Archaeology and History Modules 2025/6
Please note, details for interdisciplinary modules within the HASS faculty can be found here.Stage One Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC1007 | Archaeological and Forensic Science Practicals | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1008 | Forensic Archaeology | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1010 | Themes in World Archaeology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1020 | Essential Archaeological Methods | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1030 | Investigating British Archaeology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1040 | Artefacts and Materials | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1070 | Practical Skills in Archaeology | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1080 | Archaeology and Heritage: Past and Futures | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1002 | Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1014 | The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1042 | Murder in Early Modern England | 15 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1043 | The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | 15 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1057 | The Opium War: the British Empire encounters the Middle Kingdom | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1063 | Sex, Marx and Rock 'n' Roll: The Soviet 'Sixties', 1956-68 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1137 | Becoming a Historian: Core | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1139 | Becoming a Historian: Extended | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1141 | Plants and People in the long Eighteenth Century | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1142 | Women, Gender and Education in Britain, c.1850-2000 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1143 | Antisemitism and Assimilation: Images of Jews in the Modern World | 15 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1300 | Before Eugenics: Science, Race and Exploration | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1301 | An Imperial Health Service: Empire and the British National Health Service | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1402 | Britain, America and the Global Order, 1846-1946 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1421 | Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1422 | Understanding Modern History | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1501 | The Viking Phenomenon | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1532 | The History of Strategic Thinking | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1585 | Ladies of the Night: Prostitution in the Victorian World | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1586 | Early Modern Venice: Representations and Myths | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1596 | The Good War? The United States in World War II | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1598 | The Medieval Inquisition | 15 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1618 | Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Stage Two Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC2003 | Archaeological Fieldwork Project | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2004 | Archaeological Fieldschool | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2012 | Monumental Changes: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2121 | Brooches, Beads, Swords and Shields: Early Medieval Material Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2123 | Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2130 | Discovering the Past with Molecular Science | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2401 | Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2406 | Medieval Castles in Context | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2408 | Romanisation: Interaction, Conquest and Change in Late Iron Age and Roman Dacia | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2504 | Zooarchaeology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2514 | Forensic Anthropology | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics and Projects | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2237 | Doing History in the Digital Age | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2238 | Slavery, Revolution, Independence: Saint-Domingue and Haiti, 1685-1838 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2241 | Rise and Demise of Communism in Global Perspective | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2242 | British Settler Colonialism and its Legacies | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2243 | Britain and Ireland: Union, Conflict, and Independence, 1798-1949 | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2591 | Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223 | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Stage Three Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC3000 | Archaeological Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3003 | Professional Placement | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3006A | Advanced Fieldschool | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3010 | Archaeological Science Dissertation | 45 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3012 | Monumental changes: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3013 | Practicing Archaeological, Forensic and Heritage Science | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3121 | Brooches, Beads, Swords and Shields: Early Medieval Material Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3123 | Sustainability and Collapse in Past Societies | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3133 | Digital Pasts | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3136 | Advanced Fieldwork | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3401 | Understanding the Landscape of Medieval Britain | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3406 | Medieval Castles in Context | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3408 | Romanisation: Interaction, Conquest and Change in Late Iron Age and Roman Dacia | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3510 | Experimental Approaches to Forensic and Archaeological Investigations | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3611 | Funerary Osteoarchaeology | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3005 | General Third-Year Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3006 | Research Project Dissertation | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3330 | Truth | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3331 | Elites | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3333 | Disease | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3334 | War | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3335 | Violence | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3336 | Revolution | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3415 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3416 | Critics of Empire | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3417 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3418 | The Russian Revolution | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3421 | Magic in the Middle Ages | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3422 | Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3423 | The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3430 | From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern encounters with the ancient world | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3431 | The Population Problem: Conservation, Eugenics, and Food in the Twentieth Century | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3433 | Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3434 | The Body in Early Modern England | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3437 | Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3441 | Britons Abroad: The Experience of Travel, c. 1650-1900 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3446 | The Celtic Frontier | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3450 | Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3453 | Violence or Non-Violence? Gandhi and Popular Movements in India, 1915-1950 | 60 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3455 | Sexualities | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
