BA (Hons) History/Politics

Option Modules

Year 1

• Introduction to Democratic Politics
• Introduction to International Politics
• Introduction to Political Theory

Year 2

You will also study five option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:

• Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
• Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
• 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
• An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
• Black Radicalism in the Americas
• Britain and the World Since 1945
• Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
• From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
• Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
• The Making of England, c.850-1066
• What News?' People and Politics in Early Modern Britain
• Contemporary Political Philosophy 
• History of Political Thought 
• State, Economy and Society 
• Empire, War and Law 
• The Politics of Gender 
• Democracy, Autocracy and the State 
• Politics in the United Kingdom 
• The European Union: Politics and Policies 
• Politics of Development 
• The Rising Powers 
• War and Peace 
• The United States and Global Politics After the Cold War 
• Human Rights and Wrongs in the Globalised World 
• Critical Global Security Studies 
• Global Political Economy 

Year 3

You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:

• 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
• Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
• 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
• Gender and Political Theory 
• Knowledge and Ignorance in Democratic Politics 
• The Idea of Liberty 
• Political Participation and Democracy 
• Green Politics 
• British Foreign Policy after the Cold War 
• Territory and Conflict in the former Soviet Union 
• Regionalism in World Politics 
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism 
• Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons 
• Governing the Global Economy 
• Contemporary Politics of South Asia 
• Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power 
• Politics and the Novel 
• 'We the people': Ideas of Democratic Representation from Rousseau to Occupy 
• Karl Marx 
• Politics and the Street 
• The Labour Party ad Britain's Struggle for Socialism 
• Policy Analysis in Theory and Practice 
• Global Sustainability and Energy Policy 
• Political Economy of the New Europe 
• Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict 
• The Politics of Security in Africa 
• Statebuilding and Political Transition in South East Asia 
• The Global Food System 
• Ethnicity and Conflict 
• Ethics and Public Policy (PEP)