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HIS3018 – Citizenship and Gender in Britain 1760-1918
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Matthew McCormack
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Citizenship And Gender In Britain 1760-1918, Coursework: 100% STD - Citizenship And Gender In Britain 1760-1918, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore what it meant to be a citizen in a context where this question was commonly negotiated in terms of what it meant to be a man or a woman. How did Georgians, Victorians and Edwardians conceptualise the duties and attributes of the citizen, and who did they seek to exclude?
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HIS3021 – Movements and Regimes: A Century of Fascism
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Paul Jackson
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Movements And Regimes: A Century Of Fascism (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 60% Exam: 40%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to examine the wide-ranging history of fascist movements throughout the twentieth centuty, as well as the better known history of fascist states in Italy and Germany. It uses theoretical debates on defining fascism, and other key concepts, to structure this comparative survey of the phenomenon.
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HIS3027 – Secret State: British Intelligence, 1558-1945
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Jim Beach
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Secret State: British Intelligence, 1558-1945, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Secret State: British Intelligence, 1558-1945, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore intelligence history, specifically the contribution of the intelligence services to Britain?s security from the early modern period through to the mid-Twentieth Century. It examines foreign intelligence, military intelligence, and security intelligence in both peace and war. Using mostly chronological case studies, the module provides the student with an understanding of how and why intelligence has affected British history.
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HIS3028 – The English Country House, c.1660-1830
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Mark Rothery
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - The English Country House, C.1660-1830, Coursework: 100% STD - The English Country House, C.1660-1830, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop a high level of understanding of the English Country House during the long eighteenth century through hsitoriography and primary sources.
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HIS3037 – The Wars of The Roses
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Rachel Moss
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - The Wars Of The Roses, Coursework: 100% STD - The Wars Of The Roses, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to study a period of transition between the York and Tudor dynasties. Students will gain knowledge of various primary sources, engage with a sophisticated historiography, and consider how the Wars of the Roses have been portrayed since the time of Shakespeare.
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HIS3038 – Jack the Ripper’s London: Crime & Popular Culture in the Late Victorian City
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Drew Gray
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Jack The Ripper'S London: Crime & Popular Culture In The Late Victorian City (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Jack The Ripper'S London: Crime & Popular Culture In The Late Victorian City, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Criminology; BA Criminology (4 Year Programme); BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore the nature of late Victorian urban society through a number of social and cultural historical themes.
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HIS3040 – Cultures of Fascism in Europe and America from Mussolini to the Alt Right
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Paul Jackson
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Cultures Of Fascism In Europe And America From Mussolini To The Alt Right, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Cultures Of Fascism In Europe And America From Mussolini To The Alt Right (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: This module draws on recent debates in the study of fascism to explore a wide variety of movements that have developed variants of `fascist culture? in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It will allow students to critically assess the ways in which political cultures can be identified and analysed as specifically `fascist? based on academic debates, introduce them to a range of taxonomic languages, and explore the topic through a series of case studies.
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HIS3043 – Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth Century Britain and America
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Anne-Marie Kilday
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Murder And Mayhem: Crime In Twentieth Century Britain And America, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Murder And Mayhem: Crime In Twentieth Century Britain And America (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module will be taught through a series of case studies in order to examine specific themes which are especially pertinent to criminal justice history during the modern era. The types of issues to be addressed include the rise to `social? prominence of the serial killer and spree killer; the influence of gang culture on criminal activity; the role of the media in the portrayal of `modern? crime; the legal response to `new? forms of criminality and the debate over the use of the death penalty for violent offences. In a comparative context, students will be able to determine the similarities and differences in the nature and treatment of crime and criminals across the Atlantic during a period of `modernisation? and rapid social change.
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HIS3044 – Using History
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Caroline Nielsen
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Using History (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Using History, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History;
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop the employability of our History graduates. It uses the student?s dissertation process ? the compulsory culmination of their UG intellectual and personal developmental journey ? as a vehicle for enhancing their communication skills towards non-academic audiences. It also provides an opportunity to engage in reflection upon prior experiential learning.
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HIS3045 – Seeing Ghosts? Death and the Supernatural in Britain: 1654 – 1918
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Caroline Nielsen
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Assessment: STD - Seeing Ghosts? Death And The Supernatural In Britain: 1654 - 1918, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Seeing Ghosts? Death And The Supernatural In Britain: 1654 - 1918 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History; BA History (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore key themes in the cultural and social history of attitudes towards death, bereavement, magic and the supernatural in Britain, 1654-1918.
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HIS4001 – Dissertation
Field: HISTORY
Co-ordinator: Jim Beach
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: HIS2028
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - History Dissertation, Coursework: 100% STD - History Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA History;
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to select and develop a historical research question and to complete an independently researched project culminating in a 10,000 word dissertation.