DPT: English Language and History (MA Hons) (UTENGLH)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

PLEASE NOTE: THIS DEGREE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AND FROM 2018/19 IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO NEW ENTRANTS

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English

Must be passed

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

Must be passed

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

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

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It is recommended that students take at least 20 credits of further LEL2 courses.
An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Notes: Progression to Honours requires (1) an *average* of 50% across all obligatory LEL2 courses, achieved at the first attempt, (2) a minimum of 40% in each obligatory LEL2 course, achieved at the first or second attempt and a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt.

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

Course options

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

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

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

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, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

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

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

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 American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

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

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

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

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

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The LEL Honours handbook giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning. Students MUST consult this handbook regarding the selection of 'core' courses.

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