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History

SCQF Level 08 (13 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIST08040 Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000 Not delivered this year 20
HIST08034 SV1 Early Modern History: A Connected World Semester 2 20
HIST08041 SV1 Global Connections since 1450 Semester 2 20
HIST08045 SV1 History of the United States Semester 1 20
HIST08044 SS1 Introduction to Historiography Semester 1 20
HIST08044 SS1 Introduction to Historiography Semester 2 20
HIST08039 SV1 Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500 Semester 2 20
HIST08033 Making of the Modern World Not delivered this year 20
HIST08035 SV1 Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages Semester 1 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 The Making of the United States Not delivered this year 20
HIST08043 SV1 Themes in Modern European History Semester 2 20
HIST08042 SV1 Themes in Scottish History since 1560 Semester 1 20

SCQF Level 10 (134 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIST10442 A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects Not delivered this year 20
HIST10465 SS1 African Intellectual History, c. 1600-1970 Full Year 40
HIST10410 Atlantic Slavery Not delivered this year 20
HIST10360 Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10433 SV1 Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages Semester 2 20
HIST10457 SV1 Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias Semester 1 20
HIST10422 Beyond Dictatorship: Human Rights in Latin America Not delivered this year 20
HIST10409 Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea Not delivered this year 20
HIST10476 SV1 Black Europe: Afropean Experience and Identity in Modern European History Semester 1 20
HIST10116 SV1 Black Nationalism in America Semester 1 20
HIST10460 Book Battles: European Intellectual Culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Not delivered this year 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 British Politics in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1832 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10351 SS1 British Politics in the Shadow of War, 1939 to 1945 Full Year 40
HIST10459 Cartography, Territory, and Indigeneity Not delivered this year 40
HIST10466 Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10053 SV1 China's Twentieth Century Revolutions Semester 2 20
HIST10445 China's long World War, 1931-1953 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10438 SS1 Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds since 1300 Full 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
HIST10453 Conquer or Die: African Americans Writing US History Not delivered this year 40
HIST10412 SV1 Culture and Society in Early Modern China Semester 1 20
HIST10390 SS1 Culture and the Arts in Post-war Scotland Full Year 40
HIST10216 SV1 Currents of Radicalism, 1776-1832 Semester 2 20
HIST10403 SS1 Damnation and redemption in the medieval world: a journey through Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio Full 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
HIST10430 SS1 Disunited kingdoms: why do union states fail? Full Year 40
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 2 20
HIST10435 SS1 Empire of emancipation: the British Empire in the 'age of reform', 1828-1848 Full Year 40
HIST10339 Enlightenment Scotland c.1690 - c.1800 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10431 Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10471 SS1 Feminist Histories of Work from 1750 to WWII Full Year 40
HIST10371 France since 1940 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10344 From New Jerusalem to New Labour: The Labour Party in Contemporary Britain Not delivered this year 20
HIST10395 SV1 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 Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars Not delivered this year 20
HIST10072 Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10368 SS1 Genocide in the Modern World: theories and case studies Full Year 40
HIST10426 SS1 Historical Skills and Methods I Semester 1 20
HIST10425 SS1 Historical Skills and Methods II Semester 2 20
HIST10309 SS1 History Dissertation Full Year 40
HIST10440 SV1 History of the Modern World in 9 Things Semester 1 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
HIST10458 SV1 Indigenous Peoples and Revolution in Modern Latin America Semester 1 20
HIST10197 SV1 Intellectual History from Antiquity to the Renaissance Semester 1 20
HIST10257 SV1 Intellectual History from Montesquieu to Marx Semester 2 20
HIST10049 SV1 Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952 Semester 1 20
HIST10423 Landscapes of Power: Brazil and its Histories Not delivered this year 20
HIST10446 Liberty and Scandal: Culture and Controversy in Britain and America, c.1689-1768 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10361 SV1 Machiavelli and His World Semester 2 20
HIST10032 Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History Not delivered this year 20
HIST10447 Mapping Nature, Territories and Cross-Cultural Encounter Not delivered this year 20
HIST10429 SS1 Medicine and health in the early Middle Ages Full Year 40
HIST10352 Medieval Islamic Empires Not delivered this year 20
HIST10468 SS1 Medieval Voices: Politics, Literature and Society in Early Stewart Scotland. 1371-1488 Full Year 40
HIST10415 SV1 Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean Semester 1 20
HIST10003 Methodology of History 1 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10380 SV1 Modernity and Genocide Semester 1 20
HIST10370 Montaigne and the Late Renaissance Not delivered this year 20
HIST10472 SV1 Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century Semester 2 20
HIST10463 SV1 Paradoxes of American Government from the Founding to the First World War Semester 1 20
HIST10467 SV1 Pictures and Propaganda: The Printed Image in England, 1500-1700 Semester 2 20
HIST10454 Piety, Politics, and Polemic: 'Puritanism' 1558-1660 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10449 SS1 Place and Displacement: Histories of Refugees and Humanitarianism in 20th Century Africa Full Year 40
HIST10418 Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa Not delivered this year 20
HIST10040 SV1 Post-Colonial South Asia Semester 1 20
HIST10461 Postcolonial Indian Diplomacy: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender (1947-Present) Not delivered this year 40
HIST10389 Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10386 SS1 Rational Animals: Human Nature in Early Modern Thought Full Year 40
HIST10452 Resistance, Resilience and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America Not delivered this year 40
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
HIST10337 SV1 Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921 Semester 2 20
HIST10434 SV1 Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965 Semester 1 20
HIST10474 SV1 Slavery in the Early Middle Ages Semester 2 20
HIST10475 SS1 Stage of Extremes: Transformation and Violence in 20th Century Germany Full Year 40
HIST10366 Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10336 SS1 Stalin's Russia, 1921-1941 Full Year 40
HIST10456 Tanzania in the World: A History of Connection and Disconnection, c. 1830-2009 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10437 The 'Other' in Latin American History 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
HIST10473 SS1 The Archival Turn and the Fashioning of Enlightenment, c.1690-1800 Full Year 40
HIST10391 The Bandung Moment: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Asian Connections in the Global Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 40
HIST10356 SV1 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
HIST10424 The Dutch Miracle: The United Provinces in the Golden Age Not delivered this year 40
HIST10450 The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10444 SS1 The Era of the Witness: Trauma in Contemporary History Full Year 40
HIST10448 The Geographies of Solidarity: Eastern Europe, Global South and Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War Not delivered this year 40
HIST10362 The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852: Hunger, Modernity and Exile Not delivered this year 20
HIST10164 SV1 The Holocaust Semester 2 20
HIST10455 The Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture & Society Not delivered this year 20
HIST10441 SV1 The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World Semester 2 20
HIST10281 SV1 The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society Semester 1 20
HIST10427 The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present Not delivered this year 20
HIST10262 The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIST10443 The Order of Nature: Politics of Knowledge from Medieval to Enlightenment Europe Not delivered this year 40
HIST10355 The Origins of the First World War, 1871-1917 Not delivered this year 40
HIST10333 The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10419 SV1 The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939 Semester 2 20
HIST10399 The Power of Religion in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10111 The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10469 The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire? The History of the Anthropocene Not delivered this year 20
HIST10306 SS1 The Rise of the Right in the United States, c.1945-c.1990 Full Year 40
HIST10303 SS1 The Spanish Civil War Full Year 40
HIST10359 SV1 The Third Reich 1933-1945 Semester 2 20
HIST10308 The United States in Vietnam: History and Consequences Not delivered this year 40
HIST10103 The United States in the 1960s Not delivered this year 20
HIST10383 SV1 The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire Semester 2 20
HIST10428 The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages Not delivered this year 20
HIST10462 SV1 Transnational Islam & The African Diaspora Semester 1 20
HIST10451 Unions, Revolutions and Enlightenment: Developments in Political Thought in Early Modern Scotland Not delivered this year 40
HIST10253 United States Foreign Policy 1880-1917 Not delivered this year 20
HIST10341 War and Memory in the Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
HIST10464 SS1 War, Commerce, Liberty, and Empire: European Political Thought, from Mandeville to Marx (c. 1700 - c. 1850) Full Year 40
HIST10349 Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention Not delivered this year 20
CHCA10004 SS1 Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Languages and History Full Year 40
ECSH10104 Crime, Policing and Punishment: Great Britain and Ireland since 1800 Not delivered this year 40
ARCA10083 SV1 Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past Semester 1 20
HIST10379 SV1 Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730 Semester 2 20
ASST10154 SV1 Korean History, Culture, and Society Semester 1 20
REST10056 Religions in Africa 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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