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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History and Modern History


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: AH1001, AH1003 AND
Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800 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) Art History (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* Modernity, Empire, and Revolution: Art from 1789-1900 20 AND
* Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in 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

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *

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) Art History (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795) AND
Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
Aspects of Surrealism 30
Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
The Portrait in Western Art 30
Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
Communication in Art History 15
Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
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
MO3027 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
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
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
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
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
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
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
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
Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
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
MO3346 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
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
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
Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 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
The Third Reich: History and Historiography 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
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
History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 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
MO3583 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) Art History (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH4097, AH4099, AH4794 - AH4795 AND
60-Credit Honours Dissertation in Art History 60
30-Credit Dissertation in Art History 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 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 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899, ID4002
Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
Aspects of Surrealism 30
Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
The Portrait in Western Art 30
Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
Communication in Art History 15
Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
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

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
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
MO4853 Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
MO4903 Blood, Glory, Judgement: Early Modern Catholicism 60
MO4904 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
British Cinema History (1920 - 1960) 60
France and Africa in the Twentieth Century: Colonialism, Anti-colonialism, Post-colonialism 60
MO4965 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
MO4968 Curiosity, Empire and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 60
Revolutions and Empires (1776 - 1848) 60
Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia 60
Understanding Resistance and Protest in Modern India (c.19th - 21st centuries) 60
Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place 60
MO4974 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
MO4977 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
MO3027 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
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
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
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 African Americans in Slavery and Freedom, 1620 - 1865 30
Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
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
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
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
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
Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
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
MO3346 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
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
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
Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 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
The Third Reich: History and Historiography 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
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
History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 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
MO3583 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
HI4101 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 ).