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History

SCQF Level 08 (17 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIST08028 Asia and Africa 2a: Societies, Cultures, and Empires, c. 1600-1880 Not delivered this year 20
HIST08029 Asia and Africa 2b: Nationalisms, Liberation Movements and the Legacies of Colonialism, c. 1880-Present Day Not delivered this year 20
HIST08040 SV1 Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000 Semester 2 20
HIST08034 SV1 Early Modern History: A Connected World Semester 2 20
HIST08041 SV1 Global Connections since 1450 Semester 1 20
HIST08044 SS1 Introduction to Historiography Semester 1 20
HIST08027 Introduction to Medieval Europe 2B Not delivered this year 20
HIST08039 SV1 Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500 Semester 2 20
HIST08033 SV1 Making of the Modern World Semester 2 20
HIST08035 SV1 Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages Semester 1 20
HIST08038 SV1 Modern United States History Semester 2 20
HIST08032 SS1 The Historian's Toolkit Semester 1 20
HIST08036 SV1 The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City Semester 2 20
HIST08037 SV1 The Making of the United States Semester 1 20
HIST08043 SV1 Themes in Modern European History Semester 1 20
HIST08042 SV1 Themes in Scottish History since 1560 Semester 1 20
ECHS08010 SV1 Christianity in Formation 100-313 Semester 1 20

SCQF Level 10 (130 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIST10355 The Origins of the First World War, 1871-1917 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10377 A 'Special Relationship'?: US-UK Relations From World War II to the War on Terror Not delivered this year 20
HIST10411 SV1 A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750 Semester 2 20
HIST10291 Africa: Migration and Identity Not delivered this year 20
HIST10367 Animals and Humans, c. 1300- c. 1800 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10410 Atlantic Slavery Not delivered this year 20
HIST10360 SS1 Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780 Full Year 40
HIST10422 SV1 Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America Semester 1 20
HIST10422VV1 Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America Semester 1 20
HIST10409 SV1 Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea Semester 2 20
HIST10116 SV1 Black Nationalism in America Semester 2 20
HIST10058 Britain and the Falklands War Not delivered this year 20
HIST10083 Britain and the Second World War Not delivered this year 40
HIST10417 SS1 British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832 Full Year 40
HIST10351 SS1 British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945 Full Year 40
HIST10170 Catholic Christendom, 1450-1650 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10100 Charlemagne and his World: Society and Empire in Western Europe C.750-900 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10307 Charlemagne and his World: Society, Culture and Empire in Frankish Europe c.750-900 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10053 China's Twentieth Century Revolutions Not delivered this year 20
HIST10413 Chinese Whispers: China in the Western Imagination, from c. 1600 to the present Not delivered this year 40
HIST10358 Colonial Wars and Modernizing Missions: Europe's violent Transformations of the non-European World in the 20th Century Not delivered this year 40
HIST10250 Coming to America: Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States, 1820-1930 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10376 Confrontation, Proliferation, Representation: The Nuclear Cold War in Policy and in Public, 1945-1989 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10343 Contemporary British Conservatism Not delivered this year 20
HIST10412 SV1 Culture and Society in Early Modern China Semester 2 20
HIST10390 Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland Not delivered this year 40
HIST10400 Cultures of Disaster: History and the Environment, ca. 1400-1750 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10403 Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio Not delivered this year 40
HIST10396 Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation Not delivered this year 20
HIST10388 Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10381 Digital History and the shaping of historical knowledge Not delivered this year 20
HIST10347 Discovering the individual: Medieval auto/biography, c.1050-1200 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10408 Doing history in the digital age Not delivered this year 20
HIST10385 SS1 Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975 Full Year 40
HIST10420 SS1 Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000 Full Year 40
HIST10261 SV1 Early Modern English Witchcraft Semester 1 20
HIST10261VV1 Early Modern English Witchcraft Semester 1 20
HIST10393 East Central Europe 1800-2000: Between Empires and Nation States Not delivered this year 20
HIST10339 SS1 Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800 Full Year 40
HIST10371 France since 1940 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10113 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal Not delivered this year 20
HIST10344 SV1 From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain Semester 1 20
HIST10344VV1 From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain Semester 1 20
HIST10395 SV1 From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928 Semester 1 20
HIST10395VV1 From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928 Semester 1 20
HIST10092 SS1 Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950 Full Year 40
HIST10342 SV1 Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars Semester 1 20
HIST10342VV1 Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars Semester 1 20
HIST10279 SV1 Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe Semester 1 20
HIST10279VV1 Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe Semester 1 20
HIST10072 SV1 Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 Semester 1 20
HIST10072 SV1 Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 Semester 2 20
HIST10072VV1 Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 Semester 1 20
HIST10368 Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies Not delivered this year 40
HIST10387 Global Histories of Terrorism: Perspectives and Case-Studies in the Modern Era Not delivered this year 20
HIST10374 God, Nature and Knowledge: The History of Philosophy, c. 1650-1750 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10309 SS1 History Dissertation Full Year 40
HIST10407 SS1 History in Theory Semester 1 20
HIST10353 History of South Asian Cinema: 1913-Present Not delivered this year 20
HIST10208 Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10372 SS1 In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present Full Year 40
HIST10039 SV1 India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot Semester 2 20
HIST10197 SV1 Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance Semester 1 20
HIST10197VV1 Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance Semester 1 20
HIST10257 Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx Not delivered this year 20
HIST10074 Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades Not delivered this year 20
HIST10049 SV1 Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952 Semester 1 20
HIST10049VV1 Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952 Semester 1 20
HIST10423 SV1 Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories Semester 2 20
HIST10361 SV1 Machiavelli and His World Semester 2 20
HIST10032 SV1 Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History Semester 1 20
HIST10032VV1 Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History Semester 1 20
HIST10398 Medicine and health in Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours Not delivered this year 20
HIST10280 Medicine, Science and Politics at the Courts of Early Modern Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIST10352 SV1 Medieval Islamic Empires Semester 1 20
HIST10352 SV1 Medieval Islamic Empires Semester 2 20
HIST10352VV1 Medieval Islamic Empires Semester 1 20
HIST10415 SV1 Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean Semester 1 20
HIST10003 Methodology of History 1 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10394 Modern Jewish History: Experiences and Agency in Central and Eastern Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIST10380 Modernity and Genocide Not delivered this year 20
HIST10370 Montaigne and the Late Renaissance Not delivered this year 20
HIST10160 Plague, Politics and Protest: Rebellion and Society in Fourteenth-century England Not delivered this year 20
HIST10405 Politics and Culture in the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10418 SV1 Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa Semester 1 20
HIST10418VV1 Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa Semester 1 20
HIST10040 SV1 Post-Colonial South Asia Semester 2 20
HIST10151 Pre-Revolutionary America Not delivered this year 20
HIST10389 SV1 Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814 Semester 1 20
HIST10389VV1 Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814 Semester 1 20
HIST10386 Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought Not delivered this year 40
HIST10101 SV1 Renaissance Italians Semester 2 20
HIST10302 Restoration Spain, 1875-1923 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10404 SS1 Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds Full Year 40
HIST10416 SV1 Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 Semester 1 20
HIST10416VV1 Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 Semester 1 20
HIST10337 SV1 Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921 Semester 2 20
HIST10406 South Asian Intellectual History: Empire, Society and Nation, 1789-1947 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10366 SV1 Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941 Semester 1 20
HIST10366VV1 Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941 Semester 1 20
HIST10336 Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10154 The Age of Jefferson: Republicanism in the United States, c.1776-1826 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10155 SS1 The American Civil Rights Movement Full Year 40
HIST10334 SS1 The American Civil War: History and Memory Full Year 40
HIST10117 The American South since the Civil War Not delivered this year 20
HIST10391 The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 40
HIST10356 SS1 The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I Full Year 40
HIST10378 The Continental Commitment: British Foreign Policy toward Europe in the Era of the Great War Not delivered this year 20
HIST10348 SV1 The Crusades and Medieval Society Semester 1 20
HIST10348 SV1 The Crusades and Medieval Society Semester 2 20
HIST10348VV1 The Crusades and Medieval Society Semester 1 20
HIST10421 SV1 The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History? Semester 2 20
HIST10424 The Dutch Miracle: The United Provinces in the Golden Age Not delivered this year 40
HIST10152 The Era of the American Revolution, 1754-1789 Not delivered this year 40
SCHI10021 SS1 The European Witch-Hunt Full Year 40
HIST10005 The Fall of Rome Not delivered this year 20
HIST10338 The French Revolution Not delivered this year 20
HIST10031 The Frontier in American History, 1763-1890 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10362 The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile Not delivered this year 20
HIST10164 SV1 The Holocaust Semester 2 20
HIST10402 The Lands Between: Eastern Europe from the Partitions of Poland to the Fall of Communism Not delivered this year 40
HIST10281 The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society Not delivered this year 20
HIST10262 SV1 The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe Semester 2 20
HIST10333 The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10419 The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10399 The Power of Religion in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10111 SV1 The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990 Semester 2 20
HIST10306 The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10303 SS1 The Spanish Civil War Full Year 40
HIST10359 SV1 The Third Reich 1933-1945 Semester 1 20
HIST10359VV1 The Third Reich 1933-1945 Semester 1 20
HIST10254 The United States and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War Not delivered this year 20
HIST10392 The United States and the Nuclear Proliferation Problem, 1945-2015 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10308 SS1 The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences Full Year 40
HIST10103 SV1 The United States in the 1960s Semester 1 20
HIST10103VV1 The United States in the 1960s Semester 1 20
HIST10383 SV1 The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire Semester 2 20
HIST10397 SV1 The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE Semester 1 20
HIST10397VV1 The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE Semester 1 20
HIST10253 United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10283 Venice c. 1400 - c. 1700 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10341 SV1 War and Memory in the Twentieth Century Semester 2 20
HIST10349 Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention Not delivered this year 20
HIST10384 Worlds of Diplomacy: Culture and Power in Modern Europe Not delivered this year 20
CHCA10004 SS1 Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Languages and History Full Year 40
SCHI10075 SS1 Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century Full Year 40
ECHS10015 SV1 Byzantine Church and Society 451-1672 3/4 Semester 1 20
ECHS10021 SV1 Children and the Church: Popular Education and Child Welfare in England and Scotland, 1800-1900 Semester 1 20
SCHI10072 Death and Taxes: Finance and Politics in Early Modern Scotland Not delivered this year 20
ARCA10083 SV1 Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past Semester 1 20
ARCA10083VV1 Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past Semester 1 20
ECHS10017 Medieval Religion in Scotland, c1400-c1560 Not delivered this year 20
ECSH10087 Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949 Not delivered this year 20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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