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College of
Arts and Humanities
BA History
Module Information
2014-2015
Department of History and Classics
BA History Modules
Single honours students must take HIH117, HIH118, HIH121 and HIH122.
Joint honours students must take HIH122.
LEVEL ONE
Teaching Block 1 Teaching Block 2
HIH118 World History: 1500 – 1800 HIH117 Medieval Europe: an introduction (20)
HIH121 Europe of Extremes: 1789 – 1989 HIH122 Making History
All modules on the above list are 20 credits. Students must take 120 credits over the year.BA History Modules
LEVEL TWO
Teaching Block 1 Teaching Block 2
MODULES
HIH237 Practice of History [compulsory]
Group A
ML-242 European Fascisms (80)
HIH222 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe (80)
HIH253 The Welsh Century 1848−1948 (80)
HIH268 From War to Revolution: France 1914−1968
(80)
HIH267 History of Mass Media in the UK (80)
HIH258 Occupied Europe (100)
HIH226 Post-War Reconstruction (80)
HIH272 The Cold War (80)
HIH264 Hanes ar y Teledu
HIH266 Researching and Re-telling the Past (Medicine
and Poverty) (15)
HIH251 War & British Society 1688−1815 (80)
HUA203 Digital War
AM-217 Making of Transatlantic America HIH255 The First World War (45)
AM-218 The American South
AM-245 JFK and America
SHP206 Medicine and Society in Britain,
PO-281 British Politics and Public Policy 1300−2000
PO-256 Genocide
HUA206 Contemporary War and Conflict since 1945
Group B
HIH260 Athens to Los Alamos: Science in the Ancient CLH292 History of Ancient Technology and
& Modern Worlds (80) Engineering (80)
HIH2011 Heirs of Rome (80) HIH227 Medieval Britain (100)
HIH252 War and Society in the Anglo-Norman World HIH2017 The Crisis of the Late Medieval Church (80)
(80)
HIH246 Europe, 1650−1800: Reason to Romanticism HIH259 British Atlantic World 1550−1760 (80)
(100)
HIH235 Golden Age of Iberia, 1450−1700 (80) HIH240 Europe 1500−1650: Renaissance,
Reformation and Religious War (80)
HIH272W Credoau’r Cymry
All modules on the above list are 20 credits. Numbers in brackets indicate caps
Programme Director: Prof. M Whitehead (m.whitehead@swansea.ac.uk)BA History Modules
LEVEL THREE
Teaching Block B1 Teaching Block 2
MODULES
HIH3301 Welsh Society in the Later Middle Ages,
HIH3171 Family, Sex and Intimacy in Early Modern 1267−1536 (40)
England (40)
HIH3178 European Empires in the East (40)
HIH378 Revolutionary America (40)
HIH377 The Grand Tour (40)
HIH3019 Renaissance Venice (40)
HIH3319 History of Violence (100)
HIH3318 Invention, Innovation and Technological
Revolutions (40)
HIH3215 Media & Society in the 1930s (40) HIH396 From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government
and society in Western political thought (40)
HIH3033 Weimar Germany (40) HIH3326 Britain since 1945 (40)
HUA308 Real War, Imagined War: Depictions of War
HIH3330 Class and Community in the South Wales in Art, Literature and Film
Coalfield 1900−2000 (15)
AM-335 The American civil war in history and memory
HIH300W Concro’r Byd – Twf a Chwymp
Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
HUA305 Spanish Civil War
HUA301 Gunfighter Nation: the West in History,
Mythology and Fiction
AM-337 America in the 1960s
HUA306 Aftermaths of War
SHP353 Hospitals in History c.1700−1948Special Subjects (these run across TB1 and 2) Single hons students take one module from this list. Joint honours students either take a special subject module or a history dissertation. 1. HIH3239/30 Reign of King John 1199−1216: Misrule & Magna Carta (15) 2. HIH3257/8 Blood and Roses: England, 1450−1500 (15) 3. HIH3247/8 Art and Society in Early Renaissance Italy (15) 4. HIH3233/4 The Reformation in Tudor England and Europe (15) 5. HIH3227/8 Merchants and Marvels. Long distance trade in the early modern world, 1450−1650 (15) 6. HIH3217/8 Liberty, Slavery, and the American Revolution (15) 7. HIH3313/4 Imperial Nation? Britain and empire, 1750−1900 (15) 8. HIH3253/4 Fear, Conformity and Oppression in Fascist Italy (15) 9. HIH3225/6 Vienna, 1900−1955 (15) 10. HIH3315/6 France in Crisis 1935−44 (15) 11. HIH3328/9 Britain and America in the Atomic Age (15) 12. HIH3221/2 The Long 1968: Protest in a Global Perspective, 1960−80 (15) 13. HIH3322/3 Cymru a’r Rhyfel Mawr (15)
Level 1 - Module Information HIH118 World History: 1500 – 1800 Year 1 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis A comparative survey of Asia, Europe and the Americas, examining the growing dominance of European civilization and the far-reaching Western revolutions - scientific, economic and political - of the 17th and 18th century. HIH121 Europe of Extremes: 1789 – 1989 Year 1 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Presentation, Examination Synopsis The nineteenth century saw the rise of a western European civilization, characterized, as Eric Hobsbawm has noted, by capitalist economics, liberal politics, and the dominance of a middle class that celebrated morality and science. In the twentieth century this civilization faced unprecedented challenges from new political ideologies, and from a working class demanding the right to govern in its own name. The result was an eruption of violence not seen on the continent for centuries; in its wake, the Cold War divided the Europe with an Iron Curtain, and saw the continent become the client of two world superpowers – the USA and the Soviet Union. This team-taught module relies on the specialist knowledge of its tutors to examine economic, political and social themes in the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. HIH117 Medieval Europe: an introduction Year 1 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis The module is a basic introduction to the history of Europe c1100-c1400, a period usually described as ‘Medieval’. It outlines the political and economic structures of the period, and examines the medieval ‘world view’ by discussing attitudes to life, death and the afterlife. Its first theme, expansion, charts the growth of Europe as a major world power and includes topics such as the crusades against the Muslims and pagans, political and economic growth, and intellectual development in the foundation of the universities. Its second theme, crisis, focuses on the devastating impact of plague, famine and warfare, and the increasing persecution of heretics, lepers, homosexuals, and Jews. Department of History and Classics 6
Level 1 - Module Information HIH122 Making History Year 1 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Class Test 1 - Held under exam conditions, Coursework 1, Presentation Synopsis History is an imprecise art and what historians say and write about the past is not the same as what actually happened in the past. Most people’s knowledge about the past doesn’t come from professional historians at all but rather from ‘public history’. Public history is the collective understandings of the past that exist outside academic discipline of history. It is derived from a diverse range of sources including oral traditions, legends, literature, art, films and television. This module will introduce you to the study and presentation of the past. It will consider how the content, aims and methods of academic and public history compare and contrast and you will engage in your own small research project to investigate this. The module will also teach you about the fundamentals of studying and writing history at university. You will learn about essay writing, group work and critical analysis and employ these skills to understand and assess history today, both as an academic activity and as public knowledge. Department of History and Classics 7
Level 2 - Module Information HIH2011 - The Heirs of Rome: The Making of Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam in the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Class test/online test, 1500 word essay, and 2-hour exam. Synopsis The period between AD 400 and 800 saw the unmaking of the world of antiquity and the forging of the new civilizations of medieval Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam. It is, in short, an era with reverberations that are keenly felt in the present. This module will trace the main outlines of this seminal period, showing how the heritage of the Roman world was transformed in diverse ways during the early medieval centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of new forms of polity, religion, and socio-economic structures. On completion of the module, students will have a keen appreciation of how and why the different regions of eastern and western Europe and the Middle East, once untied under Roman rule, had come to follow widely diverging destinies. HIH2017 - The State of the Church in Later Medieval Europe Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 - 3,000 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis This module will examine the history of the late medieval church in an institutional sense, focusing on the papacy and its relations with the states of Europe. It will also try to explore the faith of pre-reformation Europe through a study of the orders of friars and of the phenomenon referred to by historian as 'lay piety' - the expression of religious conviction through the membership of confraternities, for example. It will also consider the challenges presented to the Orthodox Church by such heretical movements as the Lollards of England and the Hussites of Bohemia. The module will be taught by lecture. HIH222 - Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1815 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Seminar Presentation (done in groups), 2,500 word essay, and 2-hour exam. Synopsis Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was in a state of almost constant warfare. The French Revolutionary wars, the rise of Napoleon and the creation of a French Empire had a profound impact on the other European powers, great and small. This module explores the consequences of over two decades of warfare and French imperialism on Europe. It investigates the nature of the French Revolution and its impact upon European politics and society, the subsequent wars and the rise , character and fall of the Napoleonic Empire. In addition it will examine the reaction of the European states and peoples to French military success and dominance. Finally, it discusses the long-term legacies left by Napoleon and the wars. Department of History and Classics 8
Level 2 - Module Information HIH226 - Post-War Reconstruction: Europe 1945 - 1956 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis The module begins by examining the conditions on the continent at the end of the war in 1945 and then concentrates on the social and political reconstruction of both East and West Europe. A number of countries will be used as case studies, including Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the two Germanies and Austria. The course will end with the burning rubble in Budapest in 1956. HIH227 - Medieval Britain 1250-1520 (HIH22710 credit version for Law students only) Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2, 500 word essay and two hour exam Synopsis This module on British history in the later medieval period investigates the relationship between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France, raising questions about conquest, nationalism, patriotism and race. It will also look at the social, economic and cultural history of Britain (eg the rise of English as a literary language) as well as the internal problems each country faced as it battled against plague, revolts and civil war. HIH235 - The Golden Age of Iberia, 1450-1700 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay, group presentation, and 2-hour exam. Synopsis This course will provide an introduction to the history of Spain, Portugal and their empires in the early modern period. Students will come away with a broad knowledge of the political, cultural, religious and social history of Iberia during its period of greatest influence. We will begin by surveying the political history of Castile, Aragon and Portugal, seeking to understand the complex series of inheritances and political manoeuvres that created Spain. After looking at Early Modern Iberian imperial government, we will turn to the area’s social and intellectual history. Here we will discuss Portuguese and Spanish culture, literature and art, as well as the intense religious fervour that launched both a global missionary effort and the Inquisition. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to studying the Spanish and Portuguese empires, both in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Here, our perspective will be decidedly metropolitan as we seek to understand how Iberian social and political institutions were exported overseas. We will also discuss the problems encountered by the Iberian monarchy as it attempted to manage the world’s first truly global empire and faced the problem of dynastic decline. Department of History and Classics 9
Level 2 - Module Information HIH237 Practice of History Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Group Work - Presentation, Project Synopsis The purpose of this module is to discuss the varieties of historical sources explored by historians, the uses that are made of this material, and the intellectual and practical problems which can arise. The module will address the distinction between primary and secondary sources and the origins of this distinction with the emergence of History as a discipline. It will examine the ways in which contemporary trends in post-structuralist theory have problematised these issues. The materials may include: paintings, films, oral testimonies, autobiographies and memoirs, newspapers, statistics, government records and maps. HIH240 - Europe 1500-1650: Renaissance, Reformation and Religious War Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2500 word essay and two 1250 word source analysis Synopsis Between the end of the fifteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth, Europe experienced a series of profound disruptions and transformations. Events such as the spread of Renaissance artistic and literary values, the creation and partition of the Habsburg Empire, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the French Wars of Religion, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years’ War, contributed to the reshaping of the political map and Europe and altered the lives of its inhabitants. This course explore not only the political significance of these events, and their effects on the ruling classes, but also their implications for wider European society and culture. Particular attention will be paid to using the knowledge acquired to understand written and visual sources produced in the period. HIH246 - Europe 1650-1800: From Reason to Romanticism Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination 1 Synopsis By about 1750 it had become common for educated Europeans to refer to their century as an 'age of reason' or an 'enlightened epoch'. One aim of this course is to understand what they meant by these phrases. It traces the origins of 'reason' and 'enlightenment' in the mid-seventeenth century and charts the progress of the Enlightenment movement across Europe (including, of course, Britain) and through European society. It assesses the practical impact of the Enlightenment on government policy and action: the later eighteenth century was the period of 'enlightened absolutism'. And it suggests some of the ways in which the Enlightenment contributed to urban life and growth, for example in the development of 'rational' architecture and town planning.The later part of the course turns from Reason and Enlightenment to Romanticism and examines the relationship between the two. Was the Romantic Movement, with its twin themes of individualism and nationalism, a revolt against the rational eighteenth century or a dialogue with it? Romanticism will be studied thematically, as it was revealed in literature, in music, in art and architecture, and in the philosophy and experience of revolution. Department of History and Classics 10
Level 2 - Module Information HIH251 - War and British Society 1688 – 1815 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination 1, Coursework 1 Synopsis This module examines the extent to which recurrent warfare as an agent of economic, social, and cultural change in Britain between 1688 and 1815. Particular emphasis is placed upon the war-driven growth of the state, the reform of government, and the establishment of effective publc finance mechanisms; but war-related social costs, stresses, and strains are also considered, together with government responses. Finally, the relationship between war and industrialisation is assessed in the context of wider discussion of the performance of Britain's wartime economy. HIH252 - War and Society in the Anglo-Norman World Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis This module will examine Anglo-Norman warfare in the two centuries between the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and the civil war between Henry III and rebel English barons in 1264-65. It will look at the methods of warfare as well as to their impact upon Anglo-Norman society. Themes include comparisons with Anglo-Saxon and ‘Celtic’ warfare, rebellion, chivalry and tournaments, the place of the Church and women in Anglo-Norman warfare, and representations of conflict in manuscripts and the Bayeux Tapestry. HIH253 - The Welsh Century: Politics, Nationality and Religion, 1847-1947 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis This survey of modern Welsh history from the 1847 report on the state of education in Wales, to the social reforms of the Attlee government at the end of the Second World War, traces the emergence of Welsh identity through key developments such as temperance and the Sunday Closing Act, religion and the disestablishment of the church and the emergence of Welsh national institutions. It considers how Welshness adapted to and intersected with other loyalties, defined by race, gender, class and empire, and it deals with the changing social and cultural scene which saw anglicizing influences alter demographic and linguistic patterns in Wales. HIH255 - First World War: Politics, Society and Culture 1870-1933 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2-hour exam and 2,500 word essay. Synopsis To what extent (if at all) did the First World War transform modern societies? This module engages with this key question by examining the totality of the First World War – a conflict viewed by many as the first ‘total war’ - and its impact on the modern world. The causes, course and consequences of the conflict are explored though a range of approaches: military, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, moral and legal. Department of History and Classics 11
Level 2 - Module Information HIH258 - Occupied Europe Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis During the course of the Second World War, almost all of continental Europe fell under German control. What was life like in occupied Europe? How did leaders and ordinary citizens cope with occupation and its ensuing hardships? In this module, we will interrogate concepts such as ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’ in an effort to understand why people made the choices they did in a tense and terrible situation. The module will explore the enormous impact of occupation on communities across the continent, examining the nature and repercussions of forced labour, population transfers, resistance and reprisals, deportation, and the mass murder of Europe’s Jews and Roma. HIH259 - British Atlantic World c.1550-1760 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Essay of 2,500 words and 2-hour Exam Synopsis This module will provide an overview of central aspects of the social, cultural and political history of Britain and its American colonies between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries. The module will examine the politics, culture and society of Britain in this period and assess how the development of Britain’s overseas colonies in North America contributed to Britain’s emergence as a world power by the eighteenth century. The first part of the module will explore changing patterns of belief, social and economic structures and political participation in Britain set against the backdrop of the Reformation and the political and ideological struggles that resulted in the civil wars of the seventeenth century. Part 2 examines the formation of the American colonies and British Empire from attempts to settle Roanoke Island in the 1580s to British conquest of Quebec in the French and Indian War in 1760 (the American theatre of the Seven Years’ War of 1756-63). It examines sixteenth-century exploration, trade, and plunder, origins of the idea of empire, development of British-American and African-American societies and cultures, the destruction of Native-American societies and cultures, in the Chesapeake, West Indies, New England, Middle Colonies, Lower South, and Canada, and will analyse ideas of empire through the eyes of intellectuals, merchants, colonial founders, migrants (free and enslaved), and finally the monarchs and ministers who attempted to shape the politics and constitution of empire. HIH260 - From Athens to Los Alamos: Science in the Ancient & Modern Worlds Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: online test, 1500 word essay and 2-hour exam. Synopsis While developments in science and scientific medicine have played a key part in the shaping the modern world, the contrast between twenty-first century knowledge and the knowledge of our ancestors can make it easy to overlook continuities in the study of nature over the centuries. So too can the image of science as, in some sense, an apolitical enterprise divorced from its social and cultural settings. This module will take a long view of the development of western science, beginning in the ancient world and ending in the twentieth century. It will study scientific institutions, theories, and methods, and demonstrate how these - along with the reasons for studying nature - have changed over time and have both shaped and been shaped by society and culture. As part of the attempt to understand the significance of the changing scientific enterprise to the history of western civilization, it will address the question of what constitutes science and consider debates about when it came into being. Department of History and Classics 12
Level 2 - Module Information HIH264 - Hanes ar y Teledu Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Adolygiad Beirniadol (1,000 o eiriau); Traethawd (3,000 o eiriau) Synopsis Beth sydd i'w ddysgu am y ffordd y mae haneswyr yn ymarfer eu crefft trwy astudio rhaglenni hanes ar y teledu? Sut mae cyflwyniad yr hanes yn y rhaglenni, a rôl yr haneswyr wrth greu y rhaglenni, wedi newid dros y blynyddoedd? Bwriad y modiwl hwn fydd defnyddio rhaglenni hanes er mwyn astudio sut mae ffordd yr hanesydd o feddwl wedi datblygu gydag amser, ac ystyried sut y defnyddiwyd hanes i gefnogi rhai safbwyntiau. Ceir enghreifftiau o gyfresi neu raglenni sy'n pwysleisio hanes `cenedlaethol', hanes gwleidyddol-economaidd, hanes cymdeithasol, hanes Marcsaidd, hanes ôl-strwythurol ac yn y blaen. Defnyddir nifer o astudiaethau manwl o raglenni a chyfresi i ystyried sut y mae digwyddiadau penodol wedi cael eu portreadu mewn ffurf wahanol ar adegau gwahanol, gyda'r cyflwyniad yn amrywio yn ôl ffasiwn hanesyddol a gofynion cymdeithasol neu wleidyddol y cyfnod. Er enghraifft, byddwn yn astudio'r ffyrdd y mae hanes terfysg yng Nghymru yn y 19eg a'r 20fed ganrif wedi cael ei bortreadu, fel enghraifft ddiddorol o'r ffordd mae cydymdeimlad yr awdur / y cynhyrchwyr at achos y terfysgwyr wedi lliwio'r stori a adroddir. Testun arall a fydd o ddiddordeb penodol i fyfyrwyr hanes Cymru yw cwestiwn `hanes cenedlaethol', a'r tensiynau a all godi o'r cysyniad hwnnw, boed yr hanes a gyflwynir yn un `Prydeinig' neu `Cymreig'. HIH266 - Researching and Re-telling the Past Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: group work on public output; research project and linked oral presentation Synopsis In 2014-15 the module will focus on the history of disability, medicine and poverty in the age of the Industrial Revolution. Using primary source materials held locally in the Richard Burton Archives, the West Glamorgan Record Office and online resources, we will examine how those injured or disabled through working in the industries of South Wales received treatment, how their lives were affected, and how sickness and disability were perceived more widely in the nineteenth century. We will focus on various responses to poverty provided by the Poor Law, charities and organisations such as Friendly Societies which acted as early forms of health insurance. The module will be taught in a variety of ways, via lectures that will give you background information on the topic, workshops that introduce you to working in archives and presenting your findings to a wider audience, research sessions in the archives where you undertake your own research on an aspect of the topic that interests you, and seminars where you present your finings. You will undertake a research project and also present your findings through public outputs. These will tie in with Disability History Month, which runs annually from mid-November to mid-December, and could take the form of a blog, archive visitor guide or educational resource. Department of History and Classics 13
Level 2 - Module Information HIH267 - The History of the Mass Media in the United Kingdom Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: A critical evaluation of the historical significance of a media product or form, a group presentation on the media representation of an historical event and an individual reflective paper on the presentation. Synopsis This module examines the historical development of the mass media in the United Kingdom, focusing on the emergence of the 'old' media of print, broadcasting and cinema. It examines the institutional histories of these media, the changing relationship with their audiences and the development of their content. Debates about the social impact of these media will be examined as well as the different interpretations of their representation of society and the past. The factors that have shaped their ability to represent society such as censorship, commerce, ownership, propaganda and news management will be addressed. HIH268 - From War to Revolution: France 1914-1968 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework (two essays) Synopsis From the outbreak of the First World War to the uprising of May 1968, France endured one of the most turbulent periods in its history. The French experienced triumph in 1918 yet political, economic and social crisis almost tore the country apart in the interwar years. After the Nazi invasion of 1940, France entered its darkest years, as collaborators and resisters clashed and the ordinary French faced a daily struggle for survival. New challenges arose in the post-war years with the decline of the French empire, mass immigration, the emergence of the superpowers and lasting changes in French society. This course covers the most significant events and themes in this period, including the Great War, the crisis of the 1930s, the Vichy regime, the Cold War and the war in Algeria. Students will use a variety of sources and will develop an understanding of France’s history during the twentieth century, the place of France in the wider world and how the French have come to terms with their own past. No knowledge of French is required. HIH272 - The Cold War Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis The Cold War dominated much of the second half of the twentieth century. While tensions between the two superpowers over the status of Berlin or during the Cuban missile crisis bore the potential of escalating into a nuclear war, the Cold War did not turn hot with the exception of proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. Instead, it remained by and large an ‘imaginary war’ (Mary Kaldor). This second year option examines this crucial period in twentieth-century history within a global perspective, shedding light on different arenas in which the Cold War was fought, including its origins, its impact on the ‘Third World’, science and technology, sports, popular culture, gender, consumerism and lifestyle as well as its manifold legacies that can be felt to the present day (e.g. political and environmental). The course introduces students to chief debates and key secondary literature as well as a wide range of primary sources, including government documents, newspapers and magazines as well as popular culture and visual arts. Department of History and Classics 14
Level 2 - Module Information HIH272W - Credoau'r Cymry: Astudio Athroniaeth ac Athrawiaeth Gymreig o Safbwynt Rhyngwladol Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Coursework 2, Coursework 3 Synopsis Cyflwyniad i syniadau rhai o ffigyrau mwyaf adnabyddus yn hanes Cymru yw hanfod y modiwl hwn. Fe fydd myfyrwyr yn cael y cyfle i astudio unigolion megis Glyndwr, Robert Owen, Aneurin Bevan a Gwynfor Evans. Mae’n cynnig i fyfyrwyr dealltwriaeth o rai o’u hegwyddorion a chysyniadau craidd. Dadansoddir yr athroniaethau mewn cyd-destun rhyngwladol, gan ystyried eu cysylltiadau gyda digwyddiadau a syniadau ehangach yr oes. Trwy fabwysiadu’r safbwynt yma, ceir cyfle nid yn unig i ymgyfarwyddo â syniadau cynhenid Cymreig, ond hefyd dod i ddeall hanfodion ysgolion o feddwl ehangach megis sosialaeth, cenedlaetholdeb a heddychiaeth. HUA203 - Digital War Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination Synopsis This module critically explores the use of digital technology in contemporary warfare and conflict. It considers the military use of digital technologies and weapons; the media reporting of warfare, conflict and terrorism; the use of difital technologies by non-state actors and by citizens as part of warfare or conflicts and the broader penetration of digital culture by real, historical or fictional wars and conflicts. HUA206 – Contemporary War and Conflict since 1945 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Other (Coursework) Synopsis This module introduces and critically explores contemporary warfare and conflict, from post WWII up to the present War on Terror. It considers the de-colonization/independence wars; the Cold War proxy conflicts; post-1990 New Wars and the War on Terror. AM-217 - The Making of Transatlantic America Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination Synopsis This multidisciplinary module seeks to offer a re-appraisal of early American history from the period c. 1607 through c. 1783 as well as understand other elements – geography, economics, philosophy, literature, and politics – that helped determine the shape of early American society. Students will examine some of the most dynamic topics of current early American scholarship and issues as they developed in an emerging world: the roles of race and gender; the changing nature of the colonial family; the sexual practices of early colonists; emigration and the ‘peopling’ of empire; the role of the ‘frontier;’ backcountry violence; crime; the formation of provincial elites; and uneasy international rivalries. Department of History and Classics 15
Level 2 - Module Information AM-218 – The American South Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination 1, Coursework 1 Synopsis What is the ‘South’? Where is the ‘South’? What makes someone a ‘southerner’? Can the South ever be regarded as a single cultural or historical entity, or are there many ‘Souths’? Does the ‘South’ exist any longer? Much ink has been spilled over these questions amongst both historians and professional “South watchers.” Over the years, many “central themes” have been used to define and label the region: food, climate, folkways, music, popular culture, slavery, race relations, geography and even history itself. Questions of regional identity – how southerners perceive themselves and their region (how others perceive both) and how this sense of regional identity has been molded by mythical interpretations of the past – are some of the key themes in this interdisciplinary module. This module shall explore the history and culture of the American South from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through to the mid-1950s and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. The module shall consider the emergence of the “New” South; late C19th southern politics; the ‘Lost Cause;’ the rise of ‘Jim Crow’ and racial segregation; lynching; the Ku Klux Klan; the Scopes Trial; the South and the New Deal; the South and World War II; and the Brown Decision. We will also have opportunity to examine aspects of southern literature and the representation of the South in film. AM-245 - John F. Kennedy and America Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination 1, Coursework 1 Synopsis The image of John F Kennedy has acquired an extraordinary influence in the American political system and his charisma gave him a compelling hold on the political imagination of progressives, not only in the United States but around the world. This module analyses the factors which shaped the career of John F. Kennedy as a politician, as well as the impact of the policies he implemented, and examines the legacy his life left on the American political system. Students will be encouraged to examine the career and policies of JFK and consider contending approaches to assessing the influence of Kennedy on the USA and the impact of his image and reputation for subsequent generations of US political leaders. PO-256 – Genocide Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis It is widely claimed that during the twentieth century over sixty million people were killed by premeditated acts of genocide, which targeted specific ethnic, religious, racial or class-related groups. Why did the twentieth century witness so many occurrences of deliberate genocide, on such unprecedented scales? To what degree was the Holocaust against Europe's Jews unique, and to what degree did it share causes. characteristics and results with other paroxysms of mass killing? How should genocide be defined, in order to differentiate it clearly from other forms of mass killing? Are there effective means of preventing, punishing and/or overcoming genocide? This module examines the ways in which genocide has resulted (in the main) from modern attempts to create ethno-culturally 'purged' and/ or homogenized' nation states-primarily in the Western hemisphere, whence it has been transmitted to non-Western societies by European colonialism and/or by often misguided ad potentially lethal attempts to replicate Western models of ethno-cultural 'purging' and 'homogenization' in non-Western contexts. This module assesses the main attempts to explain the unprecedented incidence and scale of genocide in modern times. It undertakes case studies of the genocides perpetrated by various European states during the 1940's and 1990s, the so-called 'colonial genocides' in the Americas, Australasia and parts of Africa, the mass destruction of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian subjects during the First World War, and the mass killings which occurred in the USSR between 1932 and 1950, in East Asia from 1937 to 1945, in Cambodia from 1975-1976, and in Rwanda in 1994. Department of History and Classics 16
Level 2 - Module Information PO-281 - British Politics and Public Policy Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis This module examines British political debates on public policy as they have developed from the New Liberals to the Labour Government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It looks at five key periods and controversies. Firstly the purpose and achievements of the so-called ‘New Liberalism’ of the turn of the century and beyond. Secondly public policy during the crises of the inter-war years. Thirdly, we will examine the question of the post-war ‘consensus’ over public policy. The fourth topic is the origins and nature of Thatcherism while the fifth is the origins and development of the Labour Government since 1997. Students following this module will thus develop a sound knowledge and appreciation of the ongoing debates about the nature and purpose of public policy as well as arguments over the means of implementation. They will also find themselves able to place contemporary debate into its vital historical perspective SHP206 - Maximum Efficiency? Medicine and Society c. 1500-2000 Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Assignment 2, Assignment 1 Synopsis The course begins by situating medicine within the discourse about modernity and the ideas of Michel Foucault (which students are encouraged to explore and test throughout the course). Students are encouraged to see knowledge/power as operating in a variety of ways in society: top-down, bottom-up and side-to-side, by various agencies (including the state, the private sector, other powerful social groups, and individuals). As part of these interactions, Modern Medicine and Modern Society are mutually constituted, symbiotically. This framework is then deployed through seven case studies dealing with the control of plague, the development of the public health movement, the measurement of madness, the management of childbirth, the rehabilitation of industrial injuries, the relationship of medicine and war and society, and the policing of drug abuse. These case studies introduce a range of historical sources (documents, statistics, film) and theoretical ideas (collectivism, professional knowledge and power, disability and citizenship, family and community). There is also a visit to the South Wales Coalfield Archive to develop ideas of how history translates documentary raw material into primary source evidence. The module concludes by asking whether the expansion of twentieth-century medicine/medicalisation has been associated with a shift from public health to personal surveillance and control. ML-242 - European Fascisms Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis This comparative module introduces students to the political and cultural contexts of four different twentieth-century fascist regimes in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Department of History and Classics 17
Level 2 - Module Information CLH292 - History of Ancient Technology and Engineering Year 2 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination Synopsis This module explores the material world of Greece and Rome. The design, construction or production of the structures and objects with which the ancients furnished their world is the subject of study. The particular topics covered include: Civil, mechanical and military engineering The manufacture of everyday products e.g. leather, ceramics, textiles. Department of History and Classics 18
Level 3 - Module Information HIH3300 - History Dissertation Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 40 Assessment: progress report + outline + a bibiliography, 10,000 word Dissertation and Oral Presentation (viva). Synopsis The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests. HIH377 - The Grand Tour, c1550 - c.1800 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2, 500 word assignment essay and 2-hour examination Synopsis The eighteenth century saw a marked increase in the number of British men and women visiting continental Europe to complete their education with a period of travel. The so-called Grand Tour could last from a few months to eight years and was thus the preserve of the wealthy. The British were particularly lured to, and enchanted by, Italy; and they were drawn there to see at first hand monuments of ancient civilization such as the Colosseum in Rome, and wonders of nature, such as the volcanic eruptions of Vesuvius, near Naples. This module explores the origins and growth of the Grand Tour from the Renaissance to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. It seeks to demonstrate why the Grand Tour reached its apogee in the eighteenth century; the impact that the Tour had on individuals and groups through contact with continental art, music, literature, politics, religion and social customs; and how that personal impact led to a wider influence on British society and attitudes more generally. It also touches on concepts of nationhood, concerning what is was to be “British” and “European” – tensions which arguably still remain unresolved in Britain today. HIH378 - Revolutionary America, 1760 - 1791 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis This module explores the American Revolution, the formation of the United States, and imperial and colonial politics and society between 1760 and 1791. The first part examines events between the end of the French and Indian War in 1760 and the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791. The second analyses political and social ideas and structures throughout the period. The third explores particular people, places, events, and themes in greater detail. Department of History and Classics 19
Level 3 - Module Information HIH396 – From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and Society in Western Politicial Thought Year 3: Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination 1, Coursework 1 Synopsis This module offers a guide to the history of ideas on government and society which continue to influence political thought and action in the 21st century. The lectures will start by looking at the origins of democratic thinking in Athens, 5th Century BC, and will then give a brief account of medieval political thought and the impact of Christian-Muslim encounters. The main part of the course will deal with modern ideas on government as developed by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, the political authors of the Enlightenment and American Revolution, and Marx and Lenin. The final part will focus on the Italian and German national socialists' assault on the liberal state and Western democratic tradition. Students will have the opportunity to read and discuss a representative selection from the 'classics' of Western political thought and reflect on their contemporary political relevance. As will be shown, some of today's best-known early modern texts on the nature of state power were misinterpreted by contemporaries and brought into disrepute by fascist ideologues who claimed them in defence of dictatorship. HIH3019 - Renaissance Venice Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Essay and exam Synopsis Traditionally the Renaissance has been seen as marking the apogee of Venetian history, and in many ways it was. The stability of Venetian society and the durability of its constitution were the envy of other states. The city was an imperial capital, ruling empires in the east and on the Italian mainland. The Rialto was an international as well as a local commercial centre. The Venetian press was one of the most productive and innovative in Europe and Venetian painters also can to acquire an international reputation. The period also saw intensive building programmes in the city. But the standing of Venice was severely challenged by other powers in the period, as was her commercial role. Moreover, there were tensions within the ruling class, as well as among its subjects in Venice and its empires. HIH3033 – Weimar Germany Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination Synopsis This module examines the political, social, cultural and economic history of Germany from the First World War to the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933. Department of History and Classics 20
Level 3 - Module Information HIH3171 - Family, Sex and Intimacy in Early Modern England Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis Between 1550 and 1750 there was an enormous outpouring of writing on marriage, the family and intimate relations. More than a private institution, the household-family was a key social, economic and political unit and sexual intimacy was subject to surveillance and public regulation. This module explores in detail the changing nature of personal relationships in the early modern period and assesses what these relationships reveal about social, cultural and religious beliefs. After surveying historiographical debates about the family, sex and marriage in this period, the module will go on to examine a variety of themes which may include courtship, fertility, childbirth and family planning, relations between husbands and wives, parents and children and siblings, the economics of the household, marital breakdown, illicit sexuality, homosexuality and friendship. HIH3178 - European Empires in the East. A comparative analysis Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 2,500 word essay, 2-hour exam and group presentation Synopsis The course provides an opportunity to study the European expansion in the East during the early modern period. Starting with an analysis of European familiarization and encounters with the peoples of India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, China and Japan, the course shall investigate how Europeans traded, built up their presence in the East, exchanged knowledge and ideas, and on what terms. One of the engaging features of this period is that the interaction between European and Asian was fundamentally pre-hegemonic, before European imperialism in its classic sense as understood by historians today, so it was essentially more two-way or interactive. We shall strive to determine whether this reflects on European intentions, or merely mirrors the meagre resources available to them, and the difficulties of implanting colonial society. HIH3215 - Media and Society in the 1930s Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework and exam Synopsis This module examines the ways in which the 1930s have been represented in popular culture and the mass media, comparing and contrasting contemporaneous representations with reconstructions in the post war period. It examines a range of media forms including popular fiction, cinema, newsreels, television and the press. Department of History and Classics 21
Level 3 - Module Information HIH3301 - Welsh society in the later Middle Ages, 1267-1536 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: seminar multiple-choice quizzes, 2,250 word essay and 2-hour exam Synopsis This module offers an in-depth thematic look at the social institutions which underpinned Welsh society in the later Middle Ages, from Henry III's 1267 recognition of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's native Principality of Wales to Henry VIII's 1536 'Act of Union (of England and Wales)'. It introduces students to the rich opportunities and practical difficulties of studying a medieval society. Social institutions are explored in some depth, at several levels of society, and comparative methods are employed throughout to highlight the similarities and differences between Welsh and English systems of law, kinship and community organization. Lectures and seminars explore traditional features of Welsh society which survived conquest, as well as the impact of post-conquest English innovations. Students will be encouraged to see Welsh society in the broader context of medieval European societies, and take an interdisciplinary approach the study of Anglo-Welsh cultural exchange, drawing on social, historical and anthropological perspectives. HIH3318 Invention, Innovation and Technological Revolutions Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Examination Synopsis Why do people talk about technological ‘revolutions’? Is life really so different before and after such a revolution? For whom? Is technological change the major factor in historical change? Or is the impact more limited? To explore these questions, this course will focus on four key historical transitions commonly called ‘revolutions’: the secondary products revolution (the acquisition and use of products that are obtained from living animals, e.g. wool, milk), the engineering revolution (the development of infrastructure and construction by the Romans e.g. aqueducts, roads, concrete); the industrial revolution (what do we mean by that actually?), and the electrical revolution (power at the flick of a switch). These topics are studied through a mix of reading, illustrated lectures, class discussions, and short debates. HIH3319 History of Violence Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Group presentation, Essay, Examination Synopsis Violence has played a key role in European and world history. This module will explore how cultures of violence have developed from antiquity to modernity. Beginning with Ancient Greece and ending in the twentieth century, this module will chart the changing practice of violence. It will examine how attitudes towards the practice and representation of violence have changed over centuries. Students will explore different aspects of violence, including state sponsored and interpersonal forms. Topics will include warfare, ritual violence such as the dual, criminal violence and state violence, such as judicial torture and executions. A particular theme of the module will be the increasing state monopolization of violence. Students will be introduced to the theoretical literature on organized and individual violence and be challenged to draw comparisons from different epochs. The course questions whether, as has recently been argued, humanity is becoming less violent. Department of History and Classics 22
Level 3 - Module Information HIH3330 – Class and Community in the South Wales Coalfield in 1900 – 2000 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Essay 2,500 (50%) , Group presentation (50%). Synopsis Class, Community and Conflict explores the development and history of the South Wales coalfield between 1900 and 2000. During those two centuries South Wales was transformed by industrialization. Rapid population growth and urbanization created new communities to serve the demand for labour from the pits and metal works that sprung up across the region. The new society that emerged developed a vibrant and distinctive political and industrial culture centered on the community and the workplace. Reaching its height in the first decade of the twentieth century, this coalfield society was ravaged by the economic hardship of the interwar years and the de-industrialization of the later twentieth century. This module will explore the 'life-cycle' of South Wales, encompassing its industrial heyday to the decline of the later twentieth centuries. It examines the development of the politics and society of the coalfield by looking at such diverse topics as industrialization, party politics, urbanization and leisure. The South Wales coalfield will also be compared with other European coalfields to tease out the similarities and differences between industrial communities in Europe. The course is taught in parallel to a similar course in Germany and students will have the option of visiting Bochum in Germany at the end of the course. HIH3326 Britain Since 1945 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Coursework 1, Examination 1 Synopsis While Britain emerged from the Second World War as one of the victor powers, the conflict left a deep mark on the country. By the end of the war, the British government was virtually bankrupt, and in foreign affairs Whitehall faced Britain’s relegation into the second division of world powers within the emerging bi-polar world order of the Cold War. Despite the difficult economic situation, consecutive British governments pushed an ambitious programme for social reform at home and attempted to regain power in international relations through the acquisition of nuclear weapons. This third year option examines society, culture and politics in Britain since 1945. Through a variety of primary and secondary sources, we will be studying key events and developments in postwar Britain, in particular changes in the role of the state and the success or failure of social and economic policies, the Cold War and the wider international relationships – either European or transatlantic – within which Britain has pursued its interests, aspects of social change in the 1950s and 1960s (e.g. gender roles, postwar affluence and student protests), the impact of decolonization and immigration on postwar British society, the Irish question and devolution as well as Thatcherism. SHP353 - Hospitals in History c1700 - 1948 Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: coursework Synopsis This module examines the development of the hospital in Britain with particular reference to the emergence of voluntary and public infirmaries. Department of History and Classics 23
Level 3 - Module Information AM-335 - The American Civil War in History and Memory Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: 4000 word journal and 90 minute exam Synopsis This interdisciplinary module shall examine some of the key issues and incidents pertinent to the singular event in American history that continues, some 150 years after its momentous conclusion, to hold considerable appeal for scholars and the general public alike: namely, the American Civil War. The armies of the Union and the Confederacy, formidable political statesmen such as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, and the redoubtable military figures of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee shall be examined alongside other issues that are on the vanguard of recent research in Civil War studies. Through an examination of material from a wide variety of sources – soldiers’ diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, magazines, post-Civil War memoirs and reminiscences, novels, documentaries, and film – this course will showcase social, political, economic, racial, gender and military history in ways that shall encourage students to draw their own conclusions as to the true legacy of the conflict and the vast human cost of war. Moreover, a suitably broad range of secondary interpretations on the subject from leading Civil War scholars shall also be examined in lectures and seminars to highlight changing interpretations of the conflict in the years following Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. AM-337 - Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall: America in the 1960s Year 3 Undergraduate Credits: 20 Assessment: Essay and exam Synopsis This interdisciplinary, team-taught module offers students the opportunity to study the 1960s, widely regarded as one of the most complex, contradictory, and controversial decades in twentieth century American life, as reflected in the prevailing historical, political, literary and cultural climate. The decade began with high hopes for a more democratic United States under John F. Kennedy, with liberal triumphs and civil rights gains, yet ended in discord and disillusionment, as many Americans, shaken by urban unrest and assassinations, and divided by the escalation of the war in Vietnam, believed the fate of the nation’s institutions and ideology hung in the balance. Starting by analysing the consensus that existed in the 1950s, the module will contour America’s break with cultural conformity during the 1960s, examining such topics as the major domestic achievements of Kennedy’s New Frontier and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society; Cold War politics and the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Civil Rights movement from sit-ins to voting rights activism to Black Power; Vietnam and the anti-war and youth countercultural movements; liberalism and the revival of conservative partisanship; the roles of intellectuals and artists, and literary and cultural responses to the changes and challenges of the decade. Drawing on the central developments of the decade, and the competing uses to which 60s narratives have been put, this module will offer students the opportunity to study many hotly debated issues, critically engaging their nature and their significance, and making ample use of a fantastic variety of original sources and visual material, including works of history, literature, art, photography, media, popular music, and cinema. Department of History and Classics 24
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