2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History (International) Year 4 Placement
Programme code: | BA-HISTI9 | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Kevin Linch | Contact address: | k.b.linch@leeds.ac.uk |
Please note: we do not recruit directly to this programme.
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
Candidates transfer to this programme at level 3 after satisfactory completion of BA History at level 2.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of History
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of History
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
History
Programme specification:
History is both a subject and an academic discipline. Students of history attempt to reconstruct and explain the past through the study of its residues, using critical skills and insights particular to the historical profession or drawn from other disciplines. The Leeds School of History is a large Research-led department. It achieved a grade point average of 2.75 rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and lecturers in the School generally teach in their specialist research areas.
The School's programme is notable for both the chronological and geographical range of the options it offers, which include modules in British, European, American and wider World history. Leeds students have access to some of the best library resources in the country. The University's Brotherton Library houses one of Britain's largest historical research collections and is an invaluable resource for student research projects in years two and three.
Students also have easy access from Campus to the British Library branch at Boston Spa, the Leeds Public Library, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the West Yorkshire District Archives. As Leeds History graduates develop advanced skills in critical thinking, information handling, research and communication skills, they are highly sought after by leading employers in fields as diverse as Law, the media and accountancy, as well as more subject orientated careers such as the heritage industry, archivism and teaching.
The programme will:
- offer students the opportunity to undertake historical study successfully abroad.
- provide students with tools for the critical interpretation of both secondary and primary texts.
- equip students with extensive background and comparative historical knowledge of a number of chronological periods and cultures or geographic regions.
- offer students a wide choice of specialist topics covering many periods, approaches and cultures, based on the research specialisms of staff in the School and their foreign host institution.
- equip students with a broad awareness of general developments in historiography, and in depth knowledge of the historiography of their specialist areas.
- expose students to a variety of the approaches and conceptual tools of some of the sub-disciplines of the historical profession, which may include social history, economic history, cultural history, gender history and political history.
- equip students with the skills and opportunity to conduct autonomous supervised research projects, including a primary source or historiographically based dissertation.
- develop students' competency at communicating their ideas by a variety of methods, including oral presentations, essays and a research-based dissertation.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
HIST1000 | Exploring History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:
HIST1310 | The Medieval World in Ten Objects | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1320 | Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:
HIST1520 | Global Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1530 | The Making of the Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:
HIST1060 | Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1510 | Global Empires | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of discovery modules outside the School in place of the option modules listed above.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:
GROUP A MODULES
HIST2030 | The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2045 | Transformations of the Roman World | 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) | |
HIST2090 | Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2105 | Medieval Romans and the shape of Afro-Eurasia today | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2110 | The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500 | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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) | |
HIST2220 | The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2315 | Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857 | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
MEDV2085 | Medieval Narratives in the Modern World: Nationalism, Terrorism, Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
AND at least 40 credits from the following modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:
GROUP B MODULES
HIST2103 | Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2140 | Imperial Germany 1871-1918 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2301 | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2320 | The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST2353 | America and the Sixties | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST2360 | Bass Culture in Modern Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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) | |
HIST2595 | Curiosities and Monstrosities: Stuff on Display in Britain, c. 1753-1851 | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST2645 | The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day | 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.
GROUP C MODULES
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2505 | Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2575 | Legal Fictions of Slavery, A Documentary | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST2580 | Slavery Studies Through Autobiography | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST2590 | Public History and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 |
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 take up to 40 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
HIST3500 | History Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
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) | |
HIST3002 | Back to School in the Middle Ages: Schools, Teachers and Pupils in north-western Europe 700-1200 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3005 | The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1922 | 40 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST3015 | Indonesia from Revolution to Dictatorship, 1945-1967 | 40 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST3025 | History of the Manuscript Book in the Digital Age | 40 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST3220 | Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement | 40 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3270 | The Third Reich, 1933-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3290 | Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.1500 | 40 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3330 | Europe in an Age of Total Warfare | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3360 | Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3388 | Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education | 40 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3392 | Eastern Subjects: British Attitudes to India, 1757-1857 | 40 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3395 | The Troubles: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-Present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3440 | The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3550 | Exploration, Conflict and Cultural Encounter in Early European Expansionism | 40 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
HIST3650 | Stalin and Stalinism | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3695 | The Korean War | 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 | Not running in 202223 | |
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) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the option modules listed below:
HIST3100 | British Politics and Society in the First World War | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3251 | Twentieth Century Southeast Asia: From Empire to Independence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3453 | The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007 | 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 | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3530 | Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic | 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 202223 | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3728 | The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3790 | Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3877 | The World of Terror | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
HIST3880 | 'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3999 | Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MEDV3411 | Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students may take 40 credits of MEDV modules, 20 credits in lieu of a core HIST option module, with prior permission from the Head of the School of History.
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.
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2240 | Hands on Heritage | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2505 | Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2710 | Public Historians: Applied History, People’s History and the Uses of the Past | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students at level 3 may choose up to 20 credits of modules below their level. 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).
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Optional modules:
For Study Abroad Students
If you register for Study Year Abroad, you will select HIST9001 Study Abroad and you will be expected to select mostly History courses at a non-UK University.
HIST9001 | Study Year Abroad | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
OR
For Horizon Year Abroad Students
If you register for Horizon Year Abroad, you will take LEED9000 Horizon Year Abroad (100 credits) and you will also be required to register for MODL3150 Intercultural Communication and Global Citizenship: A Critical Approach for the Horizon Year Abroad (20 credits). Both of these modules must be passed.
LEED9000 | Horizon Year Abroad | 100 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3150 | Intercultural Communication and Global Citizenship: A Critical Approach for the Horizon Year Abroad | 20 credits | 1 Jun to 30 Sep |
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