“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The History modules listed below will be offered in academic year 2012-2013. Please note that the modules listed may be subject to change and that final module selection will depend on academic approval of your module choice at both the point of application and the academic advising session before Matriculation.
The Level 4 programme of Focused Studies and Special Subjects offers you in-depth study of historical topics and sources based on the reading and interpretation of primary materials. Special Subjects comprise two modules, taught over two semesters, Focused Studies are just one module.
60 credits, year long
Part 1, The roots of Industrial and Political Radicalism, c.1880 to 1914, charts the rise of industrial left-radicalism and the early labour and socialists movement in Scotland from the 1880s.
Part 2, Red Scotland? Radical Scotland?: War, the Russian Revolution, and decline of Radicalism 1914 to c.1932.
60 credits, year long
What do we mean by the term 'frontier' in early American history and what was life like for those who lived on the early American frontier, both Native American, and 'Euro-American'?
60 credits, year long
This module looks at the sources that historians use for research on crime and criminal justice and at criminal justice debates and transformations in prosecution and punishment from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
60 credits, year long
These two modules explore the French Revolution from its beginning c. 1789 to its close c. 1799, looking in detail at - among other things - the reconstruction of France between 1789-91, the Terror, and the emergence of general Napoleon Bonaparte, whose coup in 1799 brought the revolutionary cycle to a close.
60 credits, year long
Part 1 - This module covers the complex events in Russia from the dismantling of the tsarist regime to the spring of 1918 when the Bolsheviks signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany.
Part 2 - This module covers the complex events in Russia from the Brest-Litovsk treaty to the final victory of the Bolsheviks in the struggle for power.
60 credits, year long
This module gives you the opportunity to explore the concept of revolution as a historical problem and to come up with your own verdicts. Have the historians got it wrong? What is a revolution? Has the concept any historical validity in Ireland or elsewhere? Why have Irish historians increasingly applied the term since 1980?
60 credits, year long
What were early modern parliaments for? In what way were they 'representative'? What were they like and what can they tell us about the society in which they existed? This module explores these issues through a variety of primary and secondary sources. We will look at parliament's form, its functions, how it was perceived and how it compared to representative assemblies elsewhere in Britain and Europe.
30 credits, Semester 2
This module considers the transformation of industrial and class relations and the events that were to influence and shape the experience of the Scottish working class between c1900 and 1922.
30 credits, Semester 1
This is a new module that offers students the opportunity to study African Americans' struggle to secure freedom from racial oppression through the use of a variety of primary source material. Starting with the early protests of the World War II era, it follows the evolution of the American civil rights movement through to the mass protests of the 1950s and 1960s.
30 credits, Semester 2
The module uses a variety of primary sources and secondary reading to examine the day-to-day experiences of both frontier settlers and Native American peoples. How did the experience of frontier life affect frontiersmen and their families? What attracted people to move to the trans-Appalachian west? How did Native American peoples respond to the migration of thousands of white settlers onto their lands? These are just some of the questions that will be explored in the module.
30 credits, Semester 1
The module covers the main patterns in 'globalization' from the 1870s to the late twentieth century. It focuses especially on the patterns of economic integration (trade, investment, and migration), and the forces making for their expansion and contraction. It examines the complex relationship between European colonialism and globalization. In addition to looking at the overall trends, it includes three case studies of globalization: India, Canada and Dundee.
30 credits
In this module, we will study the exciting early history of New York City and the environs. The module is divided into three parts. In the first section, entitled 'Origins', we will look at Dutch perceptions of the New World prior to Henry Hudson's voyage in 1609 and then at Hudson's reasons for sailing up the river named after him. In the second section, entitled 'Trade and Settlement', we will discuss Dutch penetration of the Hudson valley. In the third and final section, entitled 'Legacies', we will examine the English capture of New Amsterdam in 1664 and its consequences.
30 credits, Semester 1
Between 1763 and 1789, many European states experienced wide-ranging reform, not least in the states of the three classic Enlightened Despots: Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Joseph II of Austria. Was 'Enlightened Despotism' an expression of humanitarian concerns or about making the state more powerful and secure, both at home and abroad. This and other relevant problems lie at the heart of a module which looks at Europe's political, economic, social and cultural experience in the decades before the French Revolution.
30 credits, Semester 2
This module aims at exploring different ways of explaining and thinking about the past through film. It will consider the limitations of the media we look at, and also attempt to evaluate the influence of film in shaping the popular historical imagination. It will also introduce students to methods where they apply their historical skills to different media.
60 credits, year long
The dissertation of 8-10,000 words offers an opportunity to apply all the accumulated skills and knowledge in one piece of work and it is usually linked to areas studied in Focused Studies or Special Subjects.
30 credits, Semester 1
This module focuses on the social, economic and political history of Italy 1919-45. It concentrates primarily on the following areas: the rise of Fascism; the social, political and economic history of the period of the regime; the reasons for Fascism's durability in Italy; war and Resistance; historiography on all of the above themes.
30 credits, Semester 2
This module examines the history of the book from a variety of perspectives. In the past, the history of the book was a field largely dominated by English scholars and librarians, in particular analytical bibliographers. They investigated and described the physical characteristics of books (paper supplies, binding, etc.) and their provenance (i.e. who were the previous owners?). A completely different approach arose at the end of the 1970s, which can best be described as the social history of knowledge.
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