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Undergraduate History Part II Courses

Current Modules

Please note that not all Part II courses listed below are run each year. Tutors may be on leave or courses may not recruit minimum numbers and, whilst the Department makes every effort to give students early warning where a course will not be available in a particular year, unforeseen circumstances sometimes result in late changes in course availability.

For further information please contact the Part II Administrator

15 Credit Modules

All History 15 credit courses are available to years two and three History Major or Combined students. They are also available as minor subjects to students who have passed Part I History. These courses run once a year in either Michaelmas or Lent term. Most History 15 credit courses operate on the basis of 36 hours of official teaching contact equivalent to 3 hours per week term time and 2 weeks revision seminars in Summer Term. Occasionally this will vary depending on the course.

Medieval History

• HIST200 - The Making of Germany, 843-1122
• HIST201 - From Bede to Becket: The Cult of Saints in Earlier Medieval England, c. 600-1200
• HIST204 - The Origins and Rise of Islam ((600-1250 AD)
• HIST205 - Muslim Spain and Sicily (711—1050)
• HIST292 - The Crusades I: Conquest, Colonization and Religious Enthusiasm 1095-1187
• HIST293 - The Crusades II: Conquest, Colonization and Religious Enthusiasm 1187-1330
• HIST296 - An Age of Trauma? The Political History of the Late Medieval British Isles (c. 1280-1510)
• HIST297 - The World of the Black Death: Economy, Society and Religion, 1300-1500

Early Modern History

• HIST226 - A History of the Lake District: The Forging of Regional Identity
• HIST294 - Nature and Culture 1500-1700: Themes from the Renaissance
• HIST227 - Environment and History: human beings and natural resources in pre-modern Britain and Europe
• HIST290 - Culture and Society in England, 1500-1750
• HIST295 - Nature and Culture 1500-1750: Key texts and Contexts
• HIST231 - Mapping Terra Incognita: Travel and Exploration of the Americas and the Pacific 1492—1780

Modern History

• HIST230 - Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War (1936-2010)
• HIST232 - Mass Violence and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
• HIST272 - Empire, Race, and the French Colonial World, 1791-1962
• HIST274 - Medicine, Life and Death, 1800 to the Present
• HIST256 - The United States and the Vietnam War
• HIST257 - After Vietnam: Remembering, Representing and Refighting the 'Bad War'
• HIST270 - The History of the United States, 1789-1865
• HIST271 - The History of the United States, 1865-1989
• HIST264 - The Floating World: A History of Japanese Manga and Popular Culture
• HIST276 - In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain, 1880-1970
• HIST277 - In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain Since 1970
• HIST278 - Sex and Violence in Imperial India, 1857-1919
• HIST279 - Resistance and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1947
• HIST280 - The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901
• HIST284 - Total War 1916-1920
• HIST285 - New World Order 1919-1939
• HIST286 - Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century
• HIST288 - The Wartime Gender Contract and the Combat Taboo in 20th c. Britain
• HIST233 - The 'Totalitarian' City: Fascist Rome, Nazi Berlin and Soviet Moscow
• HIST273 - Empire, Race, and the French Nation-State, 1870 to the Present
• HIST275 - The Politics of Reproduction, 1800 to the Present
• HIST281 - Britain in the Twentieth Century
• HIST283 - From Agrarian to Industrial: Britain's Changing Society, 1790—1914
• HIST287 - Presenting the Past: The Third Reich in Film

Historical Methods

• HIST282 - Digital History: Using Computers in Historical Research
• HIST260 - Witness to Change: How Historians Understand and Explain
• HIST289 - When the Past meets the Present: Oral History in Theory and Practice

Special Subjects - 60 Credit Modules

Special Subjects are available to Year 3 History Major students only. Special Subjects operate on the basis of 66 hours of official teaching contact, equivalent to 3 hours per week over a period spanning 22 weeks (10 weeks in Michaelmas Term of year 3, 10 weeks in Lent Term of year 3, and 2 weeks [revision seminars] in Summer Term of year 3), plus individual consultations. Working within the 66-hour overall figure, teaching approaches will vary due to the specialist nature of the courses.

• HIST311 - Bede and His World, c.660-c.740
• HIST312 - The Normans in Italy, 1050-1194
• HIST313 - Hermits and Reformers - The Monastic Revolution, c.1080-1150
• HIST317 - Richard III and the Princes in the Tower - Politics and Power in the Late Fifteenth Century
• HIST324 - Everyday Life in Pre-industrial England: Studying Local Communities
• HIST333 - Science and Society in England, 1640-1688
• HIST343 - Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
• HIST347 - Private Lives and Public Policy: Evacuation, Memory and the Second World War
• HIST348 - Gender Identities in the People’s War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
• HIST351 - How the Camera Changed the World - The Photographic Image in History
• HIST352 - Spaces of Mass Violence: Modernity, State Power, and 'Spaces of Exception' in the 20th Century
• HIST353 - Out of the Ordinary: FIlm and Memory in Twentieth-Century Europe
  
• HIST356 - La Nouvelle Histoire: Twentieth-Century Historiography in France and Beyond
• HIST357 - The Fatal Attraction of National Socialism
• HIST363 - Anarchy and Society in the English Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720
• HIST364 - The Shock of the New - Modernity and Modernism in American Culture, 1877-1919
• HIST366 - The Politics of Memory: The Contested Past in Museums, Monuments and Minds
• HIST369 - India - Partition and the Post-Colonial Nation
• HIST370 - Art, Archaeology and Antiquities in Modern India
• HIST382 - The Surveillance Society: Official Records and Life and Death in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Dissertation - 30 Credit Module

The HIST300 Dissertation Module is only available to and compulsory for History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies Majors. This module gives you the opportunity to work in depth gaining the satisfaction of working independently and of making a topic your own.

• HIST300: Dissertation Module

Special Study Modules (Centre for Medical Education only)

• SSM1: Medicine, Life and Death
• SSM2: Crisis Mortality in Tudor and Stuart England
• SSM3: Health in Interwar Britain
• SSM4:The Black Death as Historical Problematic

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