Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. Anthropology and History Full-time

Year: 3
2022/23 Session

Students must take either a 40-credit Dissertation or a 20-credit Extended Essay/Independent Study during their final year. The 40-credit Dissertation, or the 20-credit Extended Essay / Independent Study can be taken either in Anthropology, or in Classical Literature and Civilisation

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation 09 23603 40 Full Term
LH Independent Study 09 17954 20 Full Term

Students may request an exemption if they are undertaking a substantial amount of independent work on the other side of their degree programme, but no student should take less than 20 credits of independent work across their degree programme in their final year.

Students taking the 40 credit Dissertation module should choose a further 20 credits from a list of options available within the department.

Students taking the 20 credit Independent Study module should choose a further 40 credits from a list of options available within the department.

Students who are exempt from the Dissertation and Independent Study modules should choose 60 credits from a list of options available within the department.
Available optional modules may include:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 31404 20 Semester 2
LH Religion and Ritual 09 28072 20 Semester 1
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

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

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: British Women and Internationalism since 1850 A 09 30931 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Dossers: Homelessness in Modern Britain, 1900 to Present A 09 30932 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt A 09 37120 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination A 09 30927 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 A 09 30956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 A 09 37112 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities in the British World A 09 37124 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: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain A 09 30958 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A 09 31842 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain A 09 30959 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: British Women and Internationalism since 1850 B 09 31109 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Dossers: Homelessness in Modern Britain, 1900 to Present B 09 31110 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt B 09 37121 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 B 09 31113 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 B 09 37116 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities in the British World B 09 37125 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: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain B 09 31115 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich B 09 31840 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain B 09 31116 20 Semester 2

Students may also take between 0 and 40 credits from the following modules (including the Advanced Options lists) providing their total History credits add up to no more than 80. The advanced options available vary from year to year. The list below is indicative:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Joint Honours Dissertation (History) 09 23756 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27510 40 Full Term
LH Spring Advanced Option: Bread, Wine and Barricades: Freedom, Ecology and the Nature of Modern France 09 32031 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Piracy, Plunder, Peoples and Exploitation: English Exploration in the Tudor Period 09 32004 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 31016 20 Semester 2

Advanced Options

Autumn Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: A 09 35005 20 Semester 1
LH Autumn Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation 09 31864 20 Semester 1
LH Autumn Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 30987 20 Semester 1
LH Autumn Advanced Option: The Making of the British Raj: Gender, Conquest and Race in early colonial India, c.1757-1885 09 35163 20 Semester 1
LH Autumn Advanced Option: ‘Vanished: Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion’ 09 34967 20 Semester 1
LH Gender, Sexualities and Religion 09 36089 20 Semester 1
LH God Beyond Borders: Building Interfaith Bridges 09 36088 20 Semester 2
LH Historical and Contemporary Debates on the Holocaust 09 37066 20 Semester 1
LH Spring Advanced Option: Practicing Public History 09 37892 20 Semester 2
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1 or 2

Spring Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: B 09 35006 20 Semester 2
LH Contemporary Art and Home 09 30798 20 Semester 1
LH Inside Out: Interior and Interiority in French Art, Design and Culture 1840-1940 10 28862 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Body Politics 09 32002 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Bread, Wine and Barricades: Freedom, Ecology and the Nature of Modern France 09 32031 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976) 09 31020 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Piracy, Plunder, Peoples and Exploitation: English Exploration in the Tudor Period 09 32004 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Practicing Public History 09 37892 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 31016 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.