Undergraduate
Online BA
History
Structure
& Syllabus
To complete
this online degree you must study a combination
of units and half units that add up to the equivalent of twelve
whole units.
Level 1:
Foundation units
Two half
units chosen from:
The material world: culture and environment in the last
millennium [HISF001]
History and meanings [HISF002]
State, society and the individual in the non-western world
[HISF003]
Level 1: Gateway units
Three full
units, or the equivalent, chosen from:
Full units
The birth of western Christendom AD 300-1215 [HISF004]
Conflict and identity in the modern world from 1789 to the
present day [HISF005]
Republics, kings and people: the foundations of modern
political culture [HISF006]
The rich tapestry of life: A social and cultural history
of Europe c. 1500-1780 [HISF007]
Half units
Introduction to Greek literature [CLAF001]
Introduction to Roman literature [CLAF002]
Introduction to ancient philosophy [CLAF003]
Greek history and the city-state [CLAF004]
Roman history and society: the Julio-Claudians
[CLAF005]
The birth of Christian Europe [CLAF006]
Introduction to Greek archaeology [CLAF007]
Introduction to Roman art [CLAF008]
Level 2
Two Group A
units AND two Group B units chosen from
the list below.
Level 3
Two Group B
units AND one Group C double unit chosen
from the list below.
Levels 2
and 3: optional units
Group A full units
From nation state to multiple monarchy: British history,
1485-1649 [HISA008]
British history 1770-1990 [HISA009]
Modern times: international economic history c. 1901-1990
[HISA011]*
Homer
[CLAI009]
Virgil
[CLAI010]
Greek history to 322 BC [CLAI011]*
Augustus: propaganda and power [CLAI012]
The built environment in classical antiquity [CLAI013]
Group B full units
The Crusades and the eastern Mediterranean 1095-1291
[HISB012]*
Experience, culture and identity: women’s lives in England
1688-c. 1850 [HISB013]
Ethnicity, identity and citizenship in modern British life
[HISB014]
Modern political ideas [HISB015]
Roman Britain [CLAI014]
Greek drama [CLAA015]*
From Nero to Hadrian: literature and society
[CLAA016]*
The dialogues of Plato [CLAA017]*
Women in antiquity [CLAA018]*
The Roman army [CLAA019]*
Pompeii
[CLAA020]*
Group C
double units
Blasphemy, irreligion and the English Enlightenment
1650-1720 [HISC016]*
US foreign policy during the `high’ Cold War: Berlin, Cuba
and Vietnam [HISC017]*
Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in the
USA [HISC018]*
Politics and society in Palestine from c. 1900 to 1948
[HISC019]*
Note:
Not all units will necessarily be available in every year.
