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2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA History and Sociology

Programme code:BA-HIST&SOCIUCAS code:VL13
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:

- ABB at A-level, including A in History, plus GCSE Mathematics. General Studies is not accepted.
- International Baccalaureate: 34 points overall, including 16 at the Higher Level and a minimum of 6 in History at Higher Level.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of History

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Joint Honours

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.

At 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 elective modules in a third subject or 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:

HIST1055Historiography and Historical Skills20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1300Primary Sources for the Historian: An Introduction to Documentary study20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ODLM1002Studying in a Digital Age (Arts)5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP1200Sociology of Modern Societies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP1210Formations of Modernity20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Students may additionally register for the following modules:

SLSP1160Understanding and Researching the City20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP1170Understanding and Researching Contemporary Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.


Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits.

Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:

- Sociology: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be taken at level 3)
- History: a minimum of 100 credits (at least 60 credits must be taken at level 3)

The remaining 60 credits can be used for elective 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.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

SLSP2730Central Problems in Sociology20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following History option modules, including at least one module from each group. These MUST be taken in different semesters.

GROUP A

Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the Group A list below:

HIST2006Small Change and Big Changes: Money and Power in Europe, 284-100020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2030The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2031The Crusades and Medieval Christendom20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2065The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-160320 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2073Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-171520 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2075Urban Experience and Identity in Early Modern Europe20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2080Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2110The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.150020 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2112Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2115Charles the Great to Alfred the Great: Franks, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in the Ninth Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2117Conquerors and Conquered: England, 1000-113520 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2120Environment and Environmentalism in Britain, c. 1750-197220 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2121Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-187020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2125Britain and the Atlantic World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2135Britain and the Industrial Revolution20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2170Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2210English History 1066-1216: Creation and Destruction of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2220The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-175020 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2305Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-185720 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2308Life and Death in British India, 1690-187120 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2433The Global Caribbean, 1756-184820 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

GROUP B

Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the Group B list below:

HIST2077Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-194520 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2079The Republic in Crisis: Conflict and Identity in France since 187020 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2100Victorian England: Old England and Industrial Society 1837-186520 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2101Victorian England: Aristocracy and Democracy, 1865-190120 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2140Imperial Germany 1871-191820 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2152Spain, 1898-1936: Disaster, Reaction and Reform20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST229020th Century Britain: The Burdens of Conflict 1900-194520 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST229120th Century Britain: Progress and Uncertainty 1945-199020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2301The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-199320 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2309Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-8920 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2310Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-191720 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2351The American Century, 1941-198020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2420Nationalism, Colonialism and 'Religious Violence' in India, 1857-194720 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2430The History of Africa since 190020 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2435The Popular Caribbean: A History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2441Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 186520 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2442Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2600Brazil and Cuba from Colonies to Republics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2640Western Europe: From the Dictatorships to European Integration, 1930-199220 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2645The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2653American Business History20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2654Global Business History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2658Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present20 creditsSemester 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.

FOAR2000Research Placement20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2500Students as Scholars20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2535Historical Research Project20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2540History Students in Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2550Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2557Thinking about History20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2560History on the High Street20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2570History in the Media20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students are required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules.

Students wishing to enrol on SLSP3041: Sociology Dissertation at level 3 must have take SLSP2010:

SLSP2010Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLSP2020Crime, Law and Regulation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2040Disability Studies: An Introduction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2062Health and Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2145Crime, Race and Ethnicity20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2150Debates in Childhood and Youth20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2180The Sociology of Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2675Sociology of Work20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2690Racism, ethnicity, migration and decolonial studies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP2953Urban Disorders, Social Divisions and Social Control20 creditsSemester 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 choose to study up to 60 credits of discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits.

Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:

- Sociology: 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 60 credits can be used for elective 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 final year projects. Students wishing to enrol on SLSP3041 must have taken SLSP2010 as a pre-requisite:

HIST3500History Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLSP3041Sociology Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following Special Subject modules:

HIST3220Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3235Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-195240 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3240The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-194040 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3270The Third Reich, 1933-194540 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3287Caribbean Mobilities: Travel, Culture and Politics, 1838-193940 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3290Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.150040 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3300Chartism: Popular Politics and Authority in Northern England, 1838-185840 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3315Citizens of the World: British Merchants in the Long Eighteenth Century40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3330Europe in an Age of Total Warfare40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3332The Spanish Civil War, 1936-193940 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3382The Cultural History of Venice, 1509-179740 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3385Gendering the Raj: Women, Imperialism and Nationalism in Colonial and Postcolonial India40 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3387The Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1945-197040 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3388Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3390The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-196840 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3391De Tocqueville and the Democratic Regime40 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3392Eastern Subjects: British Attitudes to India, 1757-185740 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3395The Troubles: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-Present40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3396The Hidden Atlantic: Pirates, Sailors, and the Slave Traders, 1807-186740 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3580Empire, State and Society: Britain's Imperial Experience, c. 1870-191440 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3590White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3650Stalin and Stalinism40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3665France and Algeria from 1830 to the Present40 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3685Georgians at War40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3686The Tudor Discovery of Russia, 1553-160340 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3688The French Wars of Religion40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3695The Korean War40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3697Colonising Animals: More-than-Human Histories of Empire in Asia40 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3740Alliance Without Backbone: Germany, its Allies and Satellites Before and During World War Two40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3743From Byron to Bin Laden: Transnational War Volunteers40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3745Secret Service: The World of British Intelligence40 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3746War on Tribe or War on Terror? Historicizing Afghanistan and Pakistan40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3747The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 197940 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3785Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-5940 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.


HIST2500Students as Scholars20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2540History Students in Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2550Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST2557Thinking about History20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2560History on the High Street20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2570History in the Media20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

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 special skills Discovery modules.

Candidates will be required to study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules, depending on the choice of final year project, in order to fulfil the programme requirements:

SLSP3101Postcolonialism and Critical Muslim Studies20 creditsNot running in 201718
SLSP3120Disability Rights and the International Policy Context20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP3160Education, Culture and Society20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3220Contemporary Children, Young People and Families20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP3230Global Terrorism and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3910Discipline and Punish20 credits 
SLSP3930Sociology of Consumerism20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3940Class in Everyday Life20 creditsNot running in 201718
SLSP3961Protest and Social Movements20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP3995Ethnicity and Popular Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules, depending on the choice of final year project, in order to fulfil the programme requirements:

HIST3455Consumer Society in Historical Perspective20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3470Memories: Autobiographies and Memoirs as Historical Sources20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3493War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-166020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3495Read All About It! Understanding News, c.1500-Present20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3497Printing and Books in Early Modern Europe20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3510Pastors and Prelates: Bishops in England, France and Germany, 950-110020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3515The Baltic Crusades: The Conquest and Conversion of North-Eastern Europe, 1180-141020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3708Britain, The Empire and the Wider World, c. 1815-1914 (Part 2)20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3709The Breakdown of Liberal Democracy in Europe, 1890-194520 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3710Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3721Europe's Communist Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and its Consequences, 1945-200020 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3722Harold Wilson and the Meaning of Politics in Modern Britain20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3723Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3724Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation20 creditsNot running in 201718
HIST3725Heathens and Slaves: Evangelicalism, Race and Empire, 1765-178520 credits 
HIST3726In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3728The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3732Men and Masculinity in Britain, c.1860-1960: War, Work and Home20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3735Crime and Punishment in Colonial Southern Asia20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3736Caste and Politics in 20th Century India20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3737Afterlives of Empire: A History of the Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3880'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3887Changing Enemies: Germany Occupied and Divided, 1945-5520 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3891Sweet Enemies? Britain and France from Waterloo to the Present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3900The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1917-199120 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3999Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 60 credits of discovery modules over levels 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 03/10/2017

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