Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2009/10

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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 TB-2
1968 and its afterlives (Level H Special Subject) HIST37015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
1984 and Beyond: The Rise and Fall of European Totalitarianism in History and Fiction (Level H Special Subject) HIST37014 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History) HIST38018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Bristol and the Slave Trade c.1550-1807 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14023 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Bristol, c. 1000-1542 HISTM0006 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Calvinism and Europe (Level H Special Subject) HIST37002 20 Honours/6 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
Combat Motivation: Why Do Soldiers Fight? (Level H Reflective History) HIST38008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Culture and Civilisation of the Renaissance (Level C Special Topic) HIST14006 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Decolonisation and its Consequences HISTM2013 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History) HIST38010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History) HIST38016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Early Modern Europe and the Literary Imagination (Level I Special Field) HIST26023 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Edward II (1307-1327) (Level I Special Field) HIST26001 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
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
English in Medieval Ireland (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25018 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Everyday Life Under Dictatorship HISTM0025 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Expectations of the End (Level C Special Topic) HIST14007 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Gangsters, Colonists and Communists in Old and New Shanghai 1900-2001 HISTM1012 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
German Bodies: Sex and the Body in Twentieth Century Germany (Level I Special Field) HIST26007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History) HIST38002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Good-bye Lenin': Culture, Society and Dissent in the later Soviet Union (Level I Special Field) HIST26022 20 Intermediate/5 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, 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
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 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
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
Literacy in the Middle Ages (Level C Special Topic) HIST14025 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Medieval and Early Modern Colonialism HISTM0009 20 Masters/7 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 Latin American Revolutions (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Modern Sexualities HISTM1014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Nationalism in Africa (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25016 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
New Kids on the Block': The Rise and Fall of the Phenomenon of Youth in the 20th Century (Level C Special Topic) HIST14022 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Norman, Saxon and Celt in the Medieval British Isles: What's in a Name? (Level H Reflective History) HIST38017 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles', 1965-1998 (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25019 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Persecution and Toleration: Dealing with Difference in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe HISTM2012 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Plague, Politics and Society: England 1348-1400 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
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
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
Research Methods HISTM2010 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Researching History HIST33122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Social Protest in Modern Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25011 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Soviet Experiment: Constructing Socialism 1917-1991 (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25017 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
The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field) HIST26004 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 Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25009 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The English Reformation HISTM0005 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Holocaust and Historians (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25013 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Origins, Consequences and History of the Boxer Rising in China, 1899-1900 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14011 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Political Culture of Violence: Paramilitaries In Modern Ireland. (Level C Special Topic) HIST14026 20 Certificate/4 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
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Themes in Contemporary History HISTM0014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Witchcraft Through the Ages (Level C Special Topic) HIST14024 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 (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