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Degree Programme Table: Economic History (MA Hons) (UTECNHI)

Jump to: Year 4

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

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

Note that the topic for HIST10309 History Dissertation must be in Economic History.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits

Course options

Economic History Special Subjects and Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to 1929
ECSH10109 40 credits
Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921
HIST10337 20 credits
Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention
HIST10349 20 credits
Slavery in the Early Middle Ages
HIST10474 20 credits
Borders, Frontiers and State-Making in Africa c.1750 to the Present
HIST10487 40 credits
Slavery and Forced Labour in the British Atlantic World
HIST10488 20 credits
Globalisation Before Modernity? The World of the Silk Roads, 900-1400
HIST10490 40 credits
Global Asia: Contact, Exchange and Colonialism in the Early Modern World
HIST10491 20 credits
Transatlantic Disability Histories, c. 1700-1990
HIST10536 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Special Subjects and Electives in Economic History and/or Social History

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to 1929
ECSH10109 40 credits
Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921
HIST10337 20 credits
Wine in Global History: Regulation, Consumption and Contention
HIST10349 20 credits
The Archival Turn and the Fashioning of Enlightenment, c.1690-1800
HIST10473 40 credits
Slavery in the Early Middle Ages
HIST10474 20 credits
'Sexperts' and Scientific Publics in the Global Twentieth Century
HIST10486 40 credits
Borders, Frontiers and State-Making in Africa c.1750 to the Present
HIST10487 40 credits
Slavery and Forced Labour in the British Atlantic World
HIST10488 20 credits
Globalisation Before Modernity? The World of the Silk Roads, 900-1400
HIST10490 40 credits
Global Asia: Contact, Exchange and Colonialism in the Early Modern World
HIST10491 20 credits
Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality
HIST10492 20 credits
Britons at War: The Construction of Identities in the Two World Wars
HIST10507 40 credits
Transatlantic Disability Histories, c. 1700-1990
HIST10536 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

Economics Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Economics Level 10 courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
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