Attraction and resistance: ambivalences of Americanisation
. Images and enemy images
. The reciprocity of transatlantic cultural transfers
. Anti-Americanism as a projection
. Anti-Americanism in the inter-war period
. Nazi Germany and America
. GIs as agents of Americanisation
. Americanisation and Sovietisation
. Anti-American propaganda in the Cold War
. The anti-Americanism of the New Left
. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism
. Shopping mall, Disneyland and theme park in Europe
- HTH-2149: Britannia Rule the Waves (20) (Semester 1)
(1) Introduction to the module, British Empire and Imperial Studies
(2) Governing the Empire
(3) British Policy and Trade
(4) Technological Change
(5) Scientific Exploration
(6) The Empire: Asia
(7) The Empire: America
(8) The Empire: Africa
(9) The Empire: Australasia
(10) The British Empire and the Approach of War
(11) Concluding lecture
- HTC-2156: Rhyfel Cartref America (20) (Semester 1)
Y Gogledd a’r De
Gwleidyddiaeth yr 1850au
Caethwasiaeth
Achosion y Rhyfel a’r Argyfwng Arwahanu
Ymladd y Rhyfel
Abraham Lincoln
Y Cymry a’r Rhyfel
Y Rhyfel a’r Gorllewin
Rhyddhau’r Caethweision
Ennill y Rhyfel
Adluniad a’i Fethiant
- HTH-2157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 2)
This module explores the following themes:
1. Introduction: From the ‘Castle Story’ to Current Thinking; 2. The Origin of the Castle; 3. ‘The King of the Castle’: Great Towers and Keeps; 4. ‘An Englishman’s Home is his Castle’?: The Castle as Lordly Residence; 5. The Castles of the Crusaders 1098-1291; 6. Castles and the Chivalric Ideal; 7. The Castles of Wales 1066-1415; 8. Castles and Elite Landscapes; 9. The Decline of the Castle?; 10. Romantic Ruins? Artists, Poets and the Heritage Industry
You will be given an opportunity to focus in-depth on these themes and on the underpinning primary sources in your seminars.
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HTC-2128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 2) Bydd y modiwl yn edrych ar y themâu canlynol:
1. Cefndir a chyd-destun hanesyddiaethol; 2. Gwreiddiau cestyll y cyfnod; 3. Cestyll a chrefft rhyfela yn y cyfnod; 4. Castell pawb ei dŷ: cestyll fel cartrefi ac anheddau; 5. Astudiaeth achos 1: Cestyll y Croesgadwyr 1098-1291; 6. Cestyll y dychymyg a’r delfryd sifalrig; 7. Astudiaeth achos 2: Cestyll yng Nghymru 1063-1415; 8. Tirlun a phensaernïaeth gastellog; 9. Cestyll a chartrefi caerog yr Oesau Canol Diweddar; 10. Machlud Cestyll yr Oesau Canol?
Ceir cyfle yn ystod y seminarau i archwilio’r themâu hyn ymhellach.
- HTH-2163: Nazi Germany 1933-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2164: Violence in Early Mod Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2301: 20th Century Phil of Religion (20) (Semester 2)
The module begins by clarifying the state of the analytic philosophy of religion at the turn of the 20th century, reflecting upon its inheritance of 19th century ‘modernity’. This is contrasted with some concurrent developments in the continental tradition (German Romanticism, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche). This is the context from which, and into which, Wittgenstein speaks. We will cover the early, middle, and late eras of Wittgenstein’s thought, and show the revolutionary impact that his thought had for the philosophy of religion. We track the various directions in which Wittgenstein’s influence was felt; for example, in A. J. Ayer’s verificationism, or those overtly ‘Wittgensteinian’ philosophers of religion such as D. Z. Phillips. The ‘meta-philosophy of religion’ is introduced throughout, as we tackle the question of how best to philosophise about religion.
- Students choose 60 credits of modules: they do not have to take Dehongli'r Gorffennol/Debating History but it does remain an option. Students must take at least one general module (code beginning HGH/HGC/HGW) over levels 5 and 6 as a whole
