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Master of Arts (Honours) Latin and Modern History


MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
Elementary Latin 1 20
Elementary Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 ) AND
World of Latin 1 20
World of Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 AND
Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Over the first two years, at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.


MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( * View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
Latin Language and Literature 1 20
Latin Language and Literature 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
* View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 AND
Latin in Progress 1 20
Latin in Progress 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Choose 120 credits in the academic year. Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in at least 1 of the modules marked *
MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
* History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Over the first two years, at least 40 credits must be gained in modules other than those in the ranges AN, HI, ME, MH, MO and DI2006.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • an average grade of 11 or above at first sitting must be attained in certain requisite 2000 level modules marked * Qualified Entry to Honours requires; a grade of 4.0 or above in each of the requisite modules marked * and passing the Honours Entry examinations for the modules marked * in which a student did not previously achieve a grade of 11.0 or above, such that the conditions for automatic entry to Honours Entry are met when the best grade now achieved in each module marked * is considered. An Honours Entry examination can only be taken in the same academic year as the first completed enrolment in the relevant requisite module.

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989 AND
Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 ) OR
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4109 Death in Roman Culture 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AN4136 Alexander the Great 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-362 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4153 Religious Change in Late Antiquity 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4602 From Classical Temple to Christian Basilica 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

Pathway A
90 credits - LT4000-LT4989,(LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME3303, MO3001 - MO3795
The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
The Northern Renaissance 30
Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
The Library, a Fragile History 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
Walking Early Modern Europe 30
The History of History in East Asia 30
Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715 - 1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3218 The American Revolution 30
The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
Revolutions, Nationalism and Reaction: 1848 - Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3340 British Industrialisation (1700-1840) 30
MO3341 The United States (1783-1896) 30
MO3342 The French Revolution (1787-1795) 30
MO3343 Business in Great Waters...: Ships and Seafarers, 1700-1914 30
MO3344 Science and Nation-Building in Europe (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3347 Radical Politics in England 30
MO3348 'Army with a Country'? The Military and Militarism in Prusso-German History (1640 - 1945) 30
The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3355 Colonizing Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 30
Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 30
The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 30
Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.


MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794) AND
Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
Latin Dissertation 30
CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Dissertation in Latin for Study Abroad Programmes 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: (ID4002 + CL4990), AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989(exc CL4794-CL4795),GK4000-GK4989,LT4000-LT498 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4109 Death in Roman Culture 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AN4136 Alexander the Great 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-362 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4153 Religious Change in Late Antiquity 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Senecan Tragedy and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4602 From Classical Temple to Christian Basilica 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
Dissertation in Latin for Study Abroad Programmes 60
Latin Dissertation 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

Pathway A
90 credits - LT4000-LT4989,(LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Yearonly
In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Modern History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: MO4801 - MO4995 OR
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
MO4852 Experiencing the Past in the Middle East 60
Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
Blood, Glory, Judgement: Early Modern Catholicism 60
Madness and its Social Milieu in Britain (1560 - 1820) 60
MO4910 'The German Hercules' - Martin Luther and Germany, 1517 - 2000 60
French Absolutism: Richelieu to Louis XIV 60
MO4914 The German Enlightenment in European Perspectives 60
Russians Making History (1755 - 2000) 60
Bismarck: Biography - Politics - Mythology 60
MO4937 Charles Darwin and the Politics of Progress 60
MO4938 Progress and Reform: The United States (1880 - 1930) 60
Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1936 - 1959 60
MO4940 Britain in the Era of the Great War 60
Modern India: From Empire to Republic (1917 - 1950) 60
The Kennedy Years 60
MO4959 British Cinema History (1920 - 1960) 60
France and Africa in the Twentieth Century: Colonialism, Anti-colonialism, Post-colonialism 60
Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe 60
MO4966 Religion and Society: Protestant Europe 1500 - 1650 60
Elizabethan England: Politics, Religion, and Personalities (1558 - 1603) 60
Curiosity, Empire and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 60
Revolutions and Empires (1776 - 1848) 60
MO4971 The City in East and Southeast Asia c. 1850 - 1950 60
MO4972 Understanding Resistance and Protest in Modern India (c.19th - 21st centuries) 60
Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place 60
The British Town in the Long Eighteenth Century 60
Print, Progress and Public opinion. Towards a New History of Print Culture in Early Modern Europe 60
India in Global Political and Social Thought: The Long Nineteenth Century 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project in History 30
Honours Dissertation in History 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ME3303, MO3001 - MO3795 AND
The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3019 The Life of the Mind: Key Texts in European Thought (1512 - 1697) 30
MO3025 Empire and Nation: The Development of Colonial British America 1607 - 1770 30
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe 1400 - 1750 30
Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
The Northern Renaissance 30
Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3049 Political Thought From Machiavelli to Tocqueville 30
MO3050 The Northern World (1523 - 1725) 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
The Library, a Fragile History 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
Walking Early Modern Europe 30
The History of History in East Asia 30
Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715 - 1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3218 The American Revolution 30
The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3222 French Fancy and Cool Britannia? Franco-British Cultural Relations from Seven Years' War to French Revolution 30
Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
Revolutions, Nationalism and Reaction: 1848 - Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3323 Splendid Isolation or Continental Commitment? Britain and Europe (1814 - 1914) 30
MO3325 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath 1873-1952 (Independent Study) 30
MO3327 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Independent Study) 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3340 British Industrialisation (1700-1840) 30
MO3341 The United States (1783-1896) 30
MO3342 The French Revolution (1787-1795) 30
MO3343 Business in Great Waters...: Ships and Seafarers, 1700-1914 30
MO3344 Science and Nation-Building in Europe (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3347 Radical Politics in England 30
MO3348 'Army with a Country'? The Military and Militarism in Prusso-German History (1640 - 1945) 30
The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3355 Colonizing Asia: An Economic Study of Colonialism in Asia and its Consequences 30
Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3381 French Algeria (1830-1962) 30
Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3386 Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911) 30
The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3419 The French 'Civil Wars' of the Twentieth Century 30
The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3508 America and Vietnam 30
MO3513 Heavenly Decade: The 1960s 30
MO3514 The Life and Times of the Atom Bomb 30
Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Communication in History 15
Presenting the Past 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

HI4999 requires permission from the Chair of the Degree Committee.
With the permission of the Director of Teaching, 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced with ID4002 with HI4101.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.


Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).