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2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA History and Music

Programme code:BA-HIST&MUSCUCAS code:VW13
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:

- ABB at A-level, including A in History and B in Music if offered.
- 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 and a minimum of 6 in Mathematics at Higher Level (if offered).

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

School of History

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

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 120 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)

Optional modules:

Candidates must study at least 40 credits from the following modules:

MUSS1020Understanding Music
Pre-requisite for: MUSS2020
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1120Music in History and Culture
Pre-requisite for: MUSS2520
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1125Music Research Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1220Composition
Pre-requisite for: MUSS2220
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1320Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1620Sound, Technology, and Music20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1920Introduction to the Psychology of Music20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:

MUSS1324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemesters 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 taken combined students must pass:

- Music: 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 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.

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from 'Group A' and 20 credits from 'Group B'. These MUST be taken in different semesters.

GROUP A

Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the 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)
HIST2035Medieval Masculinities: Sex, Violence and Learning 1000-120020 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)
HIST2080Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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)
HIST2121Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-187020 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST2135Britain and the Industrial Revolution20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2170Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2220The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-175020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2305Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-185720 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2308Life and Death in British India, 1690-187120 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2433The Global Caribbean, 1756-184820 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

GROUP B

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

HIST2077Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-194520 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2079The Republic in Crisis: Conflict and Identity in France since 187020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2320The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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)
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 201819
HIST2535Historical Research Project20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST2540History Students in Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2550Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise20 creditsNot running in 201819
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)

Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. Candidates must ensure that they take modules that are prerequisites for any modules they anticipate taking at level 3. Candidates will not usually take more than one Music in Context or Music in Practice module (MUSS2820/2822/2823/2825). If you are thinking about taking more than one please consult your personal tutor first, as this has consequences for your module choices at level 3.

MUSS2020Interpreting Music
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3040
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2220Composition
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3240
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2320Performance
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3340
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2420Notation and Editing
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3440
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2520Aesthetics and Criticism
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3540
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2620Music Technology Skills and Techniques
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3640
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2721Music in Context A20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS2722Music in Context B20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS2820Music in Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS2822Music in Practice20 creditsNot running in 201819
MUSS2823Music in Practice20 creditsNot running in 201819
MUSS2825Opera North: Opera in Practice20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2920The Psychology of Listening and Performance
Pre-requisite for: MUSS3940
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2925Music Students into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates may not take more than one of the following modules as part of their core 40 credits of music: MUSS2320: Performance; MUSS2324: Ensemble Performance. The other performance module may be taken as a discovery, however.

Students are only permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at levels 2 and 3.

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.


Year3 - View timetable

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

Students must study 120 credits.

Over levels 2 and 3 taken combined students must pass:

- Music: 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 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 following final year projects:

HIST3500History Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3140Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

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

HIST3001Conquest, Convivencia and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Spain, 711-121240 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3220Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3240The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-194040 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3260Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Africa: Uganda's Kingdoms 1862-196440 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3270The Third Reich, 1933-194540 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 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3388Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3391De Tocqueville and the Democratic Regime40 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)
HIST3498Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.180040 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3580Empire, State and Society: Britain's Imperial Experience, c. 1870-191440 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3650Stalin and Stalinism40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3665France and Algeria from 1830 to the Present40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3695The Korean War40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
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 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3747The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 197940 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST3888The Global Vietnam War40 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. Students are permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at level 3.

HIST2500Students as Scholars20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST2540History Students in Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2550Research Collaboration, Communication and Enterprise20 creditsNot running in 201819
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)

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 who have NOT chosen to do their Final Year Project in Music MUST study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. Candidates must study at least 40 credits in Music at level 3:

MUSS3040Analysing Music40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3121Special Study in Musicology A20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS3122Special Study in Musicology B20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS3240Composition40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3325Applied Project20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3340Performance40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3440Editing and Source Studies40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3540Contemporary Aesthetics40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3640Music Technology40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3940Music Psychology40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following modules, depending on their choice of Final Year Project. (Students are required to study 60 credits of HIstory modules in Level 3).

HIST3455Consumer Society in Historical Perspective20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3470Memories: Autobiographies and Memoirs as Historical Sources20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3493War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-166020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3495Read All About It! Understanding News, c.1500-Present20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3497Printing and Books in Early Modern Europe20 credits 
HIST3510Pastors and Prelates: Bishops in England, France and Germany, 950-110020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3515The Baltic Crusades: The Conquest and Conversion of North-Eastern Europe, 1180-141020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3689Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3708Britain, The Empire and the Wider World, c. 1815-1914 (Part 2)20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3709The Breakdown of Liberal Democracy in Europe, 1890-194520 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3710Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3723Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3724Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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 2 (Jan to Jun)
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 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3735Crime and Punishment in Colonial Southern Asia20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3736Caste and Politics in 20th Century India20 creditsNot running in 201819
HIST3737Afterlives of Empire: A History of the Present20 creditsNot running in 201819
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 both level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 28/03/2019

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