Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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

Year: 2
2025/26 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Topics in History 09 39689 20 Semester 2

Students choose 100-credits of optional modules.

Students must take a minimum of 40-credits in History and a minimum of 40-credits in Theology and Religion.

Students taking 60 or 80 credits in History may replace 20 credits in Semester 1 with ONE 20 credit CAL Future Skills module. Students taking 60 or 80 credits in Theology and Religion may replace 20 credits with ONE 20 credit CAL Future Skills module. Students may not take more than 20 credits of Future Skills modules in total.

All optional lists are indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Stage II students are reminded that if they plan to undertake the 40 credit dissertation in Theology and Religion in their final year, their options at stage II must include the LI Dissertation Preparation module.

Students taking 40 credits in History:

History: Students must choose ONE 20 credit option in Semester 1 from History List A. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

Students taking 60 credits in History (40 in Semester 1):

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from History List A AND LI History in Theory and Practice. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

OR

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from History List A AND ONE 20-credit Skills module. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

Students taking 60 credits in History (40 in Semester 2)

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from History List A and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 from History List B. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

OR

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from History List A and ONE 20-credit sources option in Semester 2 from History List C. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

Students taking 80 credits in History:

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from History List A PLUS EITHER History in Theory in Practice OR a Skills module in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit sources option in Semester 2 from List C. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics History module in Semester 2.

OR

History: Students will choose ONE 20-credit option from List A and EITHER History in Theory in Practice OR a Skills module in Semester 1. Students choose ONE 20-credit option from List B in Semester 2. You will also take the compulsory 20-credit Topics in History module in Semester 2.

Stage II students are reminded that if they plan to undertake the 40-credit dissertation in Theology and Religion in their final year, their options at stage II must include the LI Dissertation Preparation module.

Theology and Religion Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Boundaries of Truth in Christian Theology: Development and Content of Christian Doctrines 09 35139 20 Semester 1
LI Climate Change, Cataclysm and Commentaries 09 35177 20 Semester 2
LI Critical Issues in Theology, Religion and Education 09 37672 20 Semester 2
LI Dissertation Preparation 09 28288 20 Semester 2
LI Evil in the Human Condition 09 40039 20 Semester 1
LI Gender, Sexualities and Religion 09 40040 20 Semester 2
LI Global Islam 09 36085 20 Semester 2
LI Islamic Ethics 09 30847 20 Semester 1
LI Power, Society and Identity : critical thinkers for the study of religions 1 09 30843 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Religion and the Arts 09 34948 20 Semester 2
LI Religion in Contemporary Society 09 25111 20 Semester 1
LI Religion in the Public Sphere 09 37833 20 Semester 1
LI Religions of India 09 40691 20 Semester 2
LI Representations of the Divine 09 38203 20 Semester 1
LI Sufism: belief and practice 09 35176 20 Semester 2

History:
All students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from List A.

Students taking 60-80 credits in History may also choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 from List B.

The following options will be grouped into List A (Semester 1) and List B (Semester 2)

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

List A (Semester 1):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Option: 1619 and the Making of America: A 400 Year History 09 38256 20 Semester 1
LI Option: American Empire: The United States and the World 09 38257 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Confronting Colonialism: Histories of Empire in India and Ireland 09 38815 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Feminisms and the women’s movement in modern Britain: From suffragists to ladettes 09 38260 20 Semester 1
LI Option: In Search of Wealth and Power: China since 1800 09 38817 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Mass Culture and the Modern United States, 1877-1939 09 38818 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Pandora’s Box: Europe and the First World War, 1900-1930 09 38265 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Revolution, Nation, and the Global South 09 38267 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 38268 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds 09 38272 20 Semester 1
LI Public History 09 30693 20 Semester 1

Research and Professional Skills (required only for students electing to do a dissertation in Theology (Model A) -not available to Model B Students who are doing their dissertation or equivalent in their other subject.
With the approval of the programme leader students may also also take 20 or 40 credits of approved modules offered by a Department other than History in place of one or two options from Lists A and/or B only. Such credits will count as a history credits.

Credits must still be evenly balanced across semesters

DASA Department optional modules available to History students.

This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
African Popular Culture 09 20436 20 Semester 1
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22695 20 Semester 2
LI Africans in the Global Diaspora 09 30662 20 Semester 2
LI Anthropology and/of Activism 09 39836 20 Semester 1
LI Anthropology of Islam 09 31886 20 Semester 2
LI Anthropology of Migration 09 31403 20 Semester 1
LI Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37918 20 Semester 1
LI Development in Africa 09 37920 20 Semester 2
LI Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 29674 20 Semester 1
LI Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37923 20 Semester 1
LI Health and Disease in Africa 09 40776 20 Semester 1
LI Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29605 20 Semester 2
LI Recovering Africa's Past: oralities in the digital age 09 39834 20 Semester 1
LI Religion and Ritual 09 28073 20 Semester 1
LI The Social Life of the Economy 09 24822 20 Semester 1
LI The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 39835 20 Semester 2
LI Theory and Ethnography 09 24291 20 Semester 1
LI Urban Anthropology 09 31888 20 Semester 2

History Sources Options List C: Students taking 60 or 80 credits in History may choose ONE of the following 20-credit Sources options in Semester 2:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Sources in History: Memorials 09 39801 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Money 09 39802 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: News 09 39803 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Official Documents 09 39804 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Personal Documents 09 39805 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Possessions 09 39806 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Protest Documents 09 39807 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Testimonies 09 39808 20 Semester 2
LI Sources in History: Texts and Tales 09 39809 20 Semester 2

Students taking 60 or 80 credits in History and choosing 40 History credits in Semester 1 may EITHER choose the 20 credit Semester 1 History in Theory and Practice module below OR ONE 20-credit Future or Professional Skills module.

Students are reminded that they must retain at least 40 credits in History, and 40 credits in Theology and Religion

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI History in Theory and Practice 09 39435 20 Semester 1

Future Skills modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom 09 37804 20 Semester 2
LI Media in Practice 09 37869 20 Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1

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. Students must retain at least 40 credits in History, and 40 credits in History, and 40 credits in Theology and Religion. 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

List B (Semester 2)

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38258 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Crusading Societies in Medieval Europe 09 38816 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Global History of Gender and Sexuality: Body, Work, and Citizenship 09 38262 20 Semester 2
LI Option: In the Eye of the Storm: Europe & the Second World War, 1930-1960 09 38259 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Modern Britain from the Margins 09 38264 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Radical Pieties: Militants, Martyrs and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam 09 38266 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Rebellious Women and the Latin American Nation 09 38819 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Saints and Sinners: Heroes, Villains, and ‘Influencers’ in Britain and Europe, 800-1800 09 40777 20 Semester 2
LI Option: State and Empire in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 09 38269 20 Semester 2
LI Option: The Global Cold War 09 38261 20 Semester 2
LI Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 38271 20 Semester 2