Current Undergraduate Modules

Current modules for UCL Institute of the Americas undergraduate students.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Module availability can and does change each academic year. For more information please e-mail our Teaching Administration Team americas.ese@ucl.ac.uk or give them a call on +44 (0)20 7679 9746

Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3

Year 1

Modules marked * can also be selected in Year 2

AMER0038: Encountering the Americas: Key Themes and Concepts | compulsory

AMER0039: Introduction to Politics | compulsory

* AMER0050: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920

* AMER0051: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920 | Term 1 Affiliate

* AMER0051: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920 | Term 2 Affiliate

* AMER0074: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present

* AMER0078: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present | Term 1 Affiliate

* AMER0078: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present | Term 2 Affiliate

Language: Spanish, Portuguese, French | optional

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Year 2

Modules marked * can be selected in Year 2 if not previously taken. Modules marked ^ can be selected in either Year 2 or the final year (Year 3 or 4).

^AMER0046: Protest Politics in the United States from the New Deal to Donald Trump

^ AMER0048: Politics of the United States: Processes and Institutions

* AMER0050: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920

* AMER0051: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920 | Term 1 Affiliate

* AMER0051: The Making of Modern America: The United States since 1920 | Term 2 Affiliate

^ AMER0052: Gender, Politics and Society in the Americas

AMER0053: Investigating the Americas: Research Approaches and Skills

^ AMER0054: London and the United States: The Difference a City Makes

^ AMER0055: Intimate Matters: Histories of Sexuality in the U.S. and Beyond, 1945-present

^AMER0056: Pivotal Decade: The 1970s in US Political, Social, Cultural and Economic History

AMER0066: Political Economy of Economic Development

^AMER0067: The Caribbean in the Shadow of the North: Caribbean-US Relations in the Twentieth Century

^ AMER0068: The United States and the Cold War

* AMER0074: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present

* AMER0078: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present | Term 1 Affiliate

* AMER0078: History and Politics of Latin America c.1930 to the Present | Term 2 Affiliate

^ AMER0080: Power and Politics in Everyday Life: Topics in the Anthropology of the Americas

^AMER0081: The Haitian Revolution

^AMER0083: Latin American Revolutions

^ AMER0093: The Political Ecology of Development in Latin America

^AMER0104: The International Relations of the Americas

^AMER0109: Commodities and Communities in Latin American and Caribbean History

^AMER0110: Contested Bodies: Medicine and Health Politics in the United States

^AMER0112: Shadows of the Soul: Photography and the Construction of Race in the US, 1860-1980

^AMER0115: US Elections and Political Behaviour

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AMER0069: International Politics of Latin America (not available in 2025/26)

AMER0088: The Caribbean Radical Tradition, 1791-2020: Introduction to Black Intellectual History (not available in 2025/26)

AMER0095: The United States of Empire: Place and Power in US Foreign Relations (not available in 2025/26)

AMER0114: North American Environmental History (not available in 2025/26)

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Final Year

The modules listed below may only be taken in the final year of study (year 3 or 4). Additionally, please also see the options marked ^ listed under Year 2, which may be taken in either Year 2 or the final year.

AMER0059: Contemporary Issues in the Americas

AMER0061: Dissertation

AMER0062: Human Rights in the Americas

AMER0064: Out of the Closet: US Sexual Politics since the Great Depression

AMER0065: Voting in the Americas

AMER0098: Latin America’s Cold War

AMER0113: Representing the Past: Museums, Heritage and Public History

AMER0116: Political Data Analysis Skills (Level 6&7)

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AMER0058: American Political Thought (not available in 2025/26)

AMER0060: Crime and Control in the Americas (not available in 2025/26)

AMER0063: Political Economy of Inequality in the Americas (not available in 2025/26)