2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History
Programme code: | BA-HIST | UCAS code: | V100 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Professor Malcolm Chase | Contact address: | m.s.chase@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
Grades AAA at A-level.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of History
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of History
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
History
Programme specification:
History is both a subject and an academic discipline. Students of history attempt to reconstruct and explain the past through the study of its residues, using critical skills and insights particular to the historical profession or drawn from other disciplines. The Leeds School of History is a large research-led department. It achieved a grade point average of 2.75 in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and lecturers in the School generally teach in their specialist research areas.
The School's programme is notable for both the chronological and geographical range of the options it offers, which include modules in British, European, American and Wider World history.
Leeds students have access to some of the best library resources in the country. The University's Brotherton Library houses one of Britain's largest historical research collections and is an invaluable resource for student research projects in years 2 and 3. Students also have easy access from campus to the British Library branch at Boston Spa, the Leeds Public Library, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the West Yorkshire District Archives.
As Leeds History graduates develop advanced skills in critical thinking, information handling, research and communication skills, they are highly sought after by leading employers in fields as diverse as Law, the media and accountancy, as well as more subject orientated careers such as the heritage industry, archivism and teaching.
The programme will:
- provide students with tools for the critical interpretation of both secondary and primary texts;
- equip students with extensive background and comparative historical knowledge of a number of chronological periods and cultures or geographic regions;
- offer students a wide choice of specialist topics covering many periods, approaches and cultures, based on the research specialisms of staff in the School;
- equip students with a broad awareness of general developments in historiography, and in depth knowledge of the historiography of their specialist areas;
- expose students to a variety of the approaches and conceptual tools of some of the sub-disciplines of the historical profession, which may include social history, economic history, cultural history, gender history and political history;
- equip students with the skills and opportunity to conduct autonomous supervised research projects, including a primary source or historiographically based dissertation;
- develop students' competency at communicating their ideas by a variety of methods, including oral presentations, essays and a research-based dissertation.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
HIST1055 | Historiography and Historical Skills | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1090 | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1210 | The Modern World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1300 | Primary Sources for the Historian: An Introduction to Documentary Study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ODLM1002 | Studying in a Digital Age (Arts) | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following modules or take discovery modules outside the School:
HIST1045 | Empire and Aftermath: The Mediterranean World from the Second to the Eighth Centuries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1060 | Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of discovery modules outside the School in place of the option modules listed above.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:
GROUP A MODULES
HIST2005 | Rule and Reform under Charlemagne and his Successors, 768-987 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2006 | Small Change and Big Changes: Money and Power in Europe, 284-1000 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2030 | The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2031 | The Crusades and Medieval Christendom | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2065 | The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2073 | Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2075 | Urban Experience and Identity in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2110 | The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2112 | Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2115 | Charles the Great to Alfred the Great: Franks, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in the Ninth Century | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2117 | Conquerors and Conquered: England, 1000-1135 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2120 | Environment and Environmentalism in Britain, c. 1750-1972 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2121 | Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-1870 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2125 | Britain and the Atlantic World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2135 | Britain and the Industrial Revolution | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2160 | Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe, 11th - 15th Centuries | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2170 | Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2180 | Heretics, Witches and Conspirators: Toleration and Persecution in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2210 | English History 1066-1216: Creation and Destruction of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2220 | The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2305 | Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2308 | Life and Death in British India, 1690-1871 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2433 | The Global Caribbean, 1756-1848 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
AND at least 40 credits from the following modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:
GROUP B MODULES
HIST2077 | Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-1945 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2079 | The Republic in Crisis: Conflict and Identity in France since 1870 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2100 | Victorian England: Old England and Industrial Society 1837-1865 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2101 | Victorian England: Aristocracy and Democracy, 1865-1901 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2140 | Imperial Germany 1871-1918 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2152 | Spain, 1898-1936: Disaster, Reaction and Reform | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2195 | Britain and Decolonisation - from the Western Front to the Present Day | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2290 | 20th Century Britain: The Burdens of Conflict 1900-1945 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2291 | 20th Century Britain: Progress and Uncertainty 1945-1990 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2301 | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2309 | Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2310 | Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-1917 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2351 | The American Century, 1941-1980 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2420 | Nationalism, Colonialism and 'Religious Violence' in India, 1857-1947 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2430 | The History of Africa since 1900 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2435 | The Popular Caribbean: A History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2441 | Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2442 | Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2645 | The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2653 | American Business History | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2658 | Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 |
The following modules offer you the chance to explore the diversity of approaches to the study of the past. Some of the modules give you the chance to research and practise History in collaboration with others, both within and outside the University.
These modules are excellent preparation for the final year dissertation.
GROUP C MODULES
FOAR2000 | Research Placement | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2500 | Students as Scholars | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2535 | Historical Research Project | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students cannot take level 3 modules at level 2. Students are only permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at levels 2 and 3, with the exception of skills discovery modules.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
HIST3500 | History Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following special subject modules:
HIST3001 | Conquest, Convivencia and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Spain, 711-1212 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3030 | The Norman Kingdom of Sicily | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3220 | Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3235 | Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939 - 1952 | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3240 | The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-1940 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3260 | Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Africa: Uganda's Kingdoms 1862-1964 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3270 | The Third Reich, 1933-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3287 | Caribbean Mobilities: Travel, Culture and Politics, 1838-1939 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3290 | Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.1500 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3300 | Chartism: Popular Politics and Authority in Northern England, 1838-1858 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3315 | Citizens of the World: British Merchants in the Long Eighteenth Century | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3330 | Europe in an Age of Total Warfare | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3332 | The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3352 | Cultural Encounters: Spain, Portugal and the Wider World in the Late Middle Ages | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3382 | The Cultural History of Venice, 1509-1797 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3385 | Gendering the Raj: Women, Imperialism and Nationalism in Colonial and Postcolonial India | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3387 | The Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3390 | The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3391 | De Tocqueville and the Democratic Regime | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3392 | Eastern Subjects: British Attitudes to India, 1757-1857 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3395 | The Troubles: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-Present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3580 | Empire, State and Society: Britain's Imperial Experience, c. 1870-1914 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3590 | White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3650 | Stalin and Stalinism | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3665 | France and Algeria from 1830 to the Present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3685 | Georgians at War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3686 | The Tudor Discovery of Russia, 1553-1603 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3688 | The French Wars of Religion | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3695 | The Korean War | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3697 | Colonising Animals: More-than-Human Histories of Empire in Asia | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3740 | Alliance Without Backbone: Germany, its Allies and Satellites Before and During World War Two | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3743 | From Byron to Bin Laden: Transnational War Volunteers | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3745 | Secret Service: The World of British Intelligence | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3747 | The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 1979 | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3750 | Canada, America and the Origins of the Cold War 1945 - 1949 | 40 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3785 | Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-59 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the option modules listed below:
HIST3452 | Constructing and Contesting Whiteness in the US, 1865-1975 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3455 | Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3460 | Inventing the Barbarians | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3470 | Memories: Autobiographies and Memoirs as Historical Sources | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3480 | Emperor and Authority in Medieval Germany, 900-1273 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3493 | War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3495 | Read All About It! Understanding News, c.1500-Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3497 | Printing and Books in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3510 | Pastors and Prelates: Bishops in England, France and Germany, 950-1100 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3515 | The Baltic Crusades: The Conquest and Conversion of North-Eastern Europe, 1180-1410 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3708 | Britain, The Empire and the Wider World, c. 1815-1914 (Part 2) | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3709 | The Breakdown of Liberal Democracy in Europe, 1890-1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3721 | Europe's Communist Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and its Consequences, 1945-2000 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3722 | Harold Wilson and the Meaning of Politics in Modern Britain | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3723 | Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3724 | Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3725 | Heathens and Slaves: Evangelicalism, Race and Empire, 1765-1785 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3726 | In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3728 | The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3732 | Men and Masculinity in Britain, c.1860-1960: War, Work and Home | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3735 | Crime and Punishment in Colonial Southern Asia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3736 | Caste and Politics in 20th Century India | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3737 | Afterlives of Empire: A History of the Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3880 | 'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3887 | Changing Enemies: Germany Occupied and Divided, 1945-55 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3890 | European Security: Myth or Reality? | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST3900 | The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1917-1991 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3999 | Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students may take 40 credits of MEDV modules, 20 credits in lieu of a core HIST option module, with prior permission from the Head of the School of History.
The following modules offer you the chance to explore the diversity of approaches to the study of the past. Some of the modules give you the chance to research and practise History in collaboration with others, both within and outside the University.
HIST2500 | Students as Scholars | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.
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