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Programme structure: History with Innovation (MArts) - what's running in 2018/19

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type III: Professional in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Students must achieve a year mark of 50 or more out of a hundred at the end of the second year to be able to progress on to the four year programme.

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Mandatory TB-1
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Mandatory E TB-2
Past, Present and Futures INOV20001 10 Mandatory TB-2
Transdisciplinary Group Project 2: Solving Someone's Problem INOV20002 20 Mandatory TB-4
Choose one Special Field unit from the following:
The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field) HIST26004 20 Optional TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Optional TB-2
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Optional TB-2
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Optional TB-2
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Optional TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field) HIST20076 20 Optional TB-2
After Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST20081 20 Optional TB-2
From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field) HIST20087 20 Optional TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 20 Optional TB-2
Everyday Life in Tudor and Stuart England HIST20100 20 Optional TB-2
From the Birth of Islam to the Crusades (c.600-1291) HIST20101 20 Optional TB-2
Reading African History HIST20104 20 Optional TB-2
Violence and Slavery in the American South HIST20108 20 Optional TB-2
Choose one Lecture Response unit from the following:
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Optional B TB-1
The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20023 20 Optional B TB-1
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit) HIST20028 20 Optional B TB-1
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20052 20 Optional B TB-1
Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20079 20 Optional B TB-1
The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20086 20 Optional B TB-1
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20098 20 Optional B TB-1
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Optional B TB-1
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25006 20 Optional B TB-1
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Optional B TB-1
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25015 20 Optional B TB-1
The Long Civil Rights Movement HIST20110 20 Optional B TB-1
Global Empires HIST20111 20 Optional B TB-1
Centuries of Dishonour: American Indian History from Removal to Termination HIST20109 20 Optional B TB-1
Modern Latin American Revolutions HIST20042 20 Optional B TB-1
Options to the value of 10 or 20cp from the following:
Students may take up to 20CP of open units such as a language but note this will take them to 130CP for their second year
Open units up to a maximum of 20 CP OPEN 20 Optional
Introduction to Computer Programming EMAT10007 10 Optional TB-1
Human-Computer Interaction COMS21301 10 Optional TB-1
Diploma of Higher Education   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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