Course description
This 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
-History of the United States of America 1776-2004
-Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture I
-Spanish Beginners: Language and Culture II
-The Disenchantment of the European World
-The Making of the Twentieth Century
-The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the Present
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Historians and History
-Advanced Spanish Language I
-Advanced Spanish Language II
-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
-Disease, Medicine and Health Care in Early Modern Europe
-Fascism 1918-1945
-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
-Poor Law to Welfare State: Social Change in Britain since 1800
-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 Struggle for England's Soul: Politics, Religion and Cultural Conflict 1560-1640
-Tolerance and Dissent in Europe (12th - 16th Centuries)
-Warriors, Saints and Heroes in Early Medieval Britain
-Cinema, Nation and Identity in the Hispanic World
-Contemporary Latin America (Cuba)
-Contemporary Latin America (Mexico)
-Cuban Culture and the Revolution
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture I
-Further Portuguese: Language and Culture II
-Hispanic Film and Human Rights
-Intensive Catalan I
-Intensive Catalan II
-Intensive Portuguese I
-Intensive Portuguese II
-Linguistic Developments in Modern Spain
-Narrative Perspectives on Post-Civil War Spain
-Representations of Latin America
-Spain and Enlightenment
-Spanish American 20th-Century Literature I
-Spanish Language in Business Contexts
-The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos
-Troubled Times: Writers and Social Conflict in the Spain of the 1930s
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
-Hispanic Studies Year Abroad (Project)
Typical Fourth Year Modules
Module/Unit
-The Uses of History
-Advanced Spanish Language III
-Advanced Spanish Language IV
