Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session

B.A. History Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI History in Theory and Practice	09 39435	20	Semester 1
LI Topics in History	09 39689	20	Semester 2

Students must choose 80 credits of optional modules.

Students must choose ONE 20-credit module from each List (A-C). Students also take LI Public History unless they choose ONE 20-credit Future or Professional Skills module OR an appropriate language module in consultation with the programme lead.

Students may replace 20 or 40 credits from lists A and/or B with module(s) from outside the department from an approved list.

All optional lists are indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Students will be registered by default for LI Public History unless they choose ONE 20-credit skills module OR an appropriate language module in consultation with the programme lead.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Public History	09 30693	20	Semester 1

OR
a language module at an appropriate level. Modules offered by Languages for All (LfA) are listed on a separate specification owned by the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music OR
a Future Skills module

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Media in Practice	09 37869	20	Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy	09 37673	20	Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation.

Students undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Professional Skills	09 36839	20	Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance	09 37012	20	Semester 1

LI Optional modules List A (Semester 1): Students must choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Media in Practice	09 37869	20	Semester 1
LI Option: American Empire: The United States and the World	09 38257	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Confronting Colonialism: Histories of Empire in India and Ireland	09 38815	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Feminisms and the women’s movement in modern Britain: From suffragists to ladettes	09 38260	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Pandora’s Box: Europe and the First World War, 1900-1930	09 38265	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Revolution, Nation, and the Global South	09 38267	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100	09 38268	20	Semester 1
LI Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds	09 38272	20	Semester 1

LI Optional modules List B (Semester 2): Students must choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability. List B (Semester 2):

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Option: In the Eye of the Storm: Europe & the Second World War, 1930-1960	09 38259	20	Semester 2
LI Option: Mass Culture and the Modern United States, 1877-1939	09 38818	20	Semester 2
LI Option: State and Empire in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800	09 38269	20	Semester 2
LI Option: The Global Cold War	09 38261	20	Semester 2
LI Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History	09 38271	20	Semester 2

Research Methods Options List C: Students must choose ONE 20-credit option from the following in Semester 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Sources in History: News	09 39803	20	Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Personal Documents	09 39805	20	Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Possessions	09 39806	20	Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Texts and Tales	09 39809	20	Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take 20 or 40 credits of an approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History in place of one or two Options from Lists A and/ or B. Credits must still be evenly balanced across semesters.

Theology and Religion Department optional module available to History students. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory	09 28668	20	Semester 2

DASA Department optional modules available to History students. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
African Popular Culture	09 20436	20	Semester 1
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean	09 22695	20	Semester 2
LI Anthropology and/of Activism	09 39836	20	Semester 1
LI Anthropology of Islam	09 31886	20	Semester 2
LI Anthropology of Migration	09 31403	20	Semester 1
LI Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial	09 37918	20	Semester 1
LI Development in Africa	09 37920	20	Semester 2
LI Ethnographies of the Marginalised	09 29674	20	Semester 2
LI From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966	09 28016	20	Semester 1
LI Gender and Colonialism in African History	09 37923	20	Semester 1
LI Political Anthropology	09 35012	20	Semester 2
LI Religion and Ritual	09 28073	20	Semester 2
LI The Social Life of the Economy	09 24822	20	Semester 1
LI The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War	09 39835	20	Semester 2
LI Theory and Ethnography	09 24291	20	Semester 1