Contents
- Second Year Research Seminars (SYRS)
- Survey Modules
- Thematic Modules
Second Year Research Seminars (SYRS)
We have grouped the 2024-25 Second Year Research Seminars by geographical region to help you think about your choices. The four regions are:
- British Isles
- Europe and the Middle East
- South Asia and East Asia
- The Americas and Atlantic History
As the SYRS modules won’t appear on the UCL Module Catalogue, we have provided a separate SYRS Module Booklet. This can be accessed on the UCL History Undergraduate Module Selection for 24/25 Moodle page.
BA Ancient History students are reminded that they must take an Ancient History SYRS, and you have a choice of either Emotions and the Ancient Greeks or Migrants and Expats: Old Assyrian Identity Politics 20-17cs C BC.
Survey Modules
We have grouped the 2024-25 Survey modules by historical period to help you think about your choices.
BA Ancient History students are reminded that they must take at least one ancient history Survey module in their second year of study. We are offering 3 Ancient History Survey modules next year:
- HIST0164: Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East
- HIST0154: The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the end of the Attalid Kingdom
- HIST0156: The Roman Republic, C.350 BC - 44 BC
Students on the BA Ancient History programme may also select HIST0140: The History of Political Thought in the West as their ancient Survey option but you should note that this module cuts across various periods.
Students not on the BA Ancient History programme are very welcome to take Surveys from the Ancient period (subject to availability) – they are not restricted to students on the BA Ancient History programme!
- Ancient Survey modules
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0164: Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East
*Ancient History Module
T1 & 2 30 Dr Yagmur Heffron Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0154: The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the end of the Attalid Kingdom
*Ancient History Module
T1 & 2 30 Dr Julietta Steinhauer Survey 2021-22 Moodle page HIST0156: The Roman Republic, C.350 BC - 44 BC
*Ancient History Module
T1 & 2 30 Dr Amber Gartrell Survey 2023-24 Moodle page
- Medieval and Early Modern Survey modules
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0901: India and the Early Modern World T1 & 2 30 Dr Jagjeet Lally Survey Not available HIST0033: Making Medieval Europe 1150 - 1350 T1 & 2 30 Prof. John Sabapathy Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0182: Early Modern Europe T1 & 2 30 TBC Survey Not available
- Modern Survey Modules
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0197: Age of Revolution: European History 1815-1870
T1 & 2 30 Dr Simon Macdonald Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0178: British History c.1850-1997 T1 & 2 30 TBC Survey 2023-24 Moodle page AMER0074: History and Politics of Latin America, c.1930 to Present T1 & 2 30 Prof. Paulo Drinot Survey N/A HIST0205: History of Latin America c.1830-c.1930 T1 & 2 30 Dr Thom Rath Survey 2022-23 Moodle page HIST0490: History of Modern Germany 1815-1990 T1 & 2 30 Dr Anna Koch Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0488: History of Russia 1598-1856 T1 & 2 30 Prof. Simon Dixon Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0483: History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918 T1 & 2 30 Dr Jakub Benes Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0721: History of the Soviet Union T1 & 2 30 Dr Sergei Bogatyrev Survey 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0212: The Global Economy since 1700
T1 & 2 30 TBC Survey 2021-22 Moodle page AMER0050: The Making of Modern America T1 & 2 30 Dr Zoe Hyman Survey N/A
- Survey Module which cuts across periods
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0140: The History of Political Thought in the West
*BA Ancient History students may choose this as their Ancient History Survey module.
T1 & 2 30 Dr Sam Zeitlin Survey 2023-24 Moodle page
Thematic Modules
We have grouped the 2024-25 Survey modules by theme to help you think about your choices. The 5 themes are:
- Transformations in History
- Rethinking History
- Histories from Below (and Above)
- Subversions, Conflicts and Warfare
- Religious Order and Disorder
- Transformations in History
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0013: The City in the Roman World from c. 100 BC to AD 501 T1 & 2 30 Dr Benet Salway Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0674: Enlightenments and Revolutions T1 & 2 30 Dr Simon Macdonald Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0075: India and the Global Economy, 1500-Present T1 & 2 30 Dr Jagjeet Lally
Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0474: Poland and Lithuania Transformed, 1569-1923 T1 & 2 30 Dr Thomas Lorman Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0031: Rome AD 300 -1000. Portraits of a City- Reflections of a Changing World
T1 & 2 30 Dr Antonio Sennis Thematic 2022-23 Moodle page
- Rethinking History
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0023: Asia, the Aegean, Europe: Dividing the World in Ancient Greece T1 & 2 30 Prof. Paola Ceccarelli Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0399: Emergency History: A Natural History of Humanity for the Present T1 & 2 30 Prof. John Sabapathy Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page
- Histories from Below (and Above)
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0676: A Global History of Socialist Ideas, 1800-1980 T1 & 2 30 Dr Jakub Benes Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0071: History, Memory, Democracy: Politics and the Past in Latin America T1 & 2 30 Dr Bill Booth Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0059: Popular Politics in Early Modern Britain T1 & 2 30 Prof. Jason Peacey Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0015: Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality? T1 & 2 30 Dr Amber Gartrell Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0081: Social Change, New Social Movements, and Politics in Britain After 1945 T1 & 2 30 Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Thematic 2022-23 Moodle page
- Subversions, Conflicts and Warfare
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0087: Africa, Decolonization and Internationalism T1 & 2 30 TBC Thematic 2021-22 Moodle page HIST0088: Disunited States: Contested Visions of America T1 & 2 30 Dr Jane Dinwoodie Thematic 2022-23 Moodle page HIST0083: The Cultural Cold War T1 & 2 30 Dr Iain Stewart Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0073: War, Rebellion, and Social Discontent in Modern China T1 & 2 30 Dr Lily Chang Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page
- Religious Order and Disorder
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle page HIST0470: Crown Church and Estates in Central Europe 1500-1700 T1 & 2 30 Dr Thomas Lorman Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0051: Religious Reformation and Popular Piety, 1450-1650 T1 & 2 30 Prof. Ben Kaplan Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0804: Sin in the Middle Ages: c.400 -c.1550 T1 & 2 30 Dr Emily Corran Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0021: Understanding the Early Mesopotamian World T1 & 2 30 Dr Mark Weeden Thematic 2023-24 Moodle page
Advanced Seminars – Term 1
The Term 1 Advanced Seminars have been grouped by theme to help you think about your choices. The 6 themes are:
- Beliefs and Myths
- Identities
- Shifts and Transformations
- Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
- Environment and the Natural World
- Skills
- *NEW* HIST0906: Environmentalism in Britain and its Empire since 1800
Module Code & Title: HIST0906: Environmentalism in Britain and its Empire since 1800
Module Type: Advanced Seminar
Term: Term 1
Module description:
This class considers the history of ‘environmentalism’ in Britain and its empire during the modern era. As the first industrial nation commanding an empire that encompassed a large segment of the world’s population and natural resources, Britain and its imperial subjects faced problems caused by pollution, damaged ecosystems, and scarcity. The emergence of a faith in limitless economic growth spurred on the drive to accrue wealth and resources that, in turn, precipitated many such challenges. How did the figures and organisations concerned about what we now understand as ‘the environment’ respond to these world-changing shifts? What did they argue should be done to protect the natural world (or just as often, what should not be done) and how did they justify it? How did their arguments become enveloped within wider imperial projects such as ‘colonial development’? In wider cultural and social terms, how did publics at home and abroad engage with environmentalist arguments? And how did the late twentieth-century concept of ‘environmentalism’ differ from the concepts that preceded it during the Victorian era, like ‘conservation’?
The module begins with early nineteenth-century activism around the problems caused by industrialism, moves to the preservation of natural environments as part of ‘conservation’ in Africa and Australia, considers nostalgic arguments for returning to the pre-industrial British landscape during the mid-twentieth century, assesses how Britons thought about ‘the natural world’ during an era of postwar decolonisation in television documentaries and popular books, and ends with the rise of contemporary ‘green’ activism that responded to the use of fossil fuels and rising greenhouse gas emissions. In terms of structure, the module’s ten classes are split into two sections: first, an overview of the history of environmentalism in modern Britain and its empire through primary and secondary readings; second, sessions centred on oral presentations where students gain feedback on their ideas and plans for a final essay. This final essay will combine the assigned class readings with primary/secondary materials sourced by the student, providing an opportunity to pursue individual research interests around the theme of environmentalism.
If you decide you would like a place on this module after Monday 17th June, you will need to apply via the Waiting List.
- Beliefs and Myths
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0228: Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period Term 1 15 Prof. Paola Ceccarelli Advanced Seminar 2021-22 Moodle page HIST0829: Roman Religion: Belief, Culture and Politics Term 1 15 Dr Amber Gartrell
Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Identities
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0888: A Proud Tradition? Sanctuary for Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain Term 1 15 Dr Anna Maguire Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0710: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Term 1 15 TBC Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0900: Medieval Underworlds: Deviants and Outcasts in Europe Term 1 15 Dr Rodrigo Garcia Velasco Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0770: Race, Identity and Empire in the Iberian Atlantic World Term 1 15 Dr Michael Pope Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0894: The West African Sahel in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History from Local Sources Term 1 15 TBC Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Shifts and Transformations
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0773: Culture and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America Term 1 15 Dr Bill Booth Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0824: Dartmouth Exchange Module: Debating Democracy in the Nineteenth-Century United States Term 1 15 Prof. Leslie Butler Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0778: Europe’s First World War, 1911-1923 Term 1 15 Prof. Heather Jones
Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page *Module Description for HIST0824: Dartmouth Exchange Module: Debating Democracy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
The fate of American democracy has become a regular theme in the national news. The attacks on the integrity of the electoral system by a sitting U.S. president and the subsequent storming of the Capitol on January 6th represent just the most alarming events in a larger context of a decades-long attack on voting rights and declining faith in democratic institutions. This course takes us back to the nineteenth century, the moment when the United States first became a democracy recognized around the world.
Across the term, we will explore scholarship that discusses the emerging language and practice of modern democracy; expansions and contractions in voting rights; the place of minorities in majoritarian government; the tensions between American democracy and American slavery; and the contested debates over the citizenship of women and African Americans.
- Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0004: Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970 Term 1 15 Dr Egbert Klautke Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0854: Home, Exile and Displacement in Twentieth Century Central Europe Term 1 15 Dr Anna Koch Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0500: Society and Politics in Late Imperial Russia Term 1 15 Dr Alessandro Iandolo Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0497: The Balkans from Empires to Nation-States Term 1 15 Dr Diana Georgescu Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Environment and the Natural World
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0903: History and Nature in Modern Latin America Term 1 15 Dr Thom Rath Advanced Seminar N/A
- Skills
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0301: History that Counts: Methods and Cases in Quantitative History Term 1 15 TBC Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0310: Teaching History Term 1 15 Dr Jon Chandler Advanced Seminar N/A
Advanced Seminars – Term 2
The Term 2 Advanced Seminars have been grouped by theme to help you think about your choices. The 6 themes are:
- Beliefs and Myths
- Identities
- Shifts and Transformations
- Empires and their Aftermaths
- Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
- Environment and the Natural World
- Beliefs and Myths
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0228: Ancient Greek Religion of the Archaic and Classical Period Term 2 15 Prof. Paola Ceccarelli Advanced Seminar 2021-22 Moodle page HIST0829: Roman Religion: Belief, Culture and Politics Term 2 15 Dr Amber Gartrell Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Identities
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0888: A Proud Tradition? Sanctuary for Refugees in Twentieth Century Britain Term 2 15 Dr Anna Maguire Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0830: American Borderlands: Land and Power at America's Margins Term 2 15 Dr Jane Dinwoodie Advanced Seminar 2021-22 Moodle page HIST0770: Race, Identity and Empire in the Iberian Atlantic World Term 2 15 Dr Michael Pope Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Shifts and Transformations
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0024: Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century Term 2 15 Dr Kristin Roth-Ey Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0773: Culture and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America Term 2 15 Dr Bill Booth Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0255: Emergence of the State Term 2 15 Prof. Peter Schroeder Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0778: Europe’s First World War, 1911 - 1923 Term 2 15 Prof. Heather Jones Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Empires and their Aftermath
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0883: Imperial Dreams: History in Britain, 1776-1832 Term 2 15 Dr Tom Pye Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0272: Law's Empire: Legal Cultures in the British Colonial World Term 2 15 Prof. Margot Finn Advanced Seminar N/A HIST0852: The Universal Museum, the World Fair and the Exhibition of Everything: 1800-today Term 2 15 Dr Eva Rose Miller Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0262: Thinking Postcolonially: Race and Empire in Twentieth Century Britain Term 2 15 TBC Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0494: Fascism and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1918-1945 Term 2 15 Dr Thomas Lorman Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0766: Russia and the World since 1905 Term 2 15 Dr Alessandro Iandolo Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0667: The Contested Country: A History of Hungary, 1790-1990 Term 2 15 Dr Thomas Lorman Advanced Seminar 2023-24 Moodle page
- Environment and the Natural World
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page GEOG0183: Anthropocene Studies Term 2 15 Prof. Andrey Barry & Prof. John Sabapathy Advanced Seminar N/A
Special Subjects
We have grouped the 2024-25 Survey modules by historical period to help you think about your choices.
BA Ancient History students are reminded that they must take an Ancient History Special Subject. We are offering 2 Ancient History Special Subjects next year:
- HIST0099: Competitive Men: The Politics of Competition in Ancient Greece
- HIST0093: Mechanisms of Power: Running the Roman Empire (c. 70BC - AD275)
Students not on the BA Ancient History programme are very welcome to take an Ancient History Special Subject (subject to availability) – they are not restricted to students on the BA Ancient History programme!
In addition to taking the 30 credit taught element of the Special Subject, you will also take the associated dissertation element (also worth 30 credits).
If you are interested in taking HIST0332: History Project (the stand-alone dissertation), please refer to the information on UCL History Undergraduate Module Selection 2024/25 Moodle page, and note that there are strict eligibility criteria and a separate application process.
- Ancient Special Subjects
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0099: Competitive Men: The Politics of Competition in Ancient Greece T1 & T2 30 Prof. Paola Ceccarelli Special Subject 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0093: Mechanisms of Power: Running the Roman Empire (c. 70BC - AD275) T1 & T2 30 Dr Benet Salway Special Subject N/A
- Medieval and Early Modern Special Subjects
Module Code and Title Teaching Term Credits Tutor Module Type Moodle Page HIST0106: Between Order and Disorder: Cities in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World T1 & T2 30 Dr Patrick Lantschner Special Subject 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0107: Great Britain and the American Colonies 1760-1776 (1) T1 & T2 30 Dr Jon Chandler Special Subject 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0781: Ivan the Terrible and the Russian Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century (I) T1 & T2 30 Dr Sergei Bogatyrev Special Subject 2023-24 Moodle page HIST0114: The British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1637-60 T1 & T2 30 Prof. Jason Peacey Special Subject 2020-21 Moodle page
- Modern Special Subjects
Provisional modes of assessment for History Modules in
2024-25
Module Type | Provisional modes of assessment for History modules with a HIST code |
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Survey (30 credits) |
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Second Year Research Seminars (30 credits) |
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Thematics (30 credits) |
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Advanced Seminar (15 credits) |
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Special Subjects (60 credits) |
*Please note that HIST0537 is assessed by a portfolio instead of an exam. |
AMER-coded modules and GEOG-coded modules are run by the Institute of the Americas and the Department of Geography respectively. If you have any queries about the modes of assessment for these and other interdepartmental modules, please contact the relevant Teaching Department.