2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Geography and History
Programme code: | BA-GEOG&HIST | UCAS code: | VL17 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Alan MacLeod | Contact address: | a.macleod@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
- AAB at A-level, including grade A in both Geography and History, plus GCSE Mathematics at Grade C. General Studies is not accepted.
- International Baccalaureate: 36 points overall, including 17 at the Higher Level and a minimum of 6 in Geography and 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:
GEOG1031 | Local to Global: Geographies of a Changing World (Joint Honours) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
GEOG1315 | People, Place and Politics (Joint Honours) | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
ODLM1002 | Studying in a Digital Age (Arts) | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students may choose to additionally register for:
GEOG1065 | Nature, Society and Environment | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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 combined students must take:
- Geography: 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 80 credits can be used to ensure that a sufficient total of credits at the appropriate level for award are taken; by taking further modules in the named subjects, or by taking 40 credits of discovery modules
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 'pass for progression' modules to proceed to the next level of the programme
Compulsory modules:
GEOG2561 | Research Methods: Ideas and Practice in Human Geography | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students should normally choose 10-40 credits from the following Geography optional modules.
GEOG2015 | Career Skills in Geography | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2020 | Political and Development Geographies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2025 | Service analysis and planning | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2035 | Geographies of Economies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2038 | Geographies of Economies (international and discovery students) | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
GEOG2040 | Inside European Cities | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
GEOG2046 | The Making of the Modern City | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2051 | The Making of the Modern City: European and Colonial Capitals | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
GEOG2052 | The Making of the Modern City: In Search of Utopia | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
GEOG2055 | Citizenship and Identity: Comparative Perspectives | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2060 | Living within limits: natural resource management for sustainable development | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2140 | Political and Development Geographies: The shaping of the world | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note :
GEOG2140 is mutually exclusive with GEOG2020
GEOG2038 is mutually exclusive with GEOG2035
GEOG2051 is mutually exclusive with GEOG2046
GEOG2052 is mutually exclusive with GEOG2052
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 list below:
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) | |
HIST2035 | Medieval Masculinities: Sex, Violence and Learning 1000-1200 | 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) | |
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) | |
HIST2121 | Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-1870 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2433 | The Global Caribbean, 1756-1848 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
GROUP B
Candidates are required to take 20 credits from the list below:
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 | 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) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2320 | The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | 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 201819 | |
HIST2535 | Historical Research Project | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) |
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:
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits in level 3.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined students must take:
- Geography: 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 80 credits can be used to ensure that a sufficient total of credits at the appropriate level for award are taken; by taking further modules in the named subjects, or by taking up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
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:
Depending on their choice of final year project candidates will normally study 20-60 credits from the following optional modules.
Please note that student who wish to take GEOG3600 and either GEOG3042 or GEOG3550 as their only level 3 Geography modules must secure the permission of the Geography Joint Honours Tutor or the Geography Director of Student Educaton before confirming their module choices.
Candidates will normally study 40-60 credits from the following optional modules:
GEOG3042 | Urban and Regional Development: A Case Study of Athens | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3085 | Contested Cities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3121 | Creating Alternative Futures | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3140 | Advanced Population & Health Geographies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3180 | Management of Wilderness and Global Ecosystems | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3191 | Geocomputation and Location Analysis | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3290 | Geographies of Global Insecurities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3440 | Environment, Conflict and Policy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3550 | Global Cities: Miami | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3981 | Spaces of Migration and Encounter | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Please note that GEOG3042 and GEOG3550 are mutually exclusive.
Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following final year project modules:
GEOG3520 | Workplace Co-operative Project | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3530 | Geographers into Teaching: School Placements | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3601 | Dissertation (Concise) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3615 | Human Geography Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3820 | Research Placement | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3430 | History Long Essay | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3500 | History Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Note: GEOG320 and GEOG3530 are mutually exclusive
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) | |
HIST3220 | Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement | 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) | |
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) | |
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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3388 | Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3391 | De Tocqueville and the Democratic Regime | 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) | |
HIST3498 | Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800 | 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) | |
HIST3650 | Stalin and Stalinism | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3665 | France and Algeria from 1830 to the Present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3695 | The Korean War | 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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3888 | The Global Vietnam War | 40 credits | Semesters 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. Students are permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at level 3.
HIST2500 | Students as Scholars | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2540 | History Students in Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2550 | Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) |
If a level 3 student chooses to study 20 credits below their level of study, these 20 credits must be taken at level 2. Level 1 modules may not be taken at level 3, with the exception of Skills Discovery modules (indicated by the letters 'skd' on the catalogue).
Candidates may study 20 credits from the following list of option modules, depending on the choice of Final Year Project. Candidates must study 60 credits of History at level 3.
HIST3455 | Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3460 | Inventing the Barbarians | 20 credits | ||
HIST3470 | Memories: Autobiographies and Memoirs as Historical Sources | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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 201819 | |
HIST3497 | Printing and Books in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | ||
HIST3510 | Pastors and Prelates: Bishops in England, France and Germany, 950-1100 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3515 | The Baltic Crusades: The Conquest and Conversion of North-Eastern Europe, 1180-1410 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3689 | Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion | 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 201819 | |
HIST3709 | The Breakdown of Liberal Democracy in Europe, 1890-1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3721 | Europe's Communist Dictatorships: Totalitarianism and its Consequences, 1945-2000 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3722 | Harold Wilson and the Meaning of Politics in Modern Britain | 20 credits | ||
HIST3723 | Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3724 | Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3735 | Crime and Punishment in Colonial Southern Asia | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3736 | Caste and Politics in 20th Century India | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3737 | Afterlives of Empire: A History of the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) |
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 which may be taken at any level.
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.
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