History
History
Overview
Discover our range of History modules for 2020-21. Please note: these modules reflect revisions following the University’s Education Resilience Framework in response to Covid-19.
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The range of modules offered may change each academic year.
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Further information
For further information about this subject, including any pre-requisites, visit the History subject page.
You can also contact your Subject Adviser.
Stage 1
Find out about History modules for Stage 1.
Students study either 40 or 60 credits from the list below in Stage 1.
Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.
All Students are required to take the following compulsory module:
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS1100 | Evidence and Argument | 20 | 1 |
Students can either pick one further module (if studying a total of 40 credits of History) or two further modules (if studying a total of 60 credits of History) from the following list:
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCA1002 | Big History: From the Big Bang to Climate Change | 20 | 1 |
| HCA1003 | Global Middle Ages | 20 | 2 |
| HCA1007 | Stuff: Living in a Material World | 20 | 2 |
| HCA1008 | Global Ancient Histories | 20 | 1 |
| HIS1101 | Historical Sources and Methods | 20 | 2 |
| HIS1102 | History Lab I | 20 | 1 |
| HIS1103 | Histroy Lab II | 20 | 2 |
| HIS1104 | Public History | 20 | 2 |
| HIS1105 | What is History For? | 20 | 1 |
Stage 2
Find out about History modules for Stage 2.
Students study either 40, 60 or 80 credits from the list below in Stage 2.
Select the module code for specific module information including the module summary and aims, knowledge and skills you'll gain, and the module leader.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA2011 | Prehistoric Europe | 20 | 2 |
| ARA2016 | Aegean Prehistory | 20 | 2 |
| ARA2091 | Archaeology of Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian | 20 | 1 |
| ARA2097 | Historical Archaelology of the Modern World (post 1492) | 20 | 2 |
| CAH2006 | Hellenistic Empires from Alexander to Cleopatra | 20 | 1 |
| CAH2007 | Caesar's Gift: Rome under the Emperors | 20 | 2 |
| CAH2020 | Greek and Roman Religion | 20 | 1 |
| CAH2061 | Slavery in Greco-Roman Antiquity | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2002 | Fatal Allies: Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2012 | Clash of Civilizations: Islam, the Crusades, and the Mongol invasions (c. 750-1300) | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2027 | Afrca: History of a Continent | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2031 | Between Revolutions: Britian 1688-1789 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2072 | Anglo-Saxon England: From Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, 410-1066 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2084 | Europe's Reformations | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2085 | Pre-Columbian and Spanish America | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2086 | Twentieth Century France 1914-1995 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2095 | Social Histories of Alcohol: Britain and Ireland, 1700-Present | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2104 | The Dark Ages: The Post-Roman World, 500-700 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2114 | Death, Dying & the Dead in Early Modern England, 1500-1832 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2124 | A History of Contemporary Britain | 20 |
1 |
| HIS2131 | American Slavery, American Freedom: Black and White America in the Age of Revolutions | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2133 | Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s-1947 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2138 | China's Last Empire | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2140 | Survey History of Japan | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2170 | The History of New Orleans | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2219 | Oral History and Memory | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2228 | The Habsburg Empire | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2235 | The Soviet Experiment, 1917-1991 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2237 | Irish Public Histories: Commemoration, Digistation and the Politics of the Past in Ireland | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2239 | Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in Egypt and Sudan | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2241 | The History of Modern Germany, 1806 until today | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2250 | The Scientific Revolution: Transformations in Knowledge, 1500-1700 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS2252 | A History of Aotearoa and New Zealand to the 1920s | 20 | 2 |
| HIS2259 | The Russian Empire from Peter the Great to Lenin | 20 | 2 |
| LAS2030 | Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: from Independence to the Mexican Revolution (1789/1810-1917) | 20 | 1 |
Stage 3
Find out about History modules for Stage 3.
ALL STAGE 3 HIS MODULES ARE CAPPED AT 20 APART FROM HIS3000, HIS3020 and HIS3030 WHICH ARE NOT CAPPED
Students are allowed to take a maximum of two specialist subject modules; one in each Semester. Students studying 60 or 80 credits in History can do so by taking two special subject modules (one in each Semester) plus non-specialist modules that are not capped i.e. HIS3000, HIS3020 and HIS3030, or the ARA, CAH and LAS modules from the list below.
At module pre-registration in the spring, students do not select their two specialist subject modules on S3P. Instead they pre-register for substitute modules on S3P (listed below) and then submit their preferences for their specialist subject module(s) (in ranked order) using a separate web based form (the link for which will be circulated).
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS0001 | Semester 1 substitute for stage 3 HIS capped special subject | 20 | 1 |
| HIS0002 | Semester 2 substitute for stage 3 HIS capped special subject | 20 | 2 |
Students who select BOTH substitute modules (i.e. HIS0001 and HIS0002) must select 10 different modules form the list below with at least 4 from each Semester.
Students who select ONE of the substitute modules (i.e. HIS0001 OR HIS0002) must select 5 different modules from the correct Semester from the list below.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credit Value | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARA3013 | Early Medieval Northern Europe | 20 | 2 |
| ARA3016 | The Archaeology of Byzantium and its Neighbours | 20 | 1 |
| ARA3021 | Frontier Communities of Roman Britain | 20 | 1 |
| ARA3100 | Archaelogies of the Middle Sea: An Armchair Voyage Across the Prehistoric Mediterranaen | 20 | 1 |
| ARA3114 | Regionality and the Fall of Rome | 20 | 2 |
| ARA3118 | Origins and Transformations: Early Prehistoric Europe | 20 | 2 |
| ARA3121 | Sex, bodies and identities in Classical Greece | 20 | 2 |
| CAH3005 | City of Athens: Power, Society and Culture | 20 | 1 |
| CAH3025 | Celluloid History II | 20 | 1 |
| CAH3033 | The Fall of the Roman Republic | 20 | 2 |
| CAH3035 | The World of Herodotus | 20 | 2 |
| CAH3036 | Roman Egypt | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3131 | China in Revolution | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3135 | The Nazi New Order in Europe | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3203 | Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c. 1714-1830 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3212 | Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1914 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3219 | Living Together: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Iberia | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3220 | British Foreign Policy since Suez | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3222 | Jarrow Crusade | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3232 | Civil Rights and Armalites; Northern Ireland since 1969 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3235 | Genocide and Justice in the Twentieth Century: From the Armenian Genocide to the International Criminal Court | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3240 | Civil Rights in America, 1948 - 1975 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3285 | Post-Revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3295 | Royal Portraits: Christian Kings and Kingship, c.870 - c. 930 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3321 | Viking-Age Scandinavia | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3326 | Women in Colonial South Asia: Tradition, Reform and Modernity | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3328 | Imagined Futures | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3330 | Islamism and It's Origins | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3331 | God's Terrible Voice: the experience and impact of Plague in England, 1500-1722 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3334 | Talking Cures and Troubles: An Oral History of Health and Medicine in Britain, c. 1948-2000 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3335 | Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1798 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3336 | Punishing the Criminal Dead: Crime, Culture, and Corpses in Modern Britain | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3337 | Russian Cities and Culture from Peter the Great to the Revolution | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3339 | The Moral Economy of Loyalty in Northern Ireland, 1921-39 – the Linen Lords and the Plebs | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3341 | Lunatic to Citizen? Madness and Society since 1900 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3344 | The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1961 - 1990 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3346 | The Rising Generation: Youth, Age and Protest in Post-War Britain | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3347 | Consuming Empire: Global Trade and the Transformation of Britain, c. 1688-1820 | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3349 | Health and disease in the Anthropocene: Intersections of human and environmental health post 1800 | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3350 | Travelling the Mediterranean: passages from antiquity to modernity | 20 | 2 |
| HIS3352 | The Renaissance World of Machiavelli, 1450-1550 | 20 | 1 |
| LAS4001 |
Inter-American Relations from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Cold War (1989/1991) |
20 | 2 |
Candidates who wish to undertake independent research in History may wish to choose one or more of the following modules (please note, these following modules are not capped):
| Module Code | Module Title | Credits | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS3000 | Reading History | 20 | 1 |
| HIS3020 | Writing History (Dissertation) | 40 | 1&2 |
| HIS3030 | History and Society | 20 | 2 |