BA Film and History

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Semester OneCompulsory

FILM1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Introduction to Film I: Hollywood

HIST1151Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

World Histories: Contact, Conflict and Culture from Ancient to Modern

Semester TwoOptional

FILM1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Introduction to Film II: European Cinema

FILM1027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Introduction to Film: European Cinema

ARCH1062Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects

HIST1008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

A Tudor Revolution in Government?

HIST1011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The First World War

HIST1012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Who is Anne Frank?

HIST1016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Masada: History and Myth

HIST1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The First Crusade: Sources and Distortions

HIST1022Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Childhood and Youth in Early Modern Society

HIST1074Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Battle of Agincourt

HIST1076Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

God's Own Land: Exploring Pakistan's Origins and History

HIST1084Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Victorian Britain

HIST1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

German Jews in Great Britain

HIST1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Papal power in medieval Europe: crusades, heresy and clashes with kings

HIST1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Histories of Empire

HIST1102Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The End of the World: Apocalyptic Visions of History

HIST1113Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Crimean War

HIST1119Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Long Summer? Edwardian Britain 1901-1914

HIST1125Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

When an empire falls: Culture and the British Empire, 1914-1960

HIST1145Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

From Shah to Ayatollah: The Establishment of the Clerical Power in Iran (1979 to Today)

HIST1146Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Joan of Arc: History behind the Myth

HIST1148Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Castles: Military technology and social change from the middle ages to the modern

HIST1153Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Alexander the Great and His Legacy

HIST1171Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Reagan’s America: Capitalism and Cold War

HIST1176Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Eisenhower and the World: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s

HIST1177Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Twentieth-Century China

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

History:
You must take one History option course in each semester. One of these must be a pre-1750 module that may be taken in either semester one or two.

Semester One

FILM2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Film Noir: Exile Filmmakers and 1940s Hollywood

FILM2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Technical and Creative Writing

FILM2015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

British Contemporary Filmmakers

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Women and Hollywood

FILM2022Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Contemporary Chinese Cinema

HIST2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Power, Patronage and Politics in Early Modern England 1509-1660

HIST2039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Imperialism and Nationalism in British India

HIST2049Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sin and Society, 1100-1500

HIST2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The British Atlantic World

HIST2055Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ancient Rome: the First Metropolis

HIST2064Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Space Age

HIST2069Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Knights and Chivalry

HIST2071Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture, Britain 1888-1952

HIST2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Jews in Germany before the Holocaust

HIST2082Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Nelson Mandela: A South African life

HIST2085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Rebels with a Cause: The Historical Origins of Christianity

HIST2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Wellington and the war against Napoleon

HIST2097Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Napoleon and his legend

HIST2100Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping

HIST2102Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775 - 1898

HIST2103Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Self-inflicted - Extreme Violence, Politics and Power

HIST2106Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

In Hitler's Shadow: Eastern Europe 1918-1939

HIST2107Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Fall of Imperial Russia

HIST2110Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Global Cold War

HIST2215Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Age of Discovery? c.1350-c.1650

HIST2216Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Oil Burns The Hands: Power, Politics and Petroleum in Iraq, 1900-1958

HIST2217Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

From the mafia to the ultras: Conflict, violence and the Italian Republic from 1945 to the 1990s

HIST2218Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sex, Death and Money: the United Kingdom in the 1960s

HIST2219Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel from Twelfth-Century England to twentieth-century Russia

HIST2221Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Modern Germany, 1870-1945

Semester Two

History Semester 2
One History module (30 credits).

Students should choose ONE optional Film module

FILM2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

FILM2020Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

World Cinema

FILM2023Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Animation: Techology, Culture and Industry

FILM2026Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday

HIST2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Making of Englishness

HIST2031Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Stalin and Stalinism

HIST2036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Hundred Years War

HIST2045Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Cleopatra’s Egypt

HIST2053Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Habsburg Spain, 1469-1700: The Rise and Decline of the First European Superpower

HIST2086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Building London 1666-2012

HIST2087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Islamism – from the 1980s to the present

HIST2090Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Britain’s Global Empire, 1750–1870

HIST2091Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Underworlds: A cultural history of urban nightlife in the 19th and 20th centuries

HIST2096Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Evolution of US Counterterrorism

HIST2108Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Making of Modern India

HIST2109Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ancient Greeks at War

HIST2220Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Witchcraft in England, 1542-1736

HIST2222Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ragtime! The Making of Modern America

HIST2223Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Myth and the Ancient World

HIST2224Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Children in Europe 1933-1950: Holocaust, War, Displacement and Survival

Year 3

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Dissertation:
Choose either a Film dissertation (FILM3003) or a History dissertation (HIST3021).
Film:
If you are planning a Film dissertation, choose two other final year History modules.
History:
If you are planning a History dissertation, the Film modules Music in Film and TV and Contemporary French Cinematic Cultures are compulsory.
History dissertation students
You should do HIST Special Subject part 1 (double module) OR HIST Alternative History (double module)