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Undergraduate History (Level 3)

Programme Structure

Modern History Single Honours Plan
Students are required to take SIX modules (120 credits) from the list below (THREE in semester 1 and ONE in semester 2) plus the dissertation (worth 2 modules). For the provisional timetable see the bottom of this page.

Modern History Joint Honours Plan
Students are required to take THREE modules (60 credits) from list below and students also choose THREE modules (60 credits) from their joint subject. For the provisional timetable for modules please see the bottom of this page.

Major History and another subject (for students entering before September 2012)
Students are required to take EITHER FOUR modules (80 credits) from the list below (TWO in semester 1 and TWO in semester 2) OR TWO modules from the first semester list plus the dissertation in the second semester (worth 2 modules).  For the provisional timetable see the bottom of this page.

Minor History (for students entering before September 2012)
Students are required to take TWO modules (40 credits) from the list below.  Students also choose FOUR modules (80 credits) from their major subject. Please see below for the provisional module timetable.

Course/Module Descriptions (2012-13)

 Autumn

Semester 1

Spring

Semester 2
HIS3010 The Second World War in Europe    
HIS3011 The Peasants' Revolt, 1381    
HIS3016 Society and Politics in Belfast c.1780–c.1918 HIS3112  Heretics and Social Outcasts in the Middle Ages
HIS3033 The Vast Catastrophe': The Great Famine of the 1840s       
HIS3042 Britian and the Cold War, 1945-1991 HIS3018 Popular Culture in England 1500-1700
HIS3065 Presbyterianism in Ulster, 1690-1840 HIS3022  Origins of the Reformation 1517-1617
HIS3083 Going Places HIS3035 The American Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS3084 Oliver Cromwell, 1649 - 1658 HIS3039 Soviet Russia, 1921–1964
HIS3086 Family Gender and Household HIS3041 African American Women's History(
HIS3110 Religion, Secularization and Conflict in Modern Europe 1789 to the Present HIS3073 The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
E)HIS3113 The Age of Justinian  HIS3077 Dissertation – This is compulsory for Single Honours History students
HIS3116

Lincoln and American History

 HIS3099 Modernity in Mission: Overseas Christian Expansion 1858-1980s
   

Timetables

Provisional Lecture timetable for level 2 and level 3 (semester 1) [download - word doc]
Provisional Lecture timetable for level 2 and level 3 (semester 2) [download - word doc]