📖Program Curriculum
You study a set number of optional 20-credit modules before undertaking either a 60-credit practice-based dissertation project or a 60-credit written dissertation project. Modules include options in ancient history, ancient Egyptian culture, Welsh identities, museum practice and a work placement.
Year 1 (Level 7T)
FHEQ 7 Taught Masters / PGDip / PGCert
Students choose 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code
Debates and Approaches in Heritage and Public History September-January 20 HIHM01
Heritage Work Placement January-June 20 HIHM04
Optional Modules
Optional Module Choices
Choose Exactly 80 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : Select 2 x modules in each teaching block. You may take ONE research methodologies module only (HI-M01, CL-M08). If you wish to pursue Latin select CL-M12A and you will be placed in the appropriate class. CL-M13A in semester 2 requires CL-M12A in semester 1.
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Research Methodologies in Ancient History September-January 20 CL-M08
Heritage, Law and Conflict. September-January 20 CL-M103
Postgraduate Beginning Latin I September-January 20 CL-M12A
Society-Environment Relations September-January 20 GEGM28
Crisis and Global Change September-January 20 GEGM29
Historical Methods and Approaches September-January 20 HI-M01
From Princely Possessions to Public Museums: A History of Collecting and Display September-January 20 HI-M53
Wales since 1945 September-January 20 HI-M70
The Normans in Western Europe and the Mediterranean: Memory, Identity and Diaspora, c.900-1150 September-January 20 HI-M79
Reading Medieval Manuscripts September-January 20 HIMM00
Introduction to Advanced Medieval Studies 1: Skills and Approaches September-January 20 HIMM01
Word, Metaphor, Allegory: Effective Models of Reality January-June 20 CL-M00
Postgraduate Beginning Latin II January-June 20 CL-M13A You must have completed CL-M12a to take this module.
Saints and Sinners in Christian Late Antiquity January-June 20 CL-M78
The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, Textuality and Objects January-June 20 EN-M77
Themes in History January-June 20 HI-M38
Communicating the Past: Public History using Historic Collections January-June 20 HI-M77
Feminism and Queer Activism in Postwar Britain January-June 20 HI-M82
Introduction to Advanced Medieval Studies 2: Themes and Sources January-June 20 HIMM04
Year 2 (Level 7D)
FHEQ 7 Taught Masters Dissertation
Students must choose between 80 and 120 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
None found.
Optional Modules
Dissertation Module
Choose Exactly 60 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE : Select 1 of the following
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Heritage Dissertation (Practice-Based) June-September 60 HIHD00
Heritage Dissertation (Written) June-September 60 HIHD01
AND
Choose Exactly 60 credits from the following Modules:
Module Name Module Duration Credits Module Code Guidance
Appalachian State University (Semester of Study Abroad) September-January 60 HIHM06
