ObjectivesLearn about the philosophical works which provide a theoretical basis for the study of history. The course will also help you to understand the contexts in which some of the great works of philosophy were created.
Entry requirements-GCE/VCE A Levels - ABB (including History) -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - AB (History) +AB -Scottish Highers - AAAB -Irish Leaving Cert. - AABBB -International Baccalaureate - 33 points -Core Requirements - two GCE A Levels including normally a grade B in GCE A Level History
Academic titleBA History and Philosophy
Course descriptionThis is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
-Critical Thinking
-History of the United States of America 1776-2004
-Human Rights
-Matters of Life and Death
-Mind, Brain and Personal Identity
-Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe
-Philosophy of Art and Literature
-The Disenchantment of the European World
-The Making of the Twentieth Century
-The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the Present
-Areas of Philosophy
-History of Philosophy
-Knowledge, Justification and Doubt
-Philosophy of Religion
-Philosophy of Science
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Historians and History
-A Fragile Freedom Won: The African American Experience 1865-1955
-Cold War America
-Colonising America: Europeans and the New World, 1450-1763
-Contesting Power: Social and Political Thought in History
-Decolonisation: Britain's Retreat from Empire
-Descartes and The Empiricists
-Disease, Medicine and Health Care in Early Modern Europe
-Ethics: Theoretical and Practical
-Ethics: Theoretical and Practical
-Fascism 1918-1945
-Feminism
-Formal Logic
-France 1870-1940: Nation Building from Revolution to Military Collapse
-From World War to Cold War: Europe 1945-1968
-Frontiers and Failures: Lost Nations of the Eightenth-Century
-Gender and Sexuality on Modern Britain, 1850 to the Present
-Gender, Culture and Society in Britain 1650-1850
-Gender, Culture and Society: Britain 1689 - 1837
-Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
-Imperialism and Resistance in South Asia, c.1885-1947
-Media and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain
-Paradoxes
-Philosophy of Art and Literature
-Philosophy of Law
-Philosophy of Mind
-Plato
-Political Philosophy
-Political Philosophy
-Poor Law to Welfare State: Social Change in Britain since 1800
-Reference and Truth
-Sacred Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
-Sacred Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
-Southern Africa in the Wider World, 1850-1919
-Spain, 1917-1982
-The Carolingians and the Birth of Europe
-The European Reformation
-The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
-The International History of the State
-The Origins of the American Civil War, 1848-1861
-The Origins of the Second World War: The Failure of Collective Security 1919-1939
-The Rationalists
-The Social Contract
-The Struggle for England's Soul: Politics, Religion and Cultural Conflict 1560-1640
-Theory of Knowledge
-Tolerance and Dissent in Europe (12th - 16th Centuries)
-Topics in Ancient Philosophy
-Topics in Ancient Philosophy
-Warriors, Saints and Heroes in Early Medieval Britain
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-The Uses of History 20
Also available:
- BA History and Politics
- BA History and Russian
- BA History and Sociology