BA (Hons) History/Economics

Option Modules

Year 1

• Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth
• Probability 1
• Statistics 1

Year 2

You will choose from a selection of Histories and Contexts option modules, examples of which may include:

• Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
• Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
• Ending European Empires: Decolonization after 1945 in Comparative Perspective
• From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
• Histories in Public: Understandings of the Past in Today's Society
• Kingship, Rule and Mythmaking: England 1065-1307
• Narrators and Historical Memory in the Middle Ages
• Righteous Might: American Politics and Society since 1877
• The Tudor Regime: Power, Propaganda and Faith, 1485-1603

You will choose from a selection of Explorations option modules, examples of which may include:

• An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
• Black Radicalism in the Americas
• Britain and the World Since 1945
• British Police and the Democratic Idea since 1829
• Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
• From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
• Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
• Law and Society in Later Medieval England (c.1300-1500)
• Revolutions, Scandals and Reforms: British Political Culture, 1688-1832
• The British Atlantic World, 1576-1692: From Roanoke Colony to the Salem Witch Trials
• The Color Line: Race and Empire in British, French and North American Worlds, c.1860-1945
• The Good World: Visions of Rule and Power in Italy, 1200-1400
• The Long Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. since 1865
• The Making of England, c.850-1066
• The Pursuit of Happiness: The Politics of Leisure and Pastime in Twentieth-Century America
• Uniting the Kingdom: Britishness and the Four Nations, 1707-1815
• Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
• What News?' People and Politics in Early Modern Britain
• Wild Things: A Cultural History of Animals, 1700-1900

You will choose from a selection of Economics option modules, examples of which may include:

• Econometrics II
• Economic Growth and Development

Year 3

Option modules

• History Dissertation

You will choose from a selection of Special Subject option modules, examples of which may include:

• Fantasy and Friction: US-Middle East Relations from 1945
• Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
• From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
• Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
• Inquisitors and Heretics in the High Middle Ages
• Ireland in the Age of Revolution
• Joan of Arc
• John Stuart Mill and Victorian Britain
• Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
• Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
• Reading and Writing in Late-Medieval England
• Rebellion and Revolution: The British Civil Wars, 1637-51
• Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
• Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
• The French Wars of Religion, 1559-94
• The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
• The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
• Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35

You will choose from a selection of Economics option modules, examples of which may include:

• Microeconomics 3
• Alternative Perspectives in Economics
• Macroeconomics III
• Applied Economics
• Mathematical Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• International Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Econometric Methods for Research
• Industrial Economics
• Principles of Corporate Finance and Derivative Securities
• International Economic Growth and Development
• Experimental Economics
• Economics of Social Policy
• The Structure & Regulation of Financial Markets
• Political Economics
• Financial and Time Series Econometrics
• Bubbles, Panics and Crashes
• Health Economics