Current courses : History : University of Sussex

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Level 1 courses

Title (follow link for details)	Code	Terms taught	Quick links
Historical Controversy	V1272	autumn term	[ V1272 Historical Controversy (Darwinian Revolution) course outline 2009-10 ] [ V1272 Historical Controversy (Goldhagen) course outline 2009-10 ] [ V1272 Historical Controversy (Religion and Capitalism) course outline 2009-10 ]
The Early Modern World	V1227	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1227 (09/10) ]
The History of Now	V1367	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1367 (09/10) ]
The Making of the Modern World	V1228	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1228 (09/10) ] [ V1228 Making of the Modern World course document 2009-10 ]

Level 2 courses

Title (follow link for details)	Code	Terms taught	Quick links
History Short Period: African History Since 1880	V1320	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1320 (09/10) ] [ V1320 Africa Since 1880 reading list 2009-10 ]
History Short Period: Britain in the 20th Century	V1321	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1321 (09/10) ] [ V1321 Britain in the Twentieth Century course handbook 2009-10 ]
History Short Period: Europe in the 20th Century	V1319	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1319 (09/10) ] [ V1319 Europe in the 20th Century reading list 2009-10 ]
Time and Place: 1642: English Civil War	V1323	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1323 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1688: The Glorious Revolution	V1324	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1324 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1789: The Fall of Bastille	V1325	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1325 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1838: The Coronation of Queen Victoria	V1368	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1368 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1916: The Somme	V1327	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1327 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1929: The Weimar Republic	V1328	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1328 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1930: Indian Civil Disobedience	V1329	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1329 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1938: Kristallnacht	V1330	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1330 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1942: Holocaust	V1331	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1331 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1963: Sexual Revolution in Britain	V1332	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1332 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1984: Thatcher's Britain	V1333	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1333 (09/10) ]
Time and Place: 1994: The New South Africa	V1334	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1334 (09/10) ]

Level 3 courses

Title (follow link for details)	Code	Terms taught	Quick links
Age and History	V1294	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1294 (09/10) ] [ V1294 Age and History course outline 2009-10 ]
Britain and the Second World War	V1201	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1201 (09/10) ]
Consumption and History	V1280	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1280 (09/10) ]
Democracy and War	V1310	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1310 (09/10) ]
Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain	V1230	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1230 (09/10) ]
History Special Dissertation	V1189	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1189 (09/10) ] [ History Special Dissertation handbook 2009-10 ]
Imagining the Future: Scientific Daydreams and Nightmares	V1313	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1313 (09/10) ]
May 1968: Impacts, Interpretations, Afterlives	V1301	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1301 (09/10) ]
Nature and History	V1295	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1295 (09/10) ]
Revolution and History	V1285	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1285 (09/10) ]
Science and History	V1316	autumn term	[ Study Direct: V1316 (09/10) ] [ V1316 Science and History reading list 2009-10 ]
South Africa's Segregationist Century	V1302	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1302 (09/10) ]
The Cold War: Politics and Culture	V1231	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1231 (09/10) ] [ V1231 Cold War course document 2009-10 ] [ V1231 Cold War primary sources ]
The History of Human Rights	V1298	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1298 (09/10) ]
The Social History of Women 1870-1920	V1279	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1279 (09/10) ]
The Spanish Civil War	V1309	spring and summer terms	[ Study Direct: V1309 (09/10) ]

Master level courses

Title (follow link for details)	Code	Terms taught	Quick links
20th Century Germany: historiographical problems and perspectives	836V1	spring term	[ 836V1 20th Century Germany course document 2009-10 ]
Conflict in France from the Paris Commune to the 1960's	815V1	spring term	[ Study Direct: 815V1 (09/10) ] [ 815V1 Conflict in France course document 2009-10 ]
Dissertation	822V1	summer term
Dissertation	845V1	summer term
Dissertation	876V1	summer term
Dissertation	505V3	summer term
Dissertation	899V1	summer term
Empire, Nation, State in the 20th Century	834V1	autumn term
Empire, Nation, State in the 20th Century	834V1B	spring term	[ 834V1B Empire Nation State course document 2009-10 ]
Globalisation and European Representations of Africa and India	812AF	autumn term	[ Study Direct: 812AF (09/10) ]
Historical Methods and Historiography	868V1	autumn term	[ Study Direct: 868V1 (09/10) ]
Historical Skills and Methods	833V1	autumn term	[ Study Direct: 833V1 (09/10) ] [ 833V1 Historical Skills and Methods course document 2009-10 ]
Intellectual History 1: Philosophical Ideas	847V1A	autumn term	[ 847V1A IH Philosophical Ideas 2009-10 ]
Intellectual History 2: Political Ideas	848V1B	spring term	[ 848V1B Intellectual History course document 2009-10 ]
Intellectual History 3: Scientific Ideas	849V1A	autumn term
Intellectual History 3: Scientific Ideas	849V1B	spring term
Jews, Power and Intellectual History	830V1	autumn term
Literature, Politics and Religion in Europe	825V1	autumn term
Making and Unmaking Britain 1600-1800	853V1A	autumn term	[ 853V1A Making and Unmaking Britain 2009-10 ]
Modern European Jewish History and Cultures	839V8	autumn term	[ MA in Modern European Jewish History Culture and Thought ]
Modern European Jewish History, Culture and Dissertation	842V8	summer term
Power and Culture in Early Modern France	856V1B	spring term	[ 856V1B Power and Culture in Early Modern France course document 2009-10 ]
Reading, Writing, Text	898V1	spring term	[ Study Direct: 898V1 (09/10) ]
Skills and Methods in Local and Regional History 1520-1780	500V3	autumn term
Society and Culture in the South East 1520-1780	501V3	autumn term
The Falklands War	854V1B	spring term	[ Study Direct: 854V1B (09/10) ] [ 854V1B The Falklands War course document 2009-10 ]
The Historiography of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought	826V1	autumn term
The Socio-Cultural History of Rural England 1890-1990	837V1	spring term
The Spanish Civil War	889V1	spring term
The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History	846V1A	autumn term	[ 846V1A Theory and Practice of Intellectual History handbook 2009-10 ]
Video Documentary in Contemporary History	860V1	spring term	[ Study Direct: 860V1 (09/10) ] [ 860V1 Video Documentary course document 2009-10 ]
War, Gender and British Society, 1914-1945	840V1A	autumn term	[ 840V1A War, Gender and British Society course document 2009-10 ]
Women's Lives, Life Histories & Social Changes	835V1	autumn term

The following courses have changes approved for the years as indicated. Please see Sussex Direct for further information.

Level 3 courses

Title (follow link for details)	Code	Terms taught
Effective from October 2010
Britain and the Second World War	V1346	autumn, spring and summer terms
Democracy and War	V1347	autumn, spring and summer terms
Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain	V1348	autumn, spring and summer terms
Family Life: 1500-1800	V1349	autumn, spring and summer terms
History Special Dissertation	V1363	autumn, spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: Democracy and Liberalism in France 1789-2009	V1366	spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: Empires and Images: Britain, Africa and India	V1341	spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: Fascisms	V1342	spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: Race and Human Difference	V1343	spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: The Enlightenment	V1345	spring and summer terms
History Thematic Course: The Sixties	V1344	spring and summer terms
Imagining the Future: Scientific Daydreams and Nightmares	V1350	autumn, spring and summer terms
May 1968: Impacts, Interpretations, Afterlives	V1351	autumn, spring and summer terms
Modernism	V1352	autumn, spring and summer terms
Nationalism, Decolonisation and the Emerging State in India 1937-1950	V1353	autumn, spring and summer terms
Past and Present: Age and History	V1335	autumn term
Past and Present: Nature and History	V1336	autumn term
Past and Present: Religion and History in Modern West-Europe	V1339	autumn term
Past and Present: Revolution and History	V1337	autumn term
Past and Present: Science and History	V1338	autumn term
Sexual Outlaws in Post-war Britain: 1945-1985	V1354	autumn, spring and summer terms
South Africa's Segregationist Century	V1355	autumn, spring and summer terms
The Cold War: Politics and Culture	V1356	autumn, spring and summer terms
The Environment, Human Activity, and the End of the World	V1357	autumn, spring and summer terms
The History of Human Rights	V1358	autumn, spring and summer terms
The Social History of Women 1870-1920	V1359	autumn, spring and summer terms
The Spanish Civil War	V1362	autumn, spring and summer terms
The World of the French Revolution	V1360	autumn, spring and summer terms