2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History and Thai Studies
Programme code: | BA-HIST&THAI | UCAS code: | VT1H |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Martin Thomas | Contact address: | m.thomas@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
Entry requirements:
For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
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]
In Level 1 students must study 120-125 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in History and 60-65 credits in Thai Studies, plus a 20 credit cornerstone module.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
EAST1703 | Basic Thai Language and Culture 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST1704 | Basic Thai Language and Culture 2 | 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) | |
MODL1070 | World Histories | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
EAST1051 | History and Culture of Imperial China | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
EAST1052 | History and Culture of Early Imperial China | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST1053 | History and Culture of Late Imperial China | 10 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
EAST1070 | Modern China | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST1080 | Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST1263 | Japan in War and Peace | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST1265 | Japan: History and International Politics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST1266 | Japan: A Cultural History from Buddhism to Murakami Haruki | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST1450 | Foundations of East Asia | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
EAST1500 | Introduction to Religious and Philosophical Texts of East Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST1550 | Introduction to East Asian Religions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.
MODL1500 | LCS Academic Essentials | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Candidates will spend the second year of the programme in Thailand.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be enrolled on the following module:
EAST9013 | Year Abroad in Thailand | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in History and 60 credits in Thai Studies. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as 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).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
EAST2008 | The Making of Modern Thailand | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST2704 | Intermediate Thai Language and Culture 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST2705 | Intermediate Thai Language and Culture 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following optional modules, at least one module from each semester, at least one module from each list:
Candidates are required to study at least 40 credits of History modules, to include 20 credits from each group, across different semesters.
Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the list below:
HIST2005 | Rule and Reform under Charlemagne and his Successors, 768-987 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
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 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2120 | Environment and Environmentalism in Britain, c. 1750-1972 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2121 | Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, 1660-1870 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2125 | Britain and the Atlantic World | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2135 | Britain and the Industrial Revolution | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2160 | Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe, 11th - 15th Centuries | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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 | ||
HIST2210 | English History 1066-1216: Creation and Destruction of the Anglo-Norman Kingdom | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2421 | Southeast Asia, c. 1350-1880: from Commerce to Conquest | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST2433 | The Global Caribbean, 1756-1848 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates are required to study 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) | |
HIST2117 | Conquerors and Conquered: England, 1000-1135 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2293 | Britain in the Shadow of the Second World War, 1938-1954 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2310 | Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-1917 | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2422 | Southeast Asia c.1880-1970: From Colonial Rule to Cold War | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST2600 | Brazil and Cuba from Colonies to Republics | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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.
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in History and 60 credits in Thai Studies, plus at least 20 credits as a Final Year Project module which can be taken in either of 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).
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
EAST3732 | Advanced Thai Language and Culture I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST3733 | Advanced Thai language and Culture II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
HIST3430 | History Long Essay | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3310 | Final Year Project: Extended Essay | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3320 | Final Year Project: Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules. (They are strongly recommended to take EAST3707 Buddhism: a Lived Tradition)
EAST3020 | Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector in Contemporary China | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST3035 | Energy Security: Global and Asian Perspectives | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
EAST3140 | Chinese Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST3252 | Modern Japanese History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST3702 | Religion in Japan | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST3703 | South East Asia in the Global Context | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST3707 | Buddhism: A Lived Tradition | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FOAR3150 | Religion and Violence | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Not all modules will be available every year.
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 | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
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 | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3300 | Chartism: Popular Politics and Authority in Northern England, 1838-1858 | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST3352 | Cultural Encounters: Spain, Portugal and the Wider World in the Late Middle Ages | 40 credits | ||
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 201819 | |
HIST3387 | The Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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 | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3391 | De Tocqueville and the Democratic Regime | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3392 | Eastern Subjects: British Attitudes to India, 1757-1857 | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST3590 | White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST3685 | Georgians at War | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3686 | The Tudor Discovery of Russia, 1553-1603 | 40 credits | ||
HIST3687 | The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3688 | The French Wars of Religion | 40 credits | ||
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 201819 | |
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) | |
HIST3746 | War on Tribe or War on Terror? Historicizing Afghanistan and Pakistan | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
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 | ||
HIST3785 | Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-59 | 40 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
HIST3888 | The Global Vietnam War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
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