Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. History and Philosophy Full-time

Year: 3
2022/23 Session

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.

For the students who do not undertake a dissertation or similar independent study module at Level I or H in their other subject, it is compulsory to do either one of the following two modules. For those students who do undertake a dissertation or a similar independent study module at Level I or H in their other subject, these two are optional modules (even if no student can, of course, do both modules). Furthermore, in order for a Joint Honours student to be permitted to do the 40 credit dissertation at stage III, they must do 80 credits worth of philosophy modules at this level. That is, they must do two other 20 credit philosophy modules in addition to the 40 credit Philosophical Project.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Philosophical Project 08 27860 40 Full Term
LH Philosophical Project 09 21805 20 Full Term

Choose 60 (or if taking Philosophical Project, 40) credits from the following list of options or up to 20 credits of Level I Department of Philosophy modules may be taken provided that all 60 year 3 credits in the other Joint Honours subject are being taken at Level H. This list of modules which follows is indicative, but in any given year, only around 15 of these will run in the ordinary way (with lectures, seminars etc.) Most of the rest will be made available as a 'Special Subject' to students whose Stage 2 marks averaged 60 or better and who elect to take (at most one) of these modules on a more independent basis.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Being Good and Doing Right: Issues in Contemporary Moral Theory 08 26794 20 Semester 2
LH Bodies and Beauty 09 30158 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and How to Understand them: Topics in Philosophy of Biology 09 30840 20 Semester 2
LH It’s About Time! 09 30950 20 Semester 2
LH Just War 09 29256 20 Semester 1
LH Nietzsche 09 26095 20 Semester 1
LH Philosophy of Mathematics 09 26094 20 Semester 2
LH Prejudice Race + Gender 08 26796 20 Semester 1
LH Reason and Belief 09 31431 20 Semester 1
LH Social Justice 09 30837 20 Semester 2
LH Topics in Philosophy of Religion 08 26825 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. 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 who undertook 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
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1