BA Modern History and Politics (with a Year Abroad) (4 years)

University of Southampton

Master

In Southampton

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  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
The lessons of the past, enable us to make predictions for our future. This combined degree course in Modern History and Politics with a Year Abroad takes students on a journey through both present and past international relation. Modules include; Political Systems, Histories of Empire, Issues in Contemporary Politics, Responses to the Holocaust and more. The third year of this four year course will be spent at one of our international partner institutions.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Credit
  • Modern History
  • International
  • Global
  • History Politics

Course programme

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

HIST1151Credit[?]

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

: 30

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

PAIR1002Credit[?]

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

: 15

Political Systems

PAIR1004Credit[?]

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

: 15

Political Ideas

Semester TwoCompulsory

History Compulsory modules: Two Cases and Contexts. You must take two History option courses. (You may not choose pre-1750 courses.)

PAIR1001Credit[?]

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

: 15

Introduction to International Relations

PAIR1005Credit[?]

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

: 15

Introduction to Political Inquiry

Optional

HIST1173Credit[?]

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

: 15

The First World War

HIST1012Credit[?]

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

: 15

Who is Anne Frank?

HIST1076Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST1084Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST1085Credit[?]

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

: 15

German Jews in Great Britain

HIST1089Credit[?]

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

: 15

Histories of Empire

HIST1103Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Collapse of Austria-Hungary

HIST1113Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Crimean War

HIST1119Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Long Summer? Edwardian Britain 1901-1914

HIST1125Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST1145Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST1171Credit[?]

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

: 15

Reagan’s America: Capitalism and Cold War

HIST1176Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST1177Credit[?]

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

: 15

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.

You must take one History option course in each semester. Neither of these may be a pre-1750 course.

Semester One

Modern History and Politics students:
Take one Modern History module (30 credits) plus PAIR2010

Please note that if you wish to write a history style politics dissertation that does not require lots of data analysis you are not are not required to take PAIR2004

Compulsory Politics modules:
PAIR2010 Democracy and the State
PAIR2004 Research Skills (compulsory for those writing a Politics Dissertation)

Optional

HIST2039Credit[?]

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

: 30

Imperialism and Nationalism in British India

HIST2051Credit[?]

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

: 30

The British Atlantic World

HIST2064Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Space Age

HIST2071Credit[?]

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

: 15

Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture, Britain 1888-1952

HIST2073Credit[?]

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

: 15

Jews in Germany before the Holocaust

HIST2082Credit[?]

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

: 15

Nelson Mandela: A South African life

HIST2094Credit[?]

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

: 15

Wellington and the war against Napoleon

HIST2097Credit[?]

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

: 15

Napoleon and his legend

HIST2100Credit[?]

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

: 15

Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping

HIST2102Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

HIST2106Credit[?]

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

: 30

In Hitler's Shadow: Eastern Europe 1918-1939

HIST2107Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Fall of Imperial Russia

HIST2110Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Global Cold War

HIST2216Credit[?]

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

: 30

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

HIST2217Credit[?]

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

: 30

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).

: 15

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

HIST2219Credit[?]

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

: 15

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).

: 15

Modern Germany, 1870-1945

PAIR2001Credit[?]

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

: 15

Theories of International Relations

PAIR2014Credit[?]

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

: 15

International Security

PAIR2018Credit[?]

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

: 15

Political Behaviour

PAIR2020Credit[?]

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

: 15

Foundations of International Political Thought

PAIR2023Credit[?]

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

: 15

Politics of the Media

PAIR2024Credit[?]

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

: 15

Chinese Politics

PAIR2032Credit[?]

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

: 15

Democracy and Democratisation in Global Politics

PAIR2037Credit[?]

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

: 15

Comparative Lobbying and Interest Groups Politics

Semester TwoCompulsory

Modern History and Politics students: If planning a politics dissertation in year three you must taken PAIR2004 and one Politics module. If planning a History dissertation in year three you must take two PAIR modules but not PAIR2004.

PAIR2010Credit[?]

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

: 15

Democracy & the Modern State

Optional

HIST2004Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Making of Englishness

HIST2031Credit[?]

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

: 30

Stalin and Stalinism

HIST2086Credit[?]

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

: 30

Building London 1666-2012

HIST2087Credit[?]

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

: 30

Islamism – from the 1980s to the present

HIST2090Credit[?]

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

: 30

Britain’s Global Empire, 1750–1870

HIST2091Credit[?]

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

: 15

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).

: 30

Evolution of US Counterterrorism

HIST2108Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Making of Modern India

HIST2222Credit[?]

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

: 15

Ragtime! The Making of Modern America

HIST2224Credit[?]

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

: 15

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

PAIR2002Credit[?]

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

: 15

Political Thinkers

PAIR2003Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Ethics & Politics of Migration

PAIR2004Credit[?]

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

: 15

Research Skills in Politics & International Relations

PAIR2005Credit[?]

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

: 15

Development and International Relations

PAIR2012Credit[?]

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

: 15

Global Governance

PAIR2017Credit[?]

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

: 15

European Security Governance

PAIR2021Credit[?]

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

: 15

The Politics and Governance of the EU

PAIR2031Credit[?]

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

: 15

Comparative Party Politics

PAIR2033Credit[?]

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

: 15

Politics of Global Health

PAIR2036Credit[?]

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

: 15

Strategy and War

Year 3

Your third year will be spent abroad at one our partner institutions.

More details can be found here:

Year 4

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.

You will take two optional Politics modules in each semester, plus a History Special Subject module which spans both semesters, chosen from the options below.

Semester One

Modern History and Politics students:
If taking a History dissertation take History special subject (Modern) part one or an Alternative History plus 2 PAIR modules.

.

Politics Dissertation students:
History special subject (Modern) part one plus PAIR3003 (Dissertation) and one PAIR module.

Optional

HIST3054Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Third Reich 1

HIST3060Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Holocaust 1

HIST3072Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Late Russian Empire: Society, Ethnicity and Culture 1

HIST3123Credit[?]

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

: 30

Slavery and Freedom in the British Caribbean Part 1

HIST3142Credit[?]

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

: 30

Passions and Profits: Wealth, Freedom and Virtue in the Age of Adam Smith (Pt. 1: Texts)

HIST3171Credit[?]

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

: 30

The Crisis of Austria-Hungary Part 1

HIST3178Credit[?]

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

: 30

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s, Part 1: 1970-1974

HIST3180Credit[?]

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

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