Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. History and Politics with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

The following must be taken

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Group Research	09 23513	20	Semester 2

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Comparative Politics	08 29356	20	Semester 1
LI History of Political Ideas: power, revolution and the state	08 37483	20	Semester 1

Students choose from a range of Autumn options which vary from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna	10 24000	20	Semester 2
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War	09 35003	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 2
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60	10 24004	20	Semester 2

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

Students wishing to take 60 credits in History also choose 20 credits from the following:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI History in Theory & Practice A	09 33715	10	Semester 1
LI History in Theory & Practice B	09 33720	10	Semester 2
LI Research Methods A	09 33726	10	Semester 1
LI Research Methods B	09 33727	10	Semester 2

Students who chose 80 credits in History may take two modules from those just listed above, or may take instead a Spring Option. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Spring Option: American Empire: The United States and the World	09 37108	20	Semester 2
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory	09 28668	20	Semester 2
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600	09 24247	20	Semester 1
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100	09 30890	20	Semester 2

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.

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

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	Semester 2
LI British Politics	08 20898	20	Semester 2
LI Comparative Politics	08 29356	20	Semester 1
LI International Political Economy	08 20895	20	Semester 1
LI International Relations Theory	08 20900	20	Semester 1
LI International Security	08 20903	20	Semester 2
LI Politics of Sustainable Development	08 37826	20	Semester 2
LI Post-Colonial Britain: Race, Identity & Belonging	08 37828	20	Semester 2
LI The Politics of the European Union	08 37827	20	Semester 2