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Courses 2013/14

This is a provisional list of courses for next year:

• Ancient
• Medieval/Renaissance
• Early Modern/Modern
• Options for MARS students (full list)
• Options for Transnational Studies students - in progress
• Options for Chinese Health and Humanities students - in progress

Ancient

HISTGA01 Sources and Methods in Ancient History

Various tutors

HISTGA04 Continuity and Change in the Ancient Near East

Eleanor Robson

HISTGA05B Economy of Classical Athens

Hans van Wees

HISTGA09 Propaganda and Ideology in Rome

Valentina Arena

HISTGA** Hellenistic Epigraphy: From Athens to Afghanistan

Riet van Bremen 

HISTGA69 Romans and the Others

Valentina Arena

HISTG012 Classical Chinese Medicine

Vivienne Lo

LANGUAGE OPTIONS

• Available as part of the intercollegiate degree via UCL Greek and Latin (click here for course descriptions):

CLASGL01 MA Beginners Latin
CLASGL15 Dionysus in Rome
CLASGR12 Approaches to Reception
CLASGR03 Ancient Rome on Film

• In the original language...

CLASGG10A Greek Drama 1: Sophocles: Oedipus and his children
CLASGG10B Greek Drama 2: Comedy, Genre and Intertextuality
CLASGG03 Greek Papyrology
CLASGG12A Greek Historians 1: Herodotus
CLASGG12A Greek Historians 2: Xenophon
CLASG100 The Greek Dialects
CLASGL09A Ovid
CLASGL10A Early Modern Latin Literature 1
CLASGL10B Early Modern Latin Literature 2

Medieval/Renaissance

MDVLG004/G005 Medieval Manuscripts and Documents
David d'Avray and Marigold Norbye
CLASGL01/MDVLGL04 Medieval Latin (beginners)
TBA

MDVL12 Identity and Power

Antonio Sennis

HISTGH10 Medieval Papacy

David d'Avray

HISTG050 From Renaissance to Republic: The Netherlands c.1555-1609

Ben Kaplan

Early Modern/Modern

HISTGM01 Advanced Skills, Concepts and Theory (core course for MA History, European History and Transnational Studies)

HISTG061 Signs, Mind and Society
Avi Lifschitz

HISTG*** Early Modern Information Culture

Matthew Symonds

HISTG091 Debating the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Julian Hoppit

HISTG090 Adam Smith and the State
Julian Hoppit

HISTG066 History and Theory of European Integration I: Constructing Europe, 1945 to the Lisbon Treaty

Uta Staiger

HISTG067 History and Theory of European Integration II: The Idea of Europe

Uta Staiger
HISTG048 Hollywood and the History of American Popular Film
Melvyn Stokes

HISTGC06 Chinese Film and the Body

Vivienne Lo

HISTG069 Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspective
Axel Korner

HISTG078A Charismatic Cosmopolitans

Dina Gusejnova

HISTG077 Gender and Knowledge in History

Helga Satzinger

HISTG086 The US and the World: 1776-1900
David Sim
HISTG837 Crisis and Future in 19th-Century European Thought
Axel Korner
HISTG089 Globalisation in the 20th Century
Bernhard Rieger

GROUP B MODULES (available to European History, History and Transnational Studies students) - more coming soon!

AMERG***African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights

AMERG*** The Making of Modern Latin America: History, Politics and Society

AMERG*** Environmental Issues, Movements and Policies in the Americas

AMERG*** The International Politics of Latin America

HEBRG006 History of the Jews in Poland (30 credits)

HEBRG038 Representations of Trauma- Holocaust Writing (15 credits)

HEBRG128 Israel and the Occupied Territories (15 credits)

HEBRG142 Metropolitan Life: Jews and the City (30 credits)

HEBRG144 The Peace Process in Modern Israeli Politics (15 credits)