2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History and History and Philosophy of Science
Programme code: | BA-HIST&HPSC | UCAS code: | VV15 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Jonathan Topham | Contact address: | J.R.Topham@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
ABB at A-level, including A in History, but excluding General Studies/Critical Thinking.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 125 credits.
In level 1, students are required to pass a minimum of 40 credits in each of their two main subjects. The further 40 credits may consist of Discovery Modules in a third subject or may consist of further modules in one or both main subjects. Students must pass 100 credits and all core modules as identified in the programme.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
HIST1055 | Historiography and Historical Skills | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1300 | Primary Sources for the Historian: An Introduction to Documentary study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC1015 | Magic, Science and Religion | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC1045 | Introduction to the History of Science | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC1050 | Darwin, Germs and the Bomb | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL1109 | How Science Works | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PRHS1025 | Introduction to Academic Skills | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits.
Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:
- History and Philosophy of Science: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
- History: a minimum of 100 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
The remaining 40 credits can be used for Discovery Modules or further modules in the named subjects.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at Level 2 and all core modules to proceed to the next level of the programme.
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study at least 40 credits from the following History option modules, including at least one from each group. These MUST be taken in different semesters.
GROUP A
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2073 | Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2075 | Urban Experience and Identity in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2080 | Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2110 | The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500 | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 201718 | |
HIST2121 | Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-1870 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2125 | Britain and the Atlantic World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2135 | Britain and the Industrial Revolution | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2170 | Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2210 | English History 1066-1216: Creation and Destruction of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2220 | The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
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) |
GROUP B
HIST2100 | Victorian England: Old England and Industrial Society 1837-1865 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2101 | Victorian England: Aristocracy and Democracy, 1865-1901 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 | Not running in 201718 | |
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 | Not running in 201718 | |
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) | |
HIST2600 | Brazil and Cuba from Colonies to Republics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2645 | The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2653 | American Business History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2658 | Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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
FOAR2000 | Research Placement | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2500 | Students as Scholars | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2535 | Historical Research Project | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2570 | History in the Media | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following modules:
HPSC2150 | History of Science in 10 Objects | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC2304 | Western Medicine from Antiquity to the Renaissance | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HPSC2307 | Science, Culture and Society in the Industrial Age | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC2400 | History of Psychiatry and Mental Illness | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL2402 | Topics in Epistemology: Theory and Evidence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2600 | Philosophical Issues in Biology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL2611 | How Biology Works | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates must choose at least one of HPSC2150 and PHIL2402. Modules PHIL2600 and PHIL2611 are mutually exclusive.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined students must pass:
- History and Philosophy of Science: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at level 3)
- History: a minimum of 100 credits (at least 60 credits must be at level 3)
The remaining 40 credits can be used for Discovery Modules or further modules in the named subjects.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at Level 3 and all core modules to proceed to gain the degree.
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following modules:
HIST3500 | History Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3000 | Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3001 | Integrated Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PRHS3700 | External Placement: Beyond the University | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following Special Subject modules:
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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3240 | The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-1940 | 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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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) | |
HIST3382 | The Cultural History of Venice, 1509-1797 | 40 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3385 | Gendering the Raj: Women, Imperialism and Nationalism in Colonial and Postcolonial India | 40 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3387 | The Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 | 40 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3388 | Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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 201718 | |
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) | |
HIST3396 | The Hidden Atlantic: Pirates, Sailors, and the Slave Traders, 1807-1867 | 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 | 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 | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3688 | The French Wars of Religion | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3695 | The Korean War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3697 | Colonising Animals: More-than-Human Histories of Empire in Asia | 40 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
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 | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3746 | War on Tribe or War on Terror? Historicizing Afghanistan and Pakistan | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3747 | The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 1979 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3750 | Canada, America and the Origins of the Cold War 1945 - 1949 | 40 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3785 | Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-59 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates who are NOT studying the History dissertation (HIST3500) will be required to study sufficient additional credits from the following optional modules in order to fulfil the programme requirements
HIST3455 | Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3460 | Inventing the Barbarians | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3470 | Memories: Autobiographies and Memoirs as Historical Sources | 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 201718 | |
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 201718 | |
HIST3709 | The Breakdown of Liberal Democracy in Europe, 1890-1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3721 | Europe's Communist Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and its Consequences, 1945-2000 | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3722 | Harold Wilson and the Meaning of Politics in Modern Britain | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3723 | Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3724 | Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST3725 | Heathens and Slaves: Evangelicalism, Race and Empire, 1765-1785 | 20 credits | ||
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) | |
HIST3891 | Sweet Enemies? Britain and France from Waterloo to the Present | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3900 | The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1917-1991 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3999 | Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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 201718 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study sufficient additional credits from the following optional modules to fulfil the programme requirements:
HPSC3200 | Science Communication: History & Theory | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC3315 | History of the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC3450 | Mind, Brain & Society | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3320 | Philosophy of Biology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHIL3851 | Introduction to Philosophy of Modern Physics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3852 | Philosophy of Modern Physics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PHIL3855 | Philosophical Issues in Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
PHIL3851 and PHIL3852 are mutually exclusive.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
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