Students must choose either the independent study module below OR the independent study module in their partner subject.
Students taking 40 credits in History must choose TWO co-requisite Specials Subjects to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester)
Students taking 60-80 credits in History may choose TWO co-requisite Specials Subjects to the value of 40 credits (20 credits in each semester)
This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.
History Advanced Options.
Students taking 60-80 credits in History may choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 from List A AND/OR 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.
Module Title |
Code |
Credits |
Semester |
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800
|
09 38888
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Bread, Wine and Barricades: Freedom, Ecology and the Nature of Modern France
|
09 38740
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation
|
09 38741
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Capital Lives: Experiencing the City in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
|
09 38812
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976)
|
09 38742
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Conflict in the Modern Middle East
|
09 38743
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Experts, Scholars, and Spies: the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
|
09 38744
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: From the OSS to Snowden: A History of American Intelligence Agencies since 1945
|
09 38745
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present
|
09 38746
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories
|
09 38748
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West
|
09 38749
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973
|
09 38750
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Practising Public History
|
09 38752
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain
|
09 38753
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: Terrorism in the USA: From the Klan to Al Qaeda to White Power
|
09 38755
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: The Making of the British Raj: Gender, Conquest and Race in early colonial India, c.1757-1885
|
09 38757
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: Women Behaving Badly in Tudor and Stuart England
|
09 38760
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era
|
09 38738
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Advanced Option: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain
|
09 38759
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
Year: 4
2026/27 Session
The following must be taken:
Theology and Religion Department optional modules available to History students:
DASA Department optional modules available to History students:
DASA Department optional modules available to History students:
DASA Department optional modules available to History students:
English Literature Pathway:
Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) Dissertation in English Literature (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.
Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Literature must study Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme)
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.
It is not possible to take more than one English Literature Special Subject from a particular block.
Indicative lists of modules are provided below.
English Literature Special Subjects
Block A:
Block B:
Block C:
Block D: