Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2012/13

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Academic and Mystical Approaches to God AFACM1004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Benevolent Britannia? Humanitarianism and the British Empire (Level C Special Topic) HIST10018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History) HIST38018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Bristol, c. 1000-1542 HISTM0006 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Britain's Cold War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Building New Britains HISTM0027 20 Masters/7 Open TB-2
Calvinism and Europe (Level H Special Subject) HIST37002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Colonial Disorders (Level H Special Subject) HIST30013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Community, Nation and Empire (Level H Reflective History Unit) HIST30009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Convicts and the colonies: punishment, forced labour and the British Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST37018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Crusading in the Middle Ages HIST10020 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Culture and Civilisation of the Renaissance (Level C Special Topic) HIST14006 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Decolonising Health (Level H Reflective History Unit) HIST30014 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
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
Drink and Disorder in Early Modern England (Level C Special Topic) HIST10017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Ends and Aftermaths of Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST37008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
England's First Colony: Ireland, 1170-1460 (Special Field Unit) HIST20029 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Enlightenment Europe (Level C Special Topic) HIST14005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Special Field) HIST26026 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
France at War 1940-1944: Experience and Aftermath (Level C Special Topic) HIST14000 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
From Balloons to the Beagle: Exploration, Discovery and Invention in the Romantic Age c.1780 - c.1835 (Special Field) HIST26025 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Gender and The British Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST26029 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History) HIST38002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Group Project HIST23021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Introduction to Early Modern History HIST13012 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
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-1
Kingdoms of the Savannah: Central Africa from the late pre-colonial period to the Great Depression HISTM0040 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
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
Living with Defeat: Occupied France 1940-1944 HISTM0041 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Madness and Empire HISTM0004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit) HIST20028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Medieval Geographies HISTM0039 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Medieval and Early Modern Colonialism HISTM0009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Modern Sexualities HISTM1014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
New Labour in its Historical Context HISTM2011 20 Masters/7 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
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
Postcolonial Africa: Politics, Society and Culture (Level I Special Field) HIST26027 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History) HIST38006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Propaganda (Level H Reflective History) HIST38020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Public History in Theory and Practice HISTM0023 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Race and Criminality (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
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
Researching History HIST33122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Resistance and Nationalism (Level I Special Field) HIST20026 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Retreat or Rout? British Policy-Making at the End of Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST30010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revolution and Theory: British Political Thought 1603-1689 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14001 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Rise and Fall of European Colonialism (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20027 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Sexualities (Level H Reflective History) HIST38011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
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 Topic Project HIST13003 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25006 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
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 Birth of Modern America: The United States, 1917-29 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14030 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Creation of Modern Africa (Level C Special Topic) HIST14010 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Cultural History of the Book, 1300 - 1559 HIST10022 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25009 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Good, The Bold and The Handsome? Power, Patronage and Piety in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy HISTM0028 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Holocaust and Historians (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25013 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Intellectual Culture of the Twelfth Century (Level H Special Subject) HIST37001 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20023 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The University in Western Europe and the USA since 1800 (Level I Special Field) HIST26028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Themes in Contemporary History HISTM0014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Themes in Cultural and Intellectual History HISTM2014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Universities Since 1945: Mass Higher Education and the Rise of the Global University HISTM2020 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
War Crimes (Level I Special Field) HIST20025 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Wild Things: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern World HIST10021 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