Download Module Choice: BA History Final Year

Department of
History
Module Choices Guidance
BA History Final Year
Timetable and key dates
18th February
4.00pm Module choices talk in K4U.12
From 22nd February
Consult module descriptions on website (www.kcl.ac.uk/history/modules) and seek
advice from your personal tutor and/or other members of staff.
From 11th March
Online module choice form goes live.
1st April
Online module choice form closes.
Early May
You will receive confirmation of the modules on which you have been allocated a space.
Overview
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You are expected to study a total tariff of 120 credits in your final year. All single-honours final-year
students must take a Group 3 module and the associated dissertation totalling 60 credits (Section A), as
well as a 30-credit Thematic Special Subject module (Section B). You must also either choose to write a 30credit Free-standing Long Essay or choose 30 credits at level 5/6 (Section C).
There are a limited number of places available on each module and places will be allocated randomly.
When you choose your modules, you must make 5 ranked choices for each of sections A-C. You will be
allocated to one module per section. You have to be prepared to study any of your 5 choices.
Some modules have prohibited combinations (clearly marked on the attached list). This means that you
cannot take both modules during the course of your degree. Also, if you are interested in taking an
intercollegiate module on a similar topic to a module you are taking or have taken at King’s, you will need to
check with the department office whether that particular combination is permitted. If you are unsure,
please do ask!
You are not permitted to choose any level 5 module(s) that you have already taken in your second year.
Modern language modules
 You have the option of taking a 15 credit language module, which will be taught free of charge at the King’s
Modern Language Centre (MLC). If you choose this option you must attend the MLC enrolment where a
language tutor will assess your knowledge of the language in order to place you in the appropriate module.
This is a compulsory process. MLC enrolment takes place in September 2016.
 The 15 credit language module must be taken as part of your tariff of 120 credits (as a choice in Section C) and
it will count towards your overall degree result.
 All 15 credit language modules are taught over both semesters (unlike the 15-credit History modules, which
either run in semester 1 or in semester 2).
 The MLC also run evening language classes, which you must pay for and which do not count towards your
degree result. To find out more please contact the MLC directly www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/evening/
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Intercollegiate modules (i.e. outside King’s: UCL, SSEES, Royal Holloway (RHUL), Goldsmiths or Queen Mary (QMUL))
 Places on intercollegiate modules are limited to 1 King’s student per Level 6 module and 2 King’s students per
Level 5 module.
 The intercollegiate timeslots are Monday 2pm – 4pm for Group 3 / Level 6 modules and Thursday 2pm – 4pm
for Group 2 / Level 5 modules. All intercollegiate modules are scheduled for these slots unless indicated with
an asterisk (**) on the module list. If you choose one of these asterisked modules (at RHUL and Goldsmiths) be
aware that a timetable clash may occur and you will then have to drop one of the clashing modules.
 We cannot guarantee that all of the intercollegiate modules on offer will run in 2016/17, due to factors beyond
the Department’s control. We therefore recommend that you make at least one internal (i.e. King’s) choice per
section.
 Many intercollegiate modules have attendance requirements. Thus at UCL if you attend less than 70% of the
lectures/seminars you will not be allowed to complete the module and your results will suffer. This rarely
happens, but it is something you need to be aware of.
 Deadlines and methods of assessment for intercollegiate modules may be different from King’s modules.
Please ensure you take note of this when choosing modules.
 Please note where your module will be taught, e.g. the main campus of Royal Holloway is in Egham, Surrey,
which is a 45-minute train journey from Waterloo.
 We reserve the right not to let a student take an intercollegiate module should we deem their
performance/attendance to be unsatisfactory.
Timetabling
 The 2016/17 timetable will be based upon the least number of clashes generated by your module choices.
 Please be prepared for the fact that once the timetable is published it may have proved impossible to avoid all
clashes, and in exceptional cases students may have to switch modules.
 Intercollegiate modules are obviously not part of the King’s timetabling process. In the case of Group 2 and 3
modules taught in the intercollegiate slots there should not be clashes – however, you will still need to ensure
that you establish the date on which teaching starts and the timing of reading weeks, which may differ from
those at King’s.
What if I change my mind after 1st April?
 If you change your mind about which modules you want to take, you will be unable to apply to change your
modules until after the timetable is published in August 2016. After this date, you will be able to apply to change
your modules by consulting the timetable and completing a Module Change Request Form available on the
website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/choice/change-form.aspx. Do not assume
that your application will automatically be approved. You will be notified of the outcome of your application via
email, which will be sent to your @kcl.ac.uk email address.
 The final deadline for submitting Module Change Request Forms for full-year, semester 1 and language modules
will be at the start of October 2016.
 The final deadline for submitting Module Change Request Forms for semester 2 modules is to be confirmed.
Where can I find out more about the modules?
 Please see the websites below for module descriptions. Please note that you may see descriptions for all the
modules that a department has on its books, not all of which will run in any one academic year. You should
therefore make sure you consult the lists below to check which modules are available in 2016/7:
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King’s History modules: www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/index.aspx
Intercollegiate modules: www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses
King’s MLC modules: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/study/modules/index.aspx
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Section A - Group 3 & Intercollegiate (& Associated Dissertation) Modules 60 credits –
Please rank 5 choices
6AAH3007
6AAH3011
6AAH3015
6AAH3017
6AAH3019
6AAH3023
6AAH3027
6AAH3029
6AAH3033
6AAH3035
6AAH3037
6AAH3039
6AAH3043
6AAH3053
SSEES
SSEES
SSEES
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
UCL
UCL
UCL
UCL
UCL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
QMUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
King’s Modules
The Origins of Reformation in England
Britain's Thatcher
Caribbean Intellectual History: c. 1800 to the present
British Imperial Policy and Decolonisation, 1938-1963
Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy
Carolingian Europe c.750-900 (Prohibited Combination: 5AAH2017)
The Enlightenment
Red, White and Blues: Jazz and the United States in the 20th Century
The Making of Twentieth-Century Britain
Scotland: the Making of the Medieval Kingdom
Twentieth-Century Medicine, State and Society in the United States and United Kingdom
The American Revolution and the Creation of the United States, 1760-1815
The Experience of Power in Nigeria since 1900
Defining Race and Culture: Understanding Human Difference from the Enlightenment to Genetics
Intercollegiate Modules
Mass Culture in the Age of Revolution (Russian Revolution)
Ivan the Terrible and the Russian Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century (I)
Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Modern Europe
Medicine on the Silk Roads: Traditions and Transmissions
Poverty, Dress and Identity in Nineteenth-Century England
Life in the Trenches: Perspectives on British Military History, 1914-18
Sex and the African City: Gender and Urbanisation in Southern Africa
Radicalism in the English Revolution
Mechanisms of Power: Running the Roman Empire c.70BC-AD275
Competitive Men: The Politics of Competition in Ancient Greece
Passages to Jerusalem: The Crusades and the Medieval World, 1095-1291
Soul and Body in Renaissance Thought
Moving the World: the Automobile as the Fetish of the 20th Century
Slaves on Horses: State and Society under the Mamluks
Lives, Letters and Lifestyles: English Political Society during the Wars of the Roses
Apocalypse Now: Crisis, Change and Later Medieval Mentalities
Behind Closed Doors: Houses, Interiors and Domestic Life, c1660-c1830
Death of a Dynasty: Tudors and Stuarts, c. 1590-1610
The Kennedy Years
The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-21
Reinventing Ourselves: Psychology, Sex and Chemistry in Modern Britain
The Pursuit of Happiness? The Creation of American Capitalism, 1763-1914
We the People: Democracy in America, 1787-1861
The War on Terror
Modern Leviathan: The State in the Twentieth Century
Women, Family and Work in Post-War Britain
The Age of Revolutions: Global Perspectives
Racial Segregation and Apartheid, c. 1880-1990
Modernity and the Victorians: The Intellectual Response
Berlin: A European Metropolis in the Twentieth Century
Comparing Religious Fundamentalisms in the C19 and C20
Migration, Identity and Citizenship in Modern Britain
China and the World: Migrations and Frontiers, 1800-1950
Talking Cures and Troubles: The Oral History of Health and Medicine in Britain, c.1948-2000
Drawing the Line: Independence, Partition, and the Making of India and Pakistan
Progress and its Discontents: European Culture, 1890-1914
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Section B – Thematic Special Subjects 30 Credits – Please rank 5 choices
6AAH4002
6AAH4003
6AAH4004
6AAH4005
6AAH4006
6AAH4007
6AAH4008
6AAH4010
6AAH4012
6AAH4014
Ritual
Economic Crises
Crime and Punishment
Nations
Cosmopolitanism
God
War
Diasporas
Authority
Wealth
Section C - Choose between either (i) or (ii)
(i)
Write a free-standing long essay worth 30 credits
(ii)
Choose modules from the list below, totalling 30 credits – Please rank 5 choices.
If you are choosing 2 x 15 credit modules, you must ensure you choose a module in
each semester.
** RHUL and Goldsmiths have not been able to guarantee that all their modules will be in the intercollegiate slot
(Thursday 14.00-16.00). This may result in a timetable clash and force you to amend your module choices.
5AAH2001
5AAH2003
5AAH2004
5AAH2005
5AAH2008
5AAH2010
5AAH2011
5AAH2013
5AAH2018
5AAH2026
5AAH2034
5AAH2035
5AAH3001
5AAH3004
5AAH3006
5AAH3007
5AAH3009
5AAH3010
5AAH3011
5AAH3013
5AAH3014
SSEES
SSEES
SSEES
30 Credit Modules
Friends: Political Bonds in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, 1300-1550 (PROHIBITED
COMBINATION: 5AAH1028)
The Northern Ireland Troubles (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH1012)
Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
Crime & the Law, 1500-1750 (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH1027)
British Economic History from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (PROHIBITED
COMBINATION: 5AAH1029)
Faith, Nation and Empire in Modern East-Central Europe (1800 - present)
The French Civil War, 1934-1970 (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAFF254)
History of Australia Since 1788
The Byzantine Empire, 600-1453
Sexuality and Gender in Modern Britain
War in the Pacific, 1898 to 1975 and beyond: Strategy and Diplomacy
Conflict, Coexistence and Cooperation: South Asia’s International Relations since 1900
London from the Romans to the Middle Ages
Forging State and Nation in Latin America since 1750
History of Medicine from Antiquity to the Present (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH1030 &
5AAH1031)
China: From Imperial State to People’s Republic (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH1033 &
5AAH1034)
Making the Modern Metropolis: London since 1800 (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH1053 &
5AAH1054)
Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African History (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH2015)
Money, Violence and Friendship in Modern India (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH2031)
Making Americans: Peoples, Cultures and Identities in Colonial North America and the United States,
1500-2000 (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH2023)
Faraway so Close: The Middle East since 1800 (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH2030)
Intercollegiate Modules (30 Credits)
Crown Church and Estates in Central Europe 1500-1700
Successors to the Habsburgs: East-Central Europe, 1914-1945
The Fall and Rise of the Polish Nation, 1648-1921
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SSEES
SSEES
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths
UCL
UCL
UCL
UCL
UCL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
RHUL
5AAH1001
5AAH1007
5AAH1009
5AAH1013
5AAH1014
5AAH1021
5AAH1023
5AAH1032
5AAH1055
5AAH1061
5AAH1062
5AAH1063
5AACHI05
5AACHI14
5AACHI45
5ABA0001
5ABA0007
5AAGB415
5AAGB503
5AASB070
5AASB095
6ABA0006
6AACH16A
6AAGB624
6AAT3351
Modern Language
Centre
Media Culture and Society in the Soviet Union from Stalin to 1991
Dictatorship as experience. The coexistence of consensus and refusal in the German Democratic
Republic
Health, Healing and Illness in Africa**
Mediterranean Encounters: Venice and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1797**
Utopian Visions: The Soviet Experience through the Arts**
Migrants and Expats in the Middle Bronze Age: Old Assyrian Communities in Anatolia, 20th-17th
Centuries BC
Islamic Empires in a Comparative Perspective: The Foundations of Mediterranean Politics in the Age
of the Crusades
The Dutch Golden Age
India and the Global Economy, 1500 - Present
African Cities – Past and Present
From Blood and Guts to the Worried Well: Medicine in Britain, c.1750‐1990
The Russian Empire in the Age of Reform and Revolution 1856-1917
Nationalism, Democracy and Minorities, 1918-1945
Dragon Ladies: Society, Politics and Gender in Modern China
Modernizing Despots and Angry Mullahs: Development and Popular Resistance in the Muslim world,
1930-1980
Women and the Politics of Gender in Modern Muslim Societies
From Constantinople to Alexandria: Eastern Mediterranean Cities, 1798-1956
15 Credit Modules – Semester 1
The History of Western Political Ideas I: From Plato to c.1700
Religion and Society in Southern Europe
World History - Material Culture (1500-1900)
British Foreign Policy in the Age of Palmerston c.1815-c .1865
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 1492-1807
Imperial Britain? Britain and Empire c.1860-1964
The History of Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 1885-1960
Art in European Society 1500-1700
Electric Cities: The Experience of Modernity in London, Melbourne, New York and Paris, 1870-1929
Orientalism, Race, Islam
Political Culture, Faith, and Belonging in the post-1945 United States
Power and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Europe
15 Credit Modules in Other Departments- Semester 1
From Sulla to Caesar: the fall of the Roman Republic (Classics)
Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (Classics)
Pompeii: History and Society (Classics)
Literature and Empire (Comparative Literature)
The Book in the Modern World (Comparative Literature)
The German Reformation (German)
Society, Politics and Popular Culture in Germany since 1870 (German)
Nationalism in Spain (SPLAS)
Fatherlands: Spain and Portugal under the Dictators (SPLAS)
From Opium to Maximum City: Representations of the Indian political economy in fiction, film and
ethnography (Comparative Literature)
Persian Kings and their Territory in the Achaemenid Empire (Classics)
German in the World (German)
Varieties of Religious Experience: Christianity in Britain 1850-1970 (TRS)
Year-long language module (counts towards your compulsory 120 credits)
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5AAH1002
5AAH1004
5AAH1010
5AAH1011
5AAH1015
5AAH1016
5AAH1024
5AAH1039
5AAH1058
5AAH1068
5AACHI31
5AACHI50
5ABA0002
5ABA0010
5AAFF254
5AAGB502
5AAGB605
5AAT2044
5AAT2351
6AACAR60
6ABA0007
6AAEC094
6AASC094
6AAT3052
Modern Language
Centre
15 Credit Modules – Semester2
The History of Western Political Ideas II: From C.1700 to the Present
Theories of Modern History
World History: Power and Inequality (1500-1900)
The Vikings in Britain
Early Modern London
Blood and Iron: Prussia and the Forging of Modern Germany 1806 -1914
The History of Portuguese-Speaking Africa: since 1960
Historical Origins of Economic Underdevelopment in Africa
East Asia's Cultural Cold War
Europe in the Second World War
15 Credit Modules in Other Departments – Semester 2
Democracy, Empire and War: Greece 446-338 BC (Classics)
The Late Roman World, AD 337-425 (Classics)
Ideas of Nation (Comparative Literature)
Socialism and Literature in India: from the 1930s to the 1950s (Comparative Literature)
Modernity and the City (PROHIBITED COMBINATION: 5AAH2011) (French)
Berlin Past and Present: the Reconstruction of a Capital City (German)
18th Century German Thought: The Education of Humanity (German)
Religious Difference: Jewish, Christian and other perspectives (TRS)
Between Revolutions: British Christianity 1689-1860 (TRS)
Venice: history and art (Classics)
The French Revolution Effect (Comparative Literature)
Literature, Solidarity, and the Humanitarian Turn (Comparative Literature)
Cross-Cultural Exchanges Between Africa and the Americas, 16th-20th Centuries (SpLAS)
European Jews and the 'Orient' (TRS)
Year-long language module (counts towards your compulsory 120 credits)
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