Programme Requirements for 2019/20 Session


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B.A. History and Political Science Full-time

Year: 2
2019/20 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Analysing Political Worlds 08 26957 20 Full Term
LI Group Research 09 23513 20 Semester 2

All students must choose 20 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 2
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: Crusading and Crusader Kingdoms 09 30850 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: Feeling Politics in C20th Britain 09 30888 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Finding a role: Britain and the Global Economy since 1870 09 30883 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: France from the Popular Front to the Liberation 09 30885 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: From Division to Unification: A History of (West) Germany 1945-2000 09 30887 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Gender and the Making of the Modern World: Britain, 1650-1832 09 32133 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Britain in the 1980s 09 32145 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: In Search of Wealth and Power: China from the Opium War to the Present Day 09 30884 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 Silk Roads 09 30853 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: Towns and Urban Life in the Middle Ages 09 32136 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 From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28016 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 The African-American Experience to 1945 09 29986 20 Semester 1
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

With the approval of the programme leader student may also take an approved module or modules offered by a the Department of HIstory or a School or Department other than History

Students wishing to take 60 credits in History also choose credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
History in Theory and Practice 09 24833 20 Full Term
LI Professional Skills Module 09 28559 20 Semester 1
LI Research Methods 09 30940 20 Full Term

Students wishing to take 80 credits in History choose an additional 20 credits from the two modules above or from the following: With the approval of the programme leader, students may also take an approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI American Art in the 1960s 09 26758 20 Semester 2
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 1
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: America in Conflict: From the Civil War to the War on Terror 09 32138 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: Blood and Steel: Indigenous Peoples and the Spanish Conquest of the New World 09 30895 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: Kings, Conspirators & Revolutionaries: Political Thought and Action in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 09 30893 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: Making of Modern India, 1885-1964 09 30900 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: 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: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 09 32137 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The British Empire: An Introduction 09 30896 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
LI The African-American Experience since 1945 09 29988 20 Semester 2
LI The US in the World, 1890 to 1980 09 29067 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

Choose between 0 and 40 credits for the POLSIS half of your degree from the following modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Global Governance 08 27732 20 Full Term
LH Controversies in Contemporary Democracies 08 22555 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI America and the Middle East through Politics and Film. 08 30142 20 Semester 1
LI British Politics 08 20898 20 Full Term
LI Comparative Politics 08 29356 20 Full Term
LI Diplomatic History post 1945 08 20896 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Elections + Voting in Britain 08 29918 20 Full Term
LI Feminist Political Ideas 08 29303 20 Full Term
LI International Political Economy 08 20895 20 Full Term
LI International Politics & Security in Russia & Eurasia 08 23432 20 Full Term
LI International Relations Theory 08 20900 20 Full Term
LI International Relations of the Middle East 08 29292 20 Full Term
LI International Security 08 20903 20 Full Term
LI Public Choice Theory 07 02684 20 Semester 1
LI The Political Economy of Energy and Energy Security 08 31760 20 Semester 1 or 2