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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018

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

After enrolling on your courses, please be sure to meet with your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

Social Policy and Society

Must be passed

Politics of the Welfare State

Must be passed

Fundamentals: Social Policy 1

Must be passed

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

Must be passed

British Economic and Environmental History since 1900

Must be passed

Course options

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

Students who have passed 240 credits and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year degree courses are entitled to progress to honours.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Compulsory courses

European Social Policy

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Fundamentals 2: Social Policy

Must be passed

Evidence, Politics and Policy

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

The Making of the Modern Body

Global Connections since 1450

Course options

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

Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours.

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Students must take at least 40 credits in Economic and Social History and at least 40 in Social Policy.

Compulsory courses

Analytical Perspectives in Social Policy

Course options

History in Practice is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in Economic and Social History.

History in Practice

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

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

Early Modern English Witchcraft

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

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

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

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

Scotland and the Great War

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

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

History in Practice

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

AND

Global Politics of Public Health

Political Work

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Educational Politics and Policy

Children's Rights

Social Inequality and the Life Course

Governing The Social

Labour Market Policy in Europe

Population Health and Health Policy

Contemporary Feminist Debates

AND

Global Politics of Public Health

Political Work

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Educational Politics and Policy

Children's Rights

Social Inequality and the Life Course

Governing The Social

Labour Market Policy in Europe

Population Health and Health Policy

Contemporary Feminist Debates

AND

History in Practice

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

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

Early Modern English Witchcraft

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

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

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

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

Scotland and the Great War

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

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

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

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

Course options

If the dissertation in History is chosen, the topic must be in Economic and Social History.

History Dissertation

Dissertation (MA Social Policy)

AND

Global Politics of Public Health

Political Work

Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

Educational Politics and Policy

Children's Rights

Social Inequality and the Life Course

Governing The Social

Labour Market Policy in Europe

Population Health and Health Policy

Contemporary Feminist Debates

AND

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

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

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

'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History

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

Early Modern English Witchcraft

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780

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

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

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

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

The European Witch-Hunt

Scotland and the Great War

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

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

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