Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2018/19

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
After Empire (Level I Special Field) HIST20081 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 C TB-1
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST20036 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Black Lives Matter: The African American Freedom Struggle (1945-Present) HIST30095 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit) HIST30079 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Brief Encounters: Love, Labour, and Loneliness in Modern London HIST20099 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
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) HIST30078 20 Honours/6 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
Capitalism (Level H Reflective History) HIST30073 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Centuries of Dishonour: American Indian History from Removal to Termination HIST20109 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25015 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Cities HIST10047 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Colonizing Nature HISTM0066 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Colonizing Nature (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30072 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Comparative American Slavery HIST30092 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Convicts and the colonies: punishment, forced labour and the British Empire (Level H Special Subject) HIST37018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dealing with Defeat: the English and the Norman Conquest, since 1066 (Level H Reflective History) HIST30088 20 Honours/6 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 Not 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
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History) HIST38016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open E TB-4
Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland HIST30045 20 Honours/6 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
Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) (Level H Reflective History) HIST30084 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20098 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Everyday Life in Tudor and Stuart England HIST20100 20 Intermediate/5 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 Not open TB-1
From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field) HIST20087 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
From the Birth of Islam to the Crusades (c.600-1291) HIST20101 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 Not open TB-1
Global Empires HIST20111 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Global History HIST20112 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America HISTM0070 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30083 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Histories of the Polar Regions HIST30102 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History Outside The Box (Level H Reflective History) HIST30089 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
History in Public HIST20089 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History in the Middle Ages HIST30101 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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 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 (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0058 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
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-2
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) HIST37011 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Lives and Letters (Level H Special Subject) HIST30075 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit) HIST20028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20079 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Modern Latin American Revolutions HIST20042 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Pirates (Lecture Response Unit) HISTM0053 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30032 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
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 Health in America HIST30099 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
Reading African History HIST20104 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Red Power and Beyond: Post-war American Indian Ideology and Protest HIST30094 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject) HIST30024 20 Honours/6 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 Not open B TB-1
Science and the Supernatural HIST30044 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20052 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Slavery HIST10046 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World 1450-1870 HISTM0071 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open E TB-2
Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25006 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
Teenage Kicks: Youth and Subcultures in Britain since 1918 HIST30097 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
The American Century HIST10044 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
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 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 Not open TB-1
The Early Modern World HIST10043 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20086 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
The Long Civil Rights Movement HIST20110 20 Intermediate/5 Not open B TB-1
The Medieval World HIST10042 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
The Modern World HIST10048 20 Certificate/4 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 B TB-1
The World of Byzantium (c.500-1100) (Level H Special Subject) HIST30085 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Tudor Britain HISTM0072 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Tudor Britain (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30090 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Violence and Slavery in the American South HIST20108 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
War and Society HIST10045 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History) HIST38003 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2

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