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Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2013/14

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Level of study Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
'Savages' or 'Innocents'? Childhood and the State, 1780-1914 (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25012 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
A Body of Evidence: Forensic Medicine in Britain (Level I Special Field) HIST20043 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Academic and Mystical Approaches to God AFACM1004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Approaches to History HISTM2009 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Approaching the Past HIST13015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-1
Behind the Wall: Living in East Germany (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25020 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History) HIST38018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Bristol, c. 1000-1542 HISTM0006 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Britain's Cold War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14018 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Childhood and the Nazis (Level H Special Subject) HIST30023 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Colonial Disorders (Level H Special Subject) HIST30013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Combat Motivation: Why Do Soldiers Fight? (Level H Reflective History) HIST38008 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Communist Worlds HIST30019 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39012 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Crusading in the Middle Ages HIST10020 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Cultural identities in medieval Spain HIST30018 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Death HIST30017 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field) HIST26008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Decolonising Health (Level H Reflective History Unit) HIST30014 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History) HIST38010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Discovering America (Level H Reflective History) HIST38016 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Dissertation HISTM1000 60 Masters/7 Not open AYEAR
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Honours/6 Not open TB-4
Drink and Disorder in Early Modern England (Level C Special Topic) HIST10017 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Enlightenment Europe (Level C Special Topic) HIST14005 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Special Field) HIST26026 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Expectations of the End (Level C Special Topic) HIST14007 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Filming the Past HIST30021 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Group Project HIST23021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History and Literature HIST20039 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History) HIST38013 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response) HIST39009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Holocaust and its Aftermath (Level C Special Topic) HIST14008 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Ideology, Poverty and Famines HISTM2017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Introduction to Early Modern History HIST13012 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-2
Introduction to Medieval History HIST13011 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Introduction to the History of the British Empire: Rise, Fall and Legacies HIST13014 20 Certificate/4 Open TB-1
Jewish Experience in Modern European History (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20044 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Living with Defeat: Occupied France 1940-1944 HISTM0041 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Madness and Empire HISTM0004 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Madness: A Modern History (Level C Special Topic) HIST10029 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Making History Public HISTM2016 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Medieval English Lifestyles (Lecture Response Unit) HIST20028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Modern Places (Level H Reflective History) HIST38019 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
New Labour in its Historical Context HISTM2011 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Plague, Politics and Society: England 1348-1400 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14021 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Politics and Society in Contemporary Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25007 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Postcolonial Africa: Politics, Society and Culture (Level I Special Field) HIST26027 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History) HIST38006 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Propaganda (Level H Reflective History) HIST38020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Public History in Theory and Practice HISTM0023 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Race and Criminality (Level H Lecture Response Unit) HIST30015 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-2
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) HIST37010 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37004 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject) HIST30024 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Research Methods HISTM2010 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Researching History HIST33122 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
Rethinking History HIST23101 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20021 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Revolution and Theory: British Political Thought 1603-1689 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14001 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Rise and Fall of European Colonialism (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HIST20027 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Rome after Rome HIST10023 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25003 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Social Protest in Modern Britain (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25011 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) HIST26024 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Field Project HIST23008 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Special Topic Project HIST13003 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
Supervised Individual Study HISTM1019 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Supervised Individual Study 2 HISTM0038 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
Thatcherism's Legacy: The Political Economy of Britain Since 1990 (Level H Special Subject) HIST37009 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The American Civil War (Level C Special Topic) HIST14015 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field) HIST26004 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The Apocalypse in Culture and Society (1000-1500) HISTM0032 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-2
The Birth of Modern America: The United States, 1917-29 (Level C Special Topic) HIST14030 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Creation of Modern Africa (Level C Special Topic) HIST14010 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Cultural History of the Book, 1300 - 1559 HIST10022 20 Certificate/4 Not open TB-2
The Good, The Bold and The Handsome? Power, Patronage and Piety in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy HISTM0028 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
The Holocaust and Historians (Level I Lecture Response) HIST25013 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1
The Intellectual Culture of the Twelfth Century (Level H Special Subject) HIST37001 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Legacy of Magna Carta HIST30020 20 Honours/6 Not open TB-1
The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field) HIST26010 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
The University in Western Europe and the USA since 1800 (Level I Special Field) HIST26028 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
Themes in Contemporary History HISTM0014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Themes in Cultural and Intellectual History HISTM2014 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Themes in the History of Colonialism HISTM0017 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
Universities Since 1945: Mass Higher Education and the Rise of the Global University HISTM2020 20 Masters/7 Not open TB-1
War Crimes (Level I Special Field) HIST20025 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-2
War and Society HIST20035 20 Intermediate/5 Not open TB-1

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