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Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2015/16

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
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-2
A Body of Evidence: Forensic Medicine in Britain (Level I Special Field) HIST20043 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
After Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST20081 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
American Empire HIST30043 20 Honours/6 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
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History) HIST38018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Britain's Cold War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field) HIST20076 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Calvinism and Europe (Level H Special Subject) HIST37002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Childhood and the Nazis (Level H Special Subject) HIST30023 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
China and the World in the Twentieth Century (Level C Special Topic) HIST10030 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25015 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Communist Worlds HIST30019 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Communist Worlds (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0044 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Community, Nation and Empire (Level H Reflective History Unit) HIST30047 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-2
Crusading in the Middle Ages HIST10020 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Death, Doctors and Disease (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0046 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30025 20 Honours/6 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 HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland HIST30045 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Drink and Disorder in Early Modern England (Level C Special Topic) HIST10017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Early Modern Italy (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0047 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Early Modern Italy (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30026 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Special Field) HIST26026 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39003 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Europe: A Fractal History 1945-1989 (Level M Lecture Response) HISTM0065 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Expectations of the End (Level C Special Topic) HIST14007 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Filming the Past HIST30021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Food: a Global History (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0048 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30027 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
France and the World HIST20038 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Gender and The British Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST26029 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0049 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30028 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History) HIST38002 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Global Cities HISTM0061 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Global Cities (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30034 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Going Global: Writing Global History (Reflective History Unit) HIST30029 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Group Project HIST23021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History and Literature HIST20039 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History in the Middle Ages (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0051 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30031 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
History through Literature in Early Modern Europe HIST30022 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 (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0058 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Information in the Age of Discovery (Level H Special Subject) HIST30036 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
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
Jewish Experience in Modern European History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20044 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? Labour Party Thought and Practice, 1945-83. (Level C Special Topic) HIST14028 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Madness: A Modern History (Level C Special Topic) HIST10029 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Marvels and Monsters (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20049 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Medieval Mind (Level C Special Topic) HIST14017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Memory and the Middle Ages HIST20084 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Modern Latin American Revolutions HIST20042 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Modern Places (Level H Reflective History) HIST38019 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Napoleon (Level I Special Field) HIST26003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Partition (Level H Special Subject) HIST30038 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Pirates (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0053 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30032 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
Plague, Politics and Society: England 1348-1400 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Political Culture in Stuart England (Level I Special Field) HIST20078 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
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
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37004 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject) HIST30024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Research Methods HISTM2010 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Researching and Writing History HISTM0055 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Revolution and Theory: British Political Thought 1603-1689 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14001 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Rome after Rome HIST10023 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Science and the Supernatural HIST30044 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Scramble for China, 1830-1900 (Level C Special Topic) HIST10032 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20052 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Soviet Experiment: Constructing Socialism 1917-1991 (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25017 20 Intermediate/5 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 Open TB-1
Thatcherism's Legacy: The Political Economy of Britain Since 1990 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The American Civil War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The British World (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0057 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The British World (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30033 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
The Crisis of Modernity: Progress and Degeneration in fin-de-siecle Europe (Level C Special Topic) HIST10034 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 Open TB-1
The Development of the Modern Mass Media: Disciplining Democracy (Level M Lecture Response unit) HISTM0063 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Early Reformation (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25009 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
The Origins of the Old Regime, 1550-1750 (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30037 20 Honours/6 Open TB-1
The Origins of the Old Regime, 1550-1750 (Level M Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0064 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Past That Does Not Pass: The Memory of WWII and the Holocaust (Level I Special Field) HIST20069 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
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 Open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
War and Society HIST20035 20 Intermediate/5 Open TB-1
Wild Things: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern World HIST10021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2

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