Archaeology and History Modules 2023/4
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) |
| ARC1050 | Objects: Contexts and Display | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC1070 | Practical Skills in Archaeology | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1002 | Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1014 | The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1042 | Murder in Early Modern England | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1043 | The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1051 | Everyday Life in the Anglophone Caribbean, c.1900-1966 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1137 | Becoming a Historian: Core | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1138 | Medieval, Manufactured? Uses and Reuses of the Middle Ages | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1139 | Becoming a Historian: Extended | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1140 | Confinement, Care, Cure: Psychiatric Institutions in the Twentieth Century | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1412 | Early Modern Magic and Witchcraft | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1421 | Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1422 | Understanding Modern History | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1532 | The History of Strategic Thinking | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1534 | Maritime Power in the Age of Nelson | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1539 | Early Modern Things: Materials as Historical Sources | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1596 | The Good War? The United States in World War II | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1600 | Images of Stalinism | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1614 | Environment and Industry, 1750-1950: Global Perspectives | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1616 | Producing Poverty: Peasants in a Global Perspective, 700-1300CE | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH1618 | Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia | 15 | 1 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC2120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 15 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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) |
| ARC2516 | Human Origins and Evolution: the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic | 15 | 1 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2019A | Science, Technology and Medicine in the Cold War | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | 2 | 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) |
| HIH2041 | The First Welfare State? England's Poor Law, 1520-1835 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2111 | Mediterranean Maritime Supremacy, 1500-1700 | 30 | View on ELE (current students only) | |
| HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | 2 | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2179A | The American Empire | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2184A | From Conquest to Communism: Central Asia under the Russian and Soviet Empires, 1730-1945 | 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) |
| HIH2209A | African American History | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2210A | The Russian Empire, 1689-1917 | 30 | 1 | 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) |
| HIH2588 | Empire, Identity and Heritage in South-East Europe and the Middle East (1800-1950) | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2592 | Science, Empire and Natural History Museums: A Global Perspective | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH2593 | 'Undesirables': Migration Mobility and Empire | 30 | 2 | 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 | View on ELE (current students only) | |
| ARC3011 | Practicing Archaeological Science | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3012 | Monumental changes: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3120 | Things and Us: Ancient and Contemporary Material Culture | 15 | 2 | 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) |
| ARC3132 | Digital Approaches to Archaeological Data | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3133 | Digital Pasts | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3510 | Experimental Approaches to Forensic and Archaeological Investigations | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARC3516 | Human Origins and Evolution: the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic | 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) |
| HIH3051 | The Rise of Capitalism in Britain 1660-1830 (Sources) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3052 | The Rise of Capitalism in Britain 1660-1830 (Context) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3053 | Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3054 | Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3056 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3057 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3058 | Engendering Empire: Making the British Imperial World: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3059 | Engendering Empire: Making the British Imperial World: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3061 | Women's Experience in Britain: Race, Class and Gender since 1945 (Sources) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3062 | Women's Experience in Britain: Race, Class and Gender since 1945 (Context) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3132 | The Body in Early Modern England: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3133 | The Body in Early Modern England: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3157 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3158 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3170 | From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern Encounters with the Ancient World: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3171 | From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern Encounters with the Ancient World: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3216 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3217 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3250 | Colonial Conflict and Decolonisation 1918-1975: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3251 | Colonial Conflict and Decolonisation 1918-1975: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3298 | Law, Politics and Society across the British Empire, 1750-1960: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3299 | Law, Politics and Society across the British Empire, 1750-1960: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3617 | News, Media and Communication | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3626 | Heroes: Conceptions, Constructions and Representations | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3628 | Civil Wars | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3633 | Revolutions | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3634 | Race, Resistance and Decolonisation | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3639 | Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822: Context | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HIH3640 | Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822: Sources | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Masters Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARCM004 | Dissertation | 60 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM005 | Professional Skills in Archaeology | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM007 | Advanced Project | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM012 | Skeletal Anatomy | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM107 | Digital Pasts | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM120 | Themes in Archaeological Theory and Practice | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM130 | Discovering the Past with Molecular Science | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM300 | Material Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM403 | Advanced Zooarchaeology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM405 | Advanced Human Osteology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM407 | Zooarchaeology | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM412 | Funerary Osteoarchaeology | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM415 | The Archaeology of Humans and Other Animals | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM600 | Bioarchaeology Dissertation | 60 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| ARCM602 | Forensic Anthropology: Principles and Practice | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM001 | Critical Approaches to Early Modern History | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM002 | Critical Approaches to Maritime and Naval History | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM003 | Critical Approaches to Imperial and Global History | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM036 | Gender, Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM039 | History in Public: A Workplace Project | 30 | 1, 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM040 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM041 | Food and Agriculture in Historical Perspective | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM042 | Working with Medieval Manuscripts and Documents | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM043 | Critical Approaches to the History of Violence and Conflict | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM180 | Dissertation in Medieval Studies | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM185 | Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities | 15 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM186 | Supervised Independent Study in the Humanities | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM201 | Debating British Political History, 1906 to the Present | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM400 | Dissertation in History | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM403 | Dissertation in History | 90 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM479 | Sexual Discoveries: the Reception, Interpretation and Purpose of Queer History | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM482 | Empire and Globalisation | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| HISM483 | European Empires and Proto-Globalisation 1200-1800 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
