American Studies and History with options to Study Abroad BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules:

• Case Studies I: Sources and Approaches in History
• Case Studies II: Independent Study Project
• Introduction to American Studies 1
• Introduction to American Studies 2

Optional modules:

• Introductory Study: The United States
• Introductory Study: Early Modern Europe
• Introductory Study: Twentieth Century Europe
• Introductory Study: Victorian Britain 1815-1914
• Introductory Study: East Asia 1900-present
• Introductory Study: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, 1783 - 1997
• Introductory Study: Uniting the Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837
• Introductory Module: Europe in Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
• Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001
• Introductory Module: Seventeenth century England
• Introductory Study: Britain in the Twentieth Century
• Introductory Study: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange
• Introductory Study: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066
• Introductory Study: Europe 1300-1500
• Introductory Study: English History 1272-1500
• Introductory Study: The Classical World 500-31BC
• Introductory Study: Roman Britain
• Introductory Study: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660
• International Introductory Module: Origins of Greek Civilisation: from Aegean Bronze Age to Archaic Greece (2000-600 BC)
• Introductory Module: Europe in the High Middle Ages (c.800 - c.1200)
• Introductory Study: Barbarians, Byzantines, and Beyond (400-814CE)

Year 2

Core modules:

• Reading History
• American Modernity

Optional modules:

• American Gothic
• Researching American Culture
• Region and Environment
• Modern American Presidency
• American Science Fiction
• Writing America
• Literature and Film
• Southern Cultures
• Making it, Buying it, and Being it: Work and Money in American Literature
• Volunteering for American Studies
• US Foreign Policy: Institutions and Concepts
• The War on Terror and the Axis of Evil and Beyond
• Independent Study Module
• Field Trip
• Volunteering in History
• The Golden Age of Spain
• Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485-1558
• The Global Hispanic World (1760s-1960s)
• War as a Life Experience (18th-20th Centuries)
• Enlightened Absolutism in East-Central Europe, 1740-1790
• Victorian Culture and Society
• Imperial Japan
• The British Raj, from the 'Indian Mutiny' to Gandhi - 1857-1947
• The American South 1865-1970
• Edwardian Britain
• Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1924
• Nazism and the Holocaust
• From Austerity to Affluence: Everyday Life in Post-war Britain
• The Kinks: English Culture and Identity from the Post-War through to the 21st Century
• Option B: The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700
• Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914
• Exploring Past Localities
• Age of Discovery
• The Rise of the High Speed Society (18th-20th centuries)
• American Slavery
• Reactions to Poverty
• Power to the People: Energy, Industrialization and the Creation of the Modern World
• History's Eye - Photography and Society
• Sisterhood - Before and After: Feminism in Twentieth Century Britain
• Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Soviet Communism
• 'Subordinate Independence': Japan's Relationship with the US 1945-present
• Stalinism
• Dreams and Nightmares: Britain in 20th Century Europe
• The History of Rock and Roll
• Political and Religious Themes in the Modern Near and Middle East
• 'The War on Terror' and the 'Axis of Evil' and Beyond
• Middle English: Texts in Context
• Old English I

Year 3

Core modules:

• Dissertation in American History
• Writing History

or

• Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar

Optional modules:

• Issues in African American Culture
• Identity in Contemporary American Film
• American Conspiracies
• Liberty and Extremism in America
• Picturing the Nation
• War in the American Experience
• The Contemporary American Novel
• American Crime Fiction
• "Sex and the City "and Beyond
• Chick Lit: Women's Writing Before "Sex and the City"
• American Political Writing
• Civil Rights Immersive Study - this trip retraces the steps of the Civil Rights movement and visits historical sites, museums and foundations
• Depth Study: The Henrician & Edwardian Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation
• Depth Study: Civil War and Revolution in the British Isles
• Depth Study: The Rise of British Medicine 1650 - 1800 and 1800 - 1950
• The Age of Napoleon in global perspective - I and II
• Depth Study: The French in North Africa: The Maghreb, 1830-1914 and North Africa and France: The Maghreb, 1914-present
• Depth Study: The Emergence of Modern Environmentalism I & II: The Discovery of Nature and The Crisis of Nature
• Depth Study: Interwar Britain
• Depth Study: Society, Culture and Everyday Life in Russia: 1928-1985
• Depth Study: Genocide in History and Memory I and II
• Depth Study: Japan at War and Under Occupation 1937-52
• Depth Study: The Home Front: the United Kingdom 1939-1945
• Depth Study: The United States and the Cold War 1945-63
• The Post-war Teenager, 1945-1979 Part 1 and Part 2
• Depth Study: The USSR after Stalin, 1953-1964 and 1964-1985
• Comparative Study: Supernatural and Witchcraft Beliefs in the British Isles, Continental Europe and America c.1450-1800
• Comparative Study: Ideas, Ideologies and Colonial Organisation in the British and French Empires
• Comparative Study: Borderlands and Commodities in History
• Comparative Study: Mental Health and Illness
• Comparative Study: The People are Revolting! Protest, Rebellion and Popular Politics in the Modern World
• Comparative Study: Minorities in the Past
• Comparative Study: Mediterranean Fascism: Conflict and Dictatorship in Spain and Italy 1914-1947
• Comparative Study: Holocaust Memory and Representation in Europe, the United States & Israel
• Comparative Study: War Crimes Trials and Memories of War: Japan and Germany
• Comparative Study: Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
• Comparative Study: Anxiety and Hope: Meanings of Home in the Post-war World

American Exchange (optional) - there is the opportunity to spend one semester studying in the USA

Erasmus Exchange (optional) - there are currently Erasmus Exchange opportunities in the Czech Republic

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right-hand side).

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.