History and Politics BA (Hons)

• British Political History
• Explanatory Concepts in Political Science
• The Early Modern World

• Foundations of Politics
• Research Skills and Methods in Political Science
• The Making of the Modern World

• European Politics
• Ideas of History
• Modern Political Thought

• Global History 1500-2000: Trade, Science, Environment and Empire

• History Short Period: America in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: Britain in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: England in the 16th Century
• History Short Period: Europe in the 20th Century
• History Short Period: The Middle East and North Africa since 1908

• Communicating Politics
• Politics of Governance: East Asia
• Politics of Governance: Eastern Europe
• Politics of Governance: France
• Politics of Governance: Germany
• Politics of Governance: India
• Politics of Governance: International Institutions and Issues
• Politics of Governance: The European Union
• Time and Place 1851: Science, Empire and Exhibitionism
• Time and Place 2008: The Spectacle of the Beijing Olympics
• Time and Place: 1796: Lithography and the Mass Produced Image
• Time and Place: 1831: Slave Revolts
• Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War
• Time and Place: 1938: Kristallnacht
• Time and Place: 1953: Monarchs and Murders
• Time and Place: 1968: Rivers of Blood

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Year 3 at sussex

• History Special Dissertation

• Death of Socialism?
• Photography and Politics
• Political Change: Contemporary France
• Political Change: Eastern Europe in Transition
• Political Change: India
• Political Change: Political Parties and Party Systems
• Political Change: Politics and International Business
• Political Change: The European Union as a Global Actor
• Political Change: the Evolution of Post War European Integration

• Special Subject: Britain and the Second World War
• Special Subject: Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain
• Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950
• Special Subject: Palestine in Transition, 1900-1948: Everyday Life in Times of Change
• Special Subject: Reforming Islam in the 20th Century: Modernism, Revivalism, Extremism, Terrorism
• Special Subject: The Century of the Gene
• Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement
• Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War

• Democracy and Inequality
• Feminism and Womens Political Activism in Britain
• Governing Technology
• Ideas of Progress and Decline in Modern British Politics
• Independent Study/Internship Option
• Parties and Voters in the UK
• Political Corruption