Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2008/09

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'Empires Within': Imperialism in British Culture and Society HISTM0029 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
'Savages' or 'Innocents'? Childhood and the State, 1780-1914 (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25012 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Academic and Mystical Approaches to God AFACM1004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Ancient and Modern Paganism in Britain (Level I Special Field) HIST26002 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Beyond Human History: Environmental History from Imperialism to Sustainability (Level H Reflective History) HIST38015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Britain's Cold War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
British Rule in Ireland 1900-200: From Colony to Celtic Tiger HISTM0035 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Cervantes and the Early Modern Imagination HISTM2003 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages (Level C Special Topic) HIST14013 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Convicts, Coercion and Colonialism: The European Settlement of Australia, c.1788-1853 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37007 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History) HIST38010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Ends and Aftermaths of Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST37008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
England and France at War and Peace, 1259-1399 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Enlightenment Europe (Level C Special Topic) HIST14005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Exile and the Imperial State HISTM0019 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Expectations of the End (Level C Special Topic) HIST14007 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain (Level C Special Topic) HIST14014 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Group Project HIST23021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Henry V - His Life and His Legacy (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25014 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
History and Historians in Medieval Europe (Level H Special Subject) HIST37000 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
History and Myth in Film (Level H Reflective History) HIST38001 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History) HIST38013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Intellectual Dissent and Economic Development in China c.1956-1989 (Level I Special Field) HIST26006 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Introduction to Early Modern History HIST13012 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Introduction to Medieval History HIST13011 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Introduction to Research Methods HISTM0016 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies HIST13014 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
Introductory Latin HISTM0003 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Jews and Judaism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe HISTM0030 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Joan of Arc (Level H Reflective History) HIST38012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Life and Death in the Ghettos and Camps: Social Histories of the Holocaust (Level I Special Field) HIST26017 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Medieval Mind (Level C Special Topic) HIST14017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Migration and Ethnicity in Modern Britian c. 1815-1918 (Level I Special Field) HIST26016 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Modern Sexualities HISTM1014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Myth and Reality: Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution (Level H Reflective History) HIST38005 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Nationalism in Africa (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25016 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Nationalism, War and Revolution: Ireland, 1870-1921. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Philosophical Approaches to History HISTM0015 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Political Culture and Communication in Britain, 1867-1939 (Level I Special Field) HIST26015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Politics, Poetics and Places of Memory: Remembering the Holocaust, 1945 to the Present HISTM1011 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Post-colonial Africa: Politics, Society and Culture (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History) HIST38006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Prophecy and Society in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26000 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Public History in Theory and Practice HISTM0023 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37004 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Research Methods HISTM2010 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Research Skills HISTM0002 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Researching History HIST33122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revolution, Repression and Memory in Contemporary Latin America (Level H Special Subject) HIST37013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Sexing the Empire: Gender, Race and the Body in the British Colonial World HISTM2008 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Sexualities (Level H Reflective History) HIST38011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Social Protest in Modern Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25011 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Subject Project HIST33103 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Special Topic Project HIST13003 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Supervised Individual Study HISTM1019 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Supervised Individual Study 2 HISTM0038 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Thatcherism's Legacy: The Political Economy of Britain Since 1990 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Thatcherism: Genesis and Performance: The Political Economy of Britain in the 1970's and 1980's (Level I Special Field) HIST26009 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The 'Troubles': Politics, Conflict and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1965-1998 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Age of Charlemagne (Level C Special Topic) HIST14019 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The American Century - How and When It Began: The United State and Great Britain in Transition, (Level I Special Field) HIST26018 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Christianisation of Spanish America (Level H Special Subject) HIST37003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Creation of Modern Africa (Level C Special Topic) HIST14010 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The English Reformation HISTM0005 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The German Question 1943-1990 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14020 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Historiography of the First Crusade HISTM2007 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Holocaust and Historians (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25013 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The New South Africa HISTM0034 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Sky Falls In: How North America Coped with The Great Depression (Level C Special Topic) HIST14002 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Themes and Problems in Medieval and Early Modern History HISTM0001 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Themes in Contemporary History HISTM0014 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft in English Literature (Level C Special Topic) HIST14016 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (French 1) HIST29003 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Year Abroad (French 2) HIST29004 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Year Abroad (French 3) HIST29005 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (French 4) HIST29006 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (French) HIST29001 120 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-4
Year Abroad (German 1) HIST29007 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Year Abroad (German 2) HIST29008 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Year Abroad (German 3) HIST29009 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (German 4) HIST29010 30 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Year Abroad (German) HIST29002 120 Intermediate/5 Not open AYEAR