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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

All First year students should make an appointment with their Personal Tutor during Induction Week. Please consider the following courses, and take a draft plan to your meeting.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Politics and International Relations

Political Thinkers

The Historian's Toolkit

Course options

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

AND

British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

The Making of the United States

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met with your Personal Tutor or a Student Support Officer to confirm your course choices and attendance.

If transferring to single honours Politics, student must take 'Introduction to Political Data Analysis'.

This information is correct for students in year 2 in session 17/18. Students entering year 2 in session 18/19 will be required to take Introduction to Historiography.

Compulsory courses

International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Comparative Politics in a Globalized World

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students are strongly encouraged to take Introduction to Historiography.

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Modern United States History

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

Introduction to Historiography

AND

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

AND

Year 3 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours normally requires
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years,
(ii) passes at 50% or above, achieved at the first attempt, in 40 credits of second year History courses and in 40 credits of the compulsory second year Politics courses.

If considering taking the Politics dissertation in Year 4 students are strongly recommended to take 'Research Design in Politics and International Relations'.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in history.

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

History in Practice

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States 1945-1974

Energy, environment and security: energy policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1974

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Earning a Living in the Scottish Town, 1400 to 1800: Occupational History and the Urban Environment

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Post-Colonial South Asia

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Machiavelli and His World

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

History in Theory

Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea

A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750

Culture and Society in Early Modern China

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America

Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

Scotland and the Great War

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

The Scottish Enlightenment: Origins, Contexts and Ideas

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

Global Justice and Citizenship

Approaches to Politics and International Relations

AND

Africa in World Politics

International Political Economy

War and Justice

Politics of the Middle East

Contemporary Russian Politics

Theories of International Relations

EU as Global Actor

Human Rights in International Relations

Europe and International Migration

Zimbabwe: Politics of a Post-Colonial State

Global Politics Of Sex And Gender

Understanding Indian Politics

Political Islam

Parliamentary Studies

Political Work

Global Security

International Politics of Money

Democracy and its Discontents

Public participation in democracy and governance

Public Policy: Agenda-Setting

Research Design in Politics and International Relations

Critical Theory and Cinema

International Relations of the Asia Pacific

What's Wrong with Inequality?

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Nations and Nationalism

Globalization

South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy

Children's Rights

Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Statistical Modelling

Armed Force and Society

Knowledge, Expertise and Policy

Year 4 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a member of staff to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Selected courses must be taken during Full Year

History Dissertation

Dissertation (MA Politics)

AND

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to the present

Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915-1950

The American Civil Rights Movement

The Spanish Civil War

The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences

The American Civil War: History and Memory

Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800

British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945

The Conquest Generation, 1087-1135: England and Henry I

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present

Dreams and nightmares: the culture and politics of postwar Europe, 1945-1975

Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds

British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832

Early Medieval Sexualities, c.500-1000

The European Witch-Hunt

Atlantic Encounters. Scotland and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century

AND

Africa in World Politics

International Political Economy

Politics of the Middle East

Contemporary Russian Politics

Theories of International Relations

Global Justice and Citizenship

Approaches to Politics and International Relations

EU as Global Actor

Human Rights in International Relations

Europe and International Migration

Zimbabwe: Politics of a Post-Colonial State

Global Politics Of Sex And Gender

US Foreign Policy

Understanding Indian Politics

Political Islam

Parliamentary Studies

Political Work

Global Security

International Politics of Money

Democracy and its Discontents

Public participation in democracy and governance

Public Policy: Agenda-Setting

Neuropolitics

British Government

Contemporary Issues in Political Science

Research Design in Politics and International Relations

Contemporary Issues in Political Theory

Critical Theory and Cinema

International Relations of the Asia Pacific

What's Wrong with Inequality?

Nations and Nationalism

Globalization

South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy

Children's Rights

Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Armed Force and Society

Knowledge, Expertise and Policy

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