Programme Requirements for 2021/22 Session


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B.A. Ancient and Medieval History Full-time

Year: 2
2021/22 Session

Not all modules are available every year. Choice is also subject to timetable constraint and an equal number of credits being taken in each semester.

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Research Methods A 09 33726 10 Semester 1
LI Research Methods B 09 33727 10 Semester 2

Choose one 20 credit option for each Semester from a list made available annually by the Department of History:

Spring Option:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Impressionism and After: Art and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century France 09 26713 20 Semester 2
LI Making Culture: New Ways of Reading Things 11 25412 20 Semester 2
LI Mass Culture and the Modern United States, 1877-1939 09 30049 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: "American Dreamers:" Radicalism in the United States from 1776 to present 09 32724 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: A Medical Revolution? Society, Warfare, and Disease from the Crimea to Afghanistan 09 30899 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: A World on the Move: Transport and Mobility in Global Modernity 09 31848 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: An ‘Empire of the Clouds’: Aviation, Air Power and the Making of Modern Britain, 1908–1945 09 31849 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Before Brexit: Histories of European Integration, 1945-2016 09 30902 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Childhood and Adolescence in Medieval Europe 09 32140 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Crime and Public Order in Medieval England 09 32141 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945 09 31854 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Feeding the World: International Development from Colonial Empire to Neoliberalism 09 30897 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Gender and the Making of the Modern World: Britain, 1650-1832 09 30894 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Britain in the 1980s 09 32740 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Homelessness in Britain since 1945 09 32744 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 31850 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973 09 31851 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Military Revolutions and the Conduct of War, c1300 - 1650 09 32142 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Nationalism and Conflict in the Balkans and Middle East 09 30898 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Reformation and Rebellion in Tudor England, 1500-1558 09 35169 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Sex and Sexualities in the Modern British World 09 32143 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Sex, Money and Fighting: Women and Men in Imperial China 09 30892 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Social Activism in Modern Britain 09 30906 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The British Empire: An Introduction 09 30896 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Global Cold War 09 35004 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Good War? A Cultural and Military History of Britain and the Second World War 09 30901 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Towns and Urban Life in the Middle Ages 09 30891 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 32146 20 Semester 2
Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 2
South Africa since Apartheid 09 18767 20 Semester 2

Autumn Option:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: A Common Enemy: Witchcraft and Witch-hunting Early Modern Europe 09 31844 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: America in Conflict 09 30880 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: An ‘Empire of the Clouds’: Aviation, Air Power and the Making of Modern Britain, 1908–1945 09 31845 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 30854 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Childhood and Adolescence in Medieval Europe 09 30849 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Crime and Public Order in Late Medieval Europe 09 30852 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Diet for a Small Planet? Global Food Politics from Colonial Empire to Neoliberalism 09 32144 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Britain in the 1980s 09 32145 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Islamicate Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals in the Early Modern World 09 32134 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: John Bull against Napoleon: Fighting the French 1793-1815 09 30878 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973 09 31846 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Military Revolutions and the Conduct of War, 1300-1500 09 30856 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Nationalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1914 09 30879 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Past Politics / Present History: Across The Boundaries of History and Political Science 09 31847 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Prophets, Rulers and Rebels of Early Islam 09 30848 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Reformation and Rebellion in Tudor England, 1500-1558 09 30855 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 09 32692 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The British Empire: An Introduction 09 30857 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War 09 35003 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Stuff of History: Cotton, Oil, Gold – Towards a Resource History of Global Modernity 09 30889 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds. 09 34998 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 30882 20 Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War 10 30805 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 1
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2
LI The Sixties: “Years of Hope, Days of Rage” 09 30040 20 Semester 1
LI US Political and Social History 1890-1980 09 29069 20 Semester 1

Students choose 60 credits from the full range of CAHA LI Research Seminars and options including the appropriate level of language (beginners or intermediate or advanced Latin, Greek, Egyptian or Akkadian). If a Research Seminar A and B is selected in semester one this has to be matched with Research Seminar B in semester two. There will be a narrow choice of recommended modules aimed and ensuring core skills and curriculum coherence is maintained.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Seminar A: Roman Society and Internal Conflict 09 34116 10 Semester 1
LH Seminar B: Roman Society and Internal Conflict 09 34117 10 Semester 2
LI Advanced Greek 1A 09 33660 10 Semester 1
LI Advanced Greek B 09 33663 10 Semester 2
LI Advanced Latin A 09 33616 10 Semester 1
LI Advanced Latin B 09 33618 10 Semester 2
LI Beginners’ Akkadian 1 09 32020 20 Semester 1
LI Beginners’ Akkadian 2 09 32023 20 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar A: Adventures in the ancient novel 09 36931 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar A: Crisis and Empire 09 36915 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Displaying Egypt 09 36917 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Environmental archaeology in the lab 09 36919 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Euripides 09 37093 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: GIS and Virtual Worlds 09 36921 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Homer and the world of Odysseus 09 36925 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Luxury Arts and craft production in the Roman World 09 36929 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Meet the Greeks 09 36923 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Representations of Roman Women 09 36942 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Rhetoric at Rome 09 36936 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Roman love elegy in the Age of Augustus 09 37068 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Sex to Salvation 09 36938 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Swearing and Cursing in Ancient Greece 09 36940 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar A: Violence and Objections to Violence in the Roman and Late Antique World 09 37137 10 Semester 1
LI Research Seminar B: Adventures in the ancient novel 09 36932 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Crisis and Empire 09 36916 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Displaying Egypt 09 36918 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Environmental Archaeology in the Lab 09 36920 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Euripides 09 37094 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: GIS and Virtual Worlds 09 36922 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Homer and the world of Odysseus 09 36926 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Luxury Arts and craft production in the Roman World 09 36930 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Meet the Greeks 09 36924 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Representations of Roman Women 09 36943 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Rhetoric at Rome 09 36937 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Roman love elegy in the Age of Augustus 09 37069 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Sex to Salvation 09 36939 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Swearing and cursing in ancient Greece 09 36941 10 Semester 2
LI Research Seminar B: Violence and Objections to Violence in the Roman and Late Antique World 09 37138 10 Semester 2
LI Seminar A: From Stonehenge to Mycenae: the Bronze Age in Europe 09 34080 10 Semester 1
LI Seminar A: Roman Oratorical Culture 09 34089 10 Semester 1
LI Seminar B: From Stonehenge to Mycenae: the Bronze Age in Europe 09 34081 10 Semester 2
LI Seminar B: Roman Oratorical Culture 09 34090 10 Semester 2
Beginners' Greek 1 09 27265 20 Semester 1
Field Archaeology 09 27258 20 Semester 2
LI Artefacts and Material culture 09 27312 20 Semester 1
LI Beginners' Greek 2 09 27266 20 Semester 2
LI Beginners' Latin 1 09 27267 20 Semester 1
LI Beginners' Latin 2 09 27268 20 Semester 2
LI Classical Epic 09 27261 20 Semester 1
LI Classical Epic 09 35719 20 Semester 1
LI Human Remains: From Forensics to Display 09 28688 20 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Ancient Egyptian A 09 27301 20 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Ancient Egyptian B 09 27302 20 Semester 2
LI Professional Skills Module 09 28559 20 Semester 1
LI The Age of Cicero 09 27313 20 Semester 1
Understanding Ancient Societies 09 27278 20 Semester 1

Students may also take the following in place of one of their optional courses in either CAHA or History: 4: 20 CR

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Professional Skills Module 09 28559 20 Semester 1