2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History and Sociology
Programme code: | BA-HIST&SOCI | UCAS code: | VL13 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Will Jackson | Contact address: | w.jackson@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 120 credits in level 1.
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:
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) | |
SLSP1200 | Sociology of Modern Societies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP1210 | Formations of Modernity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students may additionally register for the following modules:
SLSP1160 | Understanding and Researching the City | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP1170 | Understanding and Researching Contemporary Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students may additionally choose from the following modules ro fulfil their remaining credits:
HIST1045 | Empire and Aftermath: The Mediterranean World from the Second to the Eighth Centuries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1060 | Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1090 | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1210 | The Modern World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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:
- 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 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:
SLSP2730 | Central Problems in Sociology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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:
HIST2005 | Rule and Reform under Charlemagne and his Successors, 768-987 | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
HIST2080 | Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2110 | The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500 | 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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2117 | Conquerors and Conquered: England, 1000-1135 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2135 | Britain and the Industrial Revolution | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2170 | Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2308 | Life and Death in British India, 1690-1871 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2315 | Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2434 | The Global Caribbean, 1641-1848 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV2085 | Medieval Narratives in the Modern World: Nationalism, Terrorism, Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
GROUP B
Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the Group B list below:
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 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2309 | Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2310 | Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-1917 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2353 | America and the Sixties | 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) | |
HIST2432 | Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939 | 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) | |
HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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.
CSER2207 | Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2308 | Life and Death in British India, 1690-1871 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 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:
FOSS2001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2010 | Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP2020 | Crime, Law and Regulation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2040 | Disability Studies: An Introduction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2050 | The Sociology of Gender | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2145 | Crime, Race and Ethnicity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2150 | Debates in Childhood and Youth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2180 | The Sociology of Culture | 20 credits | Semester 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 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 and take SLSP3095 as a co-requisite:
HIST3500 | History Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP3041 | Sociology Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP3095 | Research Skills for your Dissertation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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) | |
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 | 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) | |
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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3395 | The Troubles: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-Present | 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) | |
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) | |
HIST3687 | The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire | 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) | |
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 | 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) | |
HIST3785 | Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-59 | 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.
CSER2207 | Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2505 | Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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. Students who have NOT taken their Final Year Project with Sociology MUST take 40 credits from the list below.
FOSS3001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP3075 | Disability and Development | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3211 | State Crime and Immorality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3220 | Contemporary Children, Young People and Families | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3230 | Global Terrorism and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3500 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3995 | Ethnicity and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following list of modules, depending on the choice of final year project. (Students are required to study 60 credits of History modules in level 3).
HIST3100 | British Politics and Society in the First World War | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
HIST3450 | American History, American Historians | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3455 | Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3493 | War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3515 | The Baltic Crusades: The Conquest and Conversion of North-Eastern Europe, 1180-1410 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3689 | Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3734 | Missionaries, Abolitionists and Colonial Philanthropists: Evangelical Attitudes to Empire, 1765-1865 | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
HIST3735 | Crime and Punishment in Colonial Southern Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3877 | The World of Terror | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV3411 | Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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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