Programme Requirements for 2020/21 Session


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B.A. Geography and History Full-time

Year: 3
2020/21 Session

Choose 60 credits from the following modules. Where modules are linked both options must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Catchment Processes, Environmental Change and Restoration 03 36263 20 Semester 1
Gender, body & performance 03 23145 20 Semester 2
Geographies of the Global South 03 36269 20 Semester 1
Geopolitics and global challenges. Middle East | Russia | Cities 03 36270 20 Semester 2
Politics of Environment 03 36271 20 Semester 2
Weather, Climate and Society - Micrometeorology 03 36274 20 Semester 2
Work, Migration and Alternative Economies 03 36275 20 Semester 2

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: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: B 09 36067 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects A 09 32131 20 Semester 1
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: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination A 09 30927 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West A 09 30921 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Making the Modern United States: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era A 09 31860 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s A 09 30955 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The American Civil War A 09 31834 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The English Civil War A 09 30919 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain A 09 30958 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A 09 31842 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The World’s Largest Empire: The Mongols and China A 09 30913 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: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: B 09 36067 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects B 09 32129 20 Semester 2
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: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West B 09 31103 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Making the Modern United States: the Gilded Age and Progressive Era B 09 31858 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s B 09 31112 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The American Civil War B 09 31828 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The English Civil War B 09 31102 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Revolting Right: Conservative Activism in Post-war Britain B 09 31115 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich B 09 31840 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The World’s Largest Empire: The Mongols and China B 09 31098 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

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: Capital Lives: Experiencing the City in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 30986 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: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 30992 20 Semester 1
LH Autumn Advanced Option: ‘Vanished: Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion’ 09 34967 20 Semester 1
LH God Beyond Borders: Building Interfaith Bridges 09 36088 20 Semester 2
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Spring Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: B 09 35006 20 Semester 2
LH African Popular Culture 09 20437 20 Semester 2
LH Contemporary Art and Home 09 30798 20 Semester 2
LH Inside Out: Interior and Interiority in French Art, Design and Culture 1840-1940 10 28862 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Conflict in the Modern Middle East 09 35165 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: George Orwell, England and the Modern World 09 31018 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 32005 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Terrorism in the USA: From the Klan to Al Qaeda to White Power 09 35161 20 Semester 2
LH Spring Advanced Option: Women Behaving Badly in Tudor and Stuart England 09 34974 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.