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Degree Programme Table: Law and History (LLB Hons) (UTLAWHI)

Year 1, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Students wishing to pursue qualification to progress towards legal practice in Scotland should note the courses required as indicated in the Degree Programme Table for the LLB Honours (years 1 and 2).


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 6 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    LAWS08128 Scottish Legal System As available 20
    LAWS08123 Public Law of the UK and Scotland As available 20
    LAWS08127 Contract and Unjustified Enrichment As available 10
    LAWS08126 Family Law (Ordinary) As available 10
    LAWS08125 European Union Law (Ordinary) A As available 10
    LAWS08139 Critical Legal Thinking As available 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST08001    British History 1   40  
    SCHI08010    Medieval Scottish History   20  
    SCHI08014    Early Modern Scottish History   20  

     


    Year 2, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure that you have met your Personal Tutor.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LAWS08129    Jurisprudence   10  
    LAWS08132    Public Law and Individual Rights   10  
    LAWS08134    Business Entities   10  
    LAWS08133    Property Law (Ordinary)   20  
    LAWS08131    Commercial Law (Ordinary)   20  
    LAWS08130    Succession and Trust Law   10  
    LAWS08119    International Private Law Ordinary   10  
    LAWS08118    Revenue Law   10  
    LAWS08135    Delict   10  
    LAWS08141    Evidence (Ordinary)   10  
    LAWS08142    Criminal Law (Ordinary)   10  

    Notes:Students wishing to progress towards legal practice should note that passes in the following courses are required to qualify as a solicitor in Scotland: Delict, Public Law and Individual Rights, Business Entities, Evidence and Criminal, Property, Commercial, Succession and Trust Law.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCHI08011    Modern Scottish History   20  
    SCHI08012    Scottish History since 1914   20  
    HIST08026    Introduction to Medieval Europe 2A   20  
    HIST08027    Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B   20  

    Notes:For candidates intending to proceed to Honours in Law and History 'Introduction to Medieval Europe 2A and 2B' should be selected. For candidates intending to proceed to Honours in Law and Scottish History 'Modern Scottish History' and 'Scottish History since 1914' should be selected.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:For students wishing to proceed towards the legal profession in Scotland, these 40 credits may be taken in law courses.
     


    Year 3, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    LAWS10157 Advanced Legal Methods As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LAWS10086    Commercial Law   40  
    LAWS10083    Company Law   40  
    LAWS10078    Contract   40  
    LAWS10056    Criminology   40  
    LAWS10044    European Institutions   40  
    LAWS10075    Family Law   40  
    LAWS10059    Gender and Justice   40  
    LAWS10096    Trusts and Succession Law   40  
    LAWS10090    Constitutional Law   40  
    LAWS10137    EU Law Honours   40  
    LAWS10084    Property Law   40  
    LAWS10142    Human Rights   40  
    LAWS10048    International Law A: The Individual and International Law   40  
    LAWS10123    Criminal Law A: Harm, Offence and Criminalisation   40  
    LAWS10093    Media Law   40  
    LAWS10135    European Union Regulation of Culture and the Mass Media   40  
    LAWS10146    International Private Law Honours   40  
    LAWS10171    International Law and Global Affairs   40  
    LAWS10122    Criminal Law B: Doctrine and Theory   40  
    LAWS10066    Comparative Law   40  
    LAWS10064    Law, Democracy and Citizenship   40  
    LAWS10190    Freedom of Expression Law Clinic   40  
    LAWS10087    Intellectual Property   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LAWS10156    Fundamentals of Competition Law   20  
    LAWS10153    Economic analysis of corporate finance law   20  
    LAWS10151    EU and UK Equality Law   20  
    LAWS10149    Law, Culture and Rights in a Transnational World   20  
    LAWS10163    Principles of Taxation   20  
    LAWS10162    The Law of Fiduciary Duties   20  
    LAWS10160    Issues in Child Law   20  
    LAWS10166    Fundamental Issues in Medical Jurisprudence   20  
    LAWS10165    Contemporary Issues in Medical Jurisprudence   20  
    LAWS10168    Global Environmental Law   20  
    LAWS10169    WTO Law   20  
    LAWS10158    The Law of Promise   20  
    LAWS10181    The Origins of Modern Commerce   20  
    LAWS10179    The Practice of Legal Argument   20  
    LAWS10177    Commercial Leases   20  
    LAWS10176    Neuroscience and the Law   20  
    LAWS10175    Asylum and Refugee Law and Policy   20  
    LAWS10172    Private Law Theory   20  
    LAWS10189    Current Issues in EU Law   20  
    LAWS10186    Lords and Vassals in Medieval Scotland   20  
    LAWS10184    Negligence Law (Honours)   20  
    LAWS10183    Personality Rights: Scots Law in a European Context   20  
    LAWS10185    Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Scotland   20  
    LAWS10167    Administrative Law   20  
    LAWS10188    Foundations of Modern Sovereignty   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10116    Black Nationalism in America   20  
    CHCA10001    History in Practice   20  
    CHCA10003    History in Theory   20  
    HIST10074    Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades   20  
    HIST10049    Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952   20  
    HIST10032    Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History   20  
    HIST10003    Methodology of History 1   20  
    HIST10040    Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   20  
    HIST10333    The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    ECSH10016    Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    ECSH10004    Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880   20  
    ECSH10083    Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830   20  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   20  
    ECSH10070    Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970   20  
    HIST10208    Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970   20  
    ECSH10008    Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713   20  
    HIST10281    The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society   20  
    HIST10338    The French Revolution   20  
    HIST10164    The Holocaust   20  
    HIST10151    Pre-Revolutionary America   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  
    HIST10343    Contemporary British Conservatism   20  
    HIST10352    Medieval Islamic Empires   20  
    ANHI10007    The Severans   20  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   20  
    ANHI10012    The Greek World and Rome   20  
    ANHI10013    The World of St Augustine   20  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   20  
    ANHI10022    Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC   20  
    ANHI10026    The Emperor in the Late Roman World   20  
    ANHI10052    Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome   20  
    ANHI10053    Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire   20  
    ANHI10058    Law and Life of Rome   20  
    SCHI10012    Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland   20  
    HIST10261    Early Modern English Witchcraft   20  
    HIST10257    Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx   20  
    HIST10031    The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890   20  
    ECSH10087    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949   20  
    ECSH10062    Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974   20  
    HIST10359    The Third Reich 1933-1945   20  
    ECSH10017    Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    HIST10362    The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile   20  
    HIST10364    Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy   20  
    HIST10361    Machiavelli and His World   20  
    HIST10376    Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10371    France since 1940   20  
    HIST10379    Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730   20  
    ECSH10091    London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture   20  
    SCHI10073    Scotland and the Great War   20  
    HIST10348    The Crusades and Medieval Society   20  
    HIST10377    A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror   20  
    SCHI10072    Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland   20  
    HIST10381    Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge   20  
    HIST10344    From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain   20  
    HIST10342    Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars   20  
    HIST10374    God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750   20  
    HIST10370    Montaigne and the Late Renaissance   20  
    HIST10160    Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England   20  
    HIST10382    Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    HIST10366    Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941   20  
    SCHI10074    The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974   20  
    HIST10383    The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire   20  
    HIST10253    United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917   20  
    HIST10384    Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  

     


    Year 4, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    LAWS10097 Dissertation in Law As available 40




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10083    Britain and the Second World War   40  
    HIST10305    Britain in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1815   40  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  
    HIST10360    Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780   40  
    HIST10306    The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990   40  
    HIST10372    In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present   40  
    HIST10334    The American Civil War: History and Memory   40  
    SCHI10018    Highland Problems,1851 to 1953   40  
    SCHI10017    Clan Campbell and the Lordship of the Isles in the Later Middle Ages   40  
    HIST10385    Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975   40  
    HIST10092    Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950   40  
    HIST10368    Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies   40  
    HIST10356    The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry 1   40  
    HIST10388    Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500   40  
    SCHI10075    Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century   40  
    HIST10390    Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland   40  
    HIST10391    The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century   40  
    HIST10392    The United States and the Nuclear Proliferation Problem, 1945-2015   40  
    HIST10386    Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought   40  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10083    Britain and the Second World War   40  
    HIST10305    Britain in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1815   40  
    HIST10339    Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800   40  
    SCHI10021    The European Witch-Hunt   40  
    SCHI10018    Highland Problems,1851 to 1953   40  
    SCHI10017    Clan Campbell and the Lordship of the Isles in the Later Middle Ages   40  
    SCHI10075    Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century   40  
    HIST10390    Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland   40  

     



    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    HIST10116    Black Nationalism in America   20  
    CHCA10001    History in Practice   20  
    CHCA10003    History in Theory   20  
    HIST10074    Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades   20  
    HIST10049    Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952   20  
    HIST10032    Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History   20  
    HIST10003    Methodology of History 1   20  
    HIST10040    Post-Colonial South Asia   20  
    HIST10302    Restoration Spain, 1875-1923   20  
    HIST10337    Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921   20  
    HIST10333    The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860   20  
    ARCA10035    The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans   20  
    ECSH10016    Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    ECSH10004    Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880   20  
    ECSH10083    Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830   20  
    ECSH10088    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949   20  
    ECSH10070    Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970   20  
    HIST10208    Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970   20  
    ECSH10008    Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713   20  
    HIST10281    The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society   20  
    HIST10338    The French Revolution   20  
    HIST10164    The Holocaust   20  
    HIST10151    Pre-Revolutionary America   20  
    HIST10262    The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe   20  
    HIST10343    Contemporary British Conservatism   20  
    HIST10352    Medieval Islamic Empires   20  
    ANHI10007    The Severans   20  
    ANHI10011    Roman Slavery   20  
    ANHI10012    The Greek World and Rome   20  
    ANHI10013    The World of St Augustine   20  
    ANHI10016    Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty   20  
    ANHI10022    Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC   20  
    ANHI10026    The Emperor in the Late Roman World   20  
    ANHI10052    Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome   20  
    ANHI10053    Persica: Ancient Greek Historians and the Persian Empire   20  
    ANHI10058    Law and Life of Rome   20  
    SCHI10012    Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland   20  
    HIST10261    Early Modern English Witchcraft   20  
    HIST10257    Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx   20  
    HIST10031    The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890   20  
    ECSH10087    Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949   20  
    ECSH10062    Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974   20  
    HIST10359    The Third Reich 1933-1945   20  
    ECSH10017    Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640   20  
    HIST10362    The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile   20  
    HIST10364    Ming China (1368-1644) and its Cultural Legacy   20  
    HIST10361    Machiavelli and His World   20  
    HIST10376    Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989   20  
    HIST10005    The Fall of Rome   20  
    HIST10371    France since 1940   20  
    HIST10379    Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730   20  
    ECSH10091    London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture   20  
    SCHI10073    Scotland and the Great War   20  
    HIST10348    The Crusades and Medieval Society   20  
    HIST10377    A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror   20  
    SCHI10072    Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland   20  
    HIST10381    Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge   20  
    HIST10344    From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain   20  
    HIST10342    Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars   20  
    HIST10374    God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750   20  
    HIST10370    Montaigne and the Late Renaissance   20  
    HIST10160    Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England   20  
    HIST10382    Politics and Power in Post-Colonial Africa   20  
    SCHI10064    Scottish Politics since 1906   20  
    HIST10366    Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941   20  
    SCHI10074    The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974   20  
    HIST10383    The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire   20  
    HIST10253    United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917   20  
    HIST10384    Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe   20  
    HIST10303    The Spanish Civil War   40  

     



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