📖Program Curriculum
The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Defining Moments in World History c.1000-2000
Why Politics Matters
Modern Democracies
OPTIONAL MODULES
Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature
Childhood Policy and Education
Understanding Learning
Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling
Reading Literature
History Media Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
Medieval Europe and Its World
The American Past: Explorations in U.S. History
Why Politics Matters
Education in Britain:past present future
Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry
Literature as History: Writing the Americas
Global Warming or a New Ice Age?
Modern History
The Early Modern World 1490-1700
Debates in American Politics
Introduction to International Relations
Modern Democracies
The Changing World: A History of International Relations since 1945
Justice Authority and Power
Introduction to Global Political Economy (GPE)
Social and Political Theory
Securing Global Order
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Sources and Debates in History
OPTIONAL MODULES
Saints and Society in Medieval Europe
Natural Cultures: Humans and their Environments since 1700
Creating Britain 1536-1707
A Very Short History of Socialism
Rebels and Revolutionaries in Colonial American History (1607-1776)
Work Placement for Humanities Students
Castle and Cloister in Medieval Europe c. 900-1250
Company and Crown in India 1818-1928: the cultural history of the Raj
The History of the Camp: From the GULAG to The Jungle
'Shining City on a Hill'? The United States in the Twentieth Century
U.S Government and Politics
British Government and Politics
International Organisation: Mitigating Anarchy
African Politics (Level 5)
The International Politics of the Middle East: A Century of War and Diplomacy
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF EURASIA: Challenges of Globalisation and Geopolitics
Freedom and Equality
Environmental Politics and Policy
Why Policy Changes
Contemporary International Relations Theory
The Politics of the European Union
Foreign Policy
Year three modules
OPTIONAL MODULES
The English Civil War c.1640-46
Gender and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
Crisis Rupture and Opportunity: German 'Modernity' 1900-1933 I
The contested city: a spatial history of Rome 1870-1978
The Making of Contemporary Africa since c.1945
'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America
Violence and Power in Antebellum America
Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students
Dissertation for History - ISP
From Sawbones to Social Hero? Doctors and medicine 1808-1886
The Art of Dying: Death and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sites of Sexual Conflict in South Asia I
The Making of Middle Britain: The Mercian Moment
Extinction: Existential Panic since 1945
'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America (Part II)
The Missing Dimension : Conspiracies Spying and International Relations
The U.S. Presidency
The Extreme Right in Western Europe
Politics of Development
Parliamentary Studies
The Rise of China
Dissertation in Politics and IR - ISP
Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Policing International Order
Human Rights: Concepts Norms and Identities
Contemporary Democratic Theory
Israel/Palestine: Key Debates and Issues
Britain and war since 1945: War Cold War and society
