Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. History and Politics with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

History Modules:

Students must take at least 40 credits from the Special Subjects A and B lists OR the 40-credit Dissertation module listed below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Dissertation (History) 09 23756 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27510 40 Full Term

Special Subjects List of available modules change from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Special Subjects (A):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 A 09 30957 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: A 09 35001 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I A 09 37956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem A 09 30960 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: A 09 35005 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain A 09 39786 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War A 09 38880 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 B 09 31114 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: B 09 35002 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I B 09 37958 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem B 09 31117 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: B 09 35006 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain B 09 39914 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War B 09 38879 20 Semester 2

Advanced Options

Autumn Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: America at War: From the Civil War to the War on Terror 09 38799 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38888 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Britain and her Soldiers: Society and the Army from the First World War to Afghanistan 09 38800 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976) 09 38742 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 38753 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 38738 20 Semester 1
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Spring Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adv Option: Feeling Politics in 20th Century Britain: Emotions and Politics in Britain From the Stiff Upper Lip to :) 09 39784 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Black Activisms in the US South: Power, Feminisms, and Black Lives Mattering from 1960-present 09 39783 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation 09 38741 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 38746 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: History of Technology and Culture in the United States 09 38803 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: The Making of England, 850-1100 09 39785 20 Semester 2

Subject to the approval of the programme lead students may also include in their history total up to 40 credits of optional modules offered by departments other than history. Students may only take one dissertation module and their credit total must include at least one non-dissertation module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Anthropology and/of Activism 09 39832 20 Semester 1
LH Anthropology of Islam 09 31885 20 Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 31404 20 Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH Historical and Contemporary Debates on the Holocaust 09 37066 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH The Anthropology of Tomorrow 09 38811 20 Semester 2
LH The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 39831 20 Semester 2
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

Choose between 40 and 80 credits from the following. Students may only take one dissertation module and their credit total must include at least one non-dissertation module. Students are not normally permitted to take more than 40 credits of dissertation modules in total:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Modern Asia 08 19471 20 Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH China: State and Society 08 40163 20 Semester 1
LH Contemporary International Political Economy 08 20911 20 Semester 1
LH Controversies in Contemporary Democracies 08 22555 20 Semester 1
LH Dissertation 08 20905 40 Full Term
LH International Negotiation 08 37821 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH Politics of South Asia 08 40172 20 Semester 2
LH Regionalism and the Global South 08 37823 20 Semester 2
LH Social Justice and Politics 08 37824 20 Semester 1
LH Statelessness and Citizenship 08 37825 20 Semester 2
LH The Anthropology of Tomorrow 09 38811 20 Semester 2
LH The Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality 08 40167 20 Semester 1
LH The Politics of Memory 08 40165 20 Semester 1
LH The Politics of Protest and Dissent 08 37822 20 Semester 1
LH The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 39831 20 Semester 2
LH Topics in British Politics 08 20912 20 Semester 1
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2