DPT: Law and History (LLB Hons) (UTLAWHI)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

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).

Before selecting any optional courses please ensure that you have met your Personal Tutor.

Please note, students who may be retaking a compulsory course, or has chosen to do so for professionally qualifying reasons, it is possible that there may be timetable clashes.

Compulsory courses

Scottish Legal System

Must be passed

Public Law of the UK and Scotland

Must be passed

Contract and Unjustified Enrichment

Must be passed

Family Law (Ordinary)

Must be passed

European Union Law (Ordinary) A

Must be passed

Critical Legal Thinking

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Before selecting your optional courses please ensure that you have met your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students wishing to progress towards legal practice should note that passes in the following courses are required to qualify as a solicitor in Scotland: 'Commercial Law (Ordinary) LAWS08131', 'Business Entities LAWS08134', 'Public Law and Individual Rights LAWS08132', 'Evidence (Ordinary) LAWS08141', 'Delict LAWS08135', 'Criminal Law (Ordinary) LAWS08142'; 'Property Law (Ordinary) LAWS08133', and 'Succession and Trust Law LAWS08130'. All 80 credits of optional courses can therefore be drawn from Law Level 8 courses.

Revenue Law

International Private Law Ordinary

Jurisprudence

Succession and Trust Law

Commercial Law (Ordinary)

Public Law and Individual Rights

Property Law (Ordinary)

Business Entities

Delict

Evidence (Ordinary)

Criminal Law (Ordinary)

AND

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

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

AND

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment

History of Science 1

History of Western Medicine

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

Please seek advice from your Personal Tutor before making your course choices.

Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Students who opt to spend their third year abroad will be expected to do the equivalent of 120 credits. All students who spend their third year abroad must also take the compulsory course 'Advanced Legal Writing (Online) LAWS10214'.

Compulsory courses

Advanced Legal Writing

Course options

AND

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

Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640

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

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

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, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

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

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952

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

The United States in the 1960s

The American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx

Early Modern English Witchcraft

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

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

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

The Crusades and Medieval Society

The Third Reich 1933-1945

Machiavelli and His World

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

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

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

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

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

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

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

Mapping Nature, Territories and Cross-Cultural Encounter

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

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

The Severans

The Greek World and Rome

Violence and Disorder in Roman Society, 133-31 BC

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Early Roman Egypt

The History of Republican Italy through Inscribed Objects

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

Macedonia from the Argeads to the Romans

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

The Roman Emperor: the Nature of His Rule

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

Hadrian's Wall and its stakeholders, past and present

A Visual History of the Later Roman World

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

The Punic Mediterranean

The History of North Africa from the Iron Age to the Islamic Conquest

Communities of Byzantine Asia Minor, AD 500-1300

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

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Students who opt to spend their third year abroad will be expected to do the equivalent of 120 credits in year 3. In addition, they will be expected to take the 'Dissertation in Law LAWS10097' and 80 History credits in year 4.