古代历史与历史文学学士荣誉学士

课程模块Modules

• 年一Year one
• 年二Year two
• Year three

2 modules

• challenge and refine your ideas about what history is and why it matters
• develop effective learning strategies that help you track your progress and continually strengthen your skills
• What do we know (and not know) about the ancient world?
• How do ancient politics, society, culture and morality differ from our own?
• What evidence informs us about the ancient world? What are its limits and pitfalls?
• How far can we hope to know ‘how things really were’ in the ancient world?
• oral and written presentation
• teamwork
• 批判思维与创意分析古代证据critical thinking and creative analysis of ancient evidence
• assessing the effectiveness of arguments and their basis in potentially incomplete evidence
• the important and fundamental questions historians ask and the diverse methodological approaches they use
• how different theoretical understandings and sources shape historical research and interpretation

22 modules

• ancient literature, such as epic and drama
• historical texts
• 宗教语境religious contexts
• the material culture of the ancient world, such as statuary, paintings and sarcophagi
• sculpture
• vase-painting
• coins
• mosaics
• 建筑与城市结构architecture and urban structures
• 古代表演语境与受众ancient performance-contexts and audiences
• the workings of genres
• analysis of rhetoric and literary style
• representations of gender and sexuality
• 学习古典接受study of classical reception
• how to compare translations
• the religious and cultural movements that shaped beliefs, identities and ways of life
• key questions around race, gender and minority experiences in medieval societies
• the rise of new empires and their global consequences
• religious conflict and the ways it redrew political and cultural boundaries
• warfare and its impact on rulers, elites and ordinary people
• social and economic change - and how it shaped daily life
• the lived experiences of marginalised groups often left out of traditional narratives
• new ideas and game-changing technologies that transformed how people lived, worked and communicated
• political upheaval, war and revolution, and their lasting impact on nations and societies
• the rise of powerful social movements campaigning for rights, equality and justice
• major economic changes and shifting cultural values in an increasingly industrial and consumer society
• Explore primary evidence from Greek literary and material culture
• Consider the relationship between ancient Greece and the modern world
• discover coinciding developments in Roman literary and artistic culture
• consider the reception of ancient Rome in modern western culture
• see how your history degree fits together by making connections across topics, periods, and approaches
• build essential academic skills that will support you throughout your degree and beyond
• how your understanding of history has evolved from school or college to university-level study
• why history matters today and how it shapes contemporary debates, ideas and issues
• Explore topics such as privacy, surveillance, power and representation
• Learn how modern technology can replicate historical biases and ignore contemporary struggles
• Gain the background and context to contemporary issues on data and society
• Question the limits we place on technology in our world
• Explore how the arts and humanities shape, direct and protect against the way data is used
• Develop your skills and apply them to case studies
• See how your work can highlight issues and solve problems
• Understand how data analysis allows us to create narratives that inspire and drive change
• Virtual reality renditions of historical photographs
• 沉浸式博物馆体验Immersive museum experiences
• Audio installations to share stories about migration and sustainability
• Interactive events to inspire young people about languages and cultures past and present
• The variety of human responses to sickness
• How ideas about illness are expressed across the world
• Drug resistant bacteria and mutations of viruses
• Examine Western culture’s way of defining the ‘environment’ and our relationship with nature
• Look at the diverse ways in which different cultures imagine nature
• Learn about debates around the Anthropocene, the era of humanity’s marked impact on the environment
• Examine the controversies and disputes that have emerged about our relationship with nature
• Causality
• 统计学Statistics
• Bias
• 内容分析Content analysis
• 语言Language

47 modules

• How did monarchs and local elites seek to justify their authority in this period?
• To what extent were ideas of hierarchy and obedience queried or accepted?
• What impact did such ideas have on daily life?
• government ideology
• popular beliefs and literacy
• the persecution and toleration of religious minorities
• the politics of the parish
• attitudes towards birth, marriage and death
• species history and the rewilding debate
• the rise of environmental protection groups
• the role of the state in environmental protection
• the history of pollution and pesticide use
• the National Park movement
• the Nature Reserve and the rise of outdoor leisure and recreation
• the emergence of modern environmentalism and campaigning
• the role of wildlife television and natural history film-making
• the nature of fascist ideology
• 使用暴力the use of violence
• fascism and masculinity and femininity
• the rise of trade relations with India
• the growth of territorial rule through war and negotiation with Indian rulers
• resistance to imperial rule through mutiny
• the debate over sati (widow immolation)
• changing gender roles and expectations
• the experience and impact of rationing, bombing, conscription, voluntary service and direction by central government
• historiographical debates about whether Britain was united against a common enemy
• propaganda, mass communication and the management of information
• 后战争重建城市post-war reconstruction of cities
• reactions to the Holocaust, atomic weaponry, returning service personnel, returning Prisoners of War
• post-war austerity
• representations of the period and the construction of memory
• The Victorians, An Overview
• Religion: Sin and Redemption
• 贫困Poverty
• 城市Cities
• 环境卫生Sanitation
• 性学Sexuality
• Consumerism and the Mass Market
• Entertainment
• 进化Evolution
• Created a museum exhibition
• Reconstructed an ancient artefact
• Designed a new public engagement strategy for a historic site
• Developed a board game
• Created a marketing campaign
• Flavian personal poetry (Martial and Statius)
• The emperor Claudius (Suetonius and Tacitus)
• The Cupid and Psyche story from Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses
• Ethnicity and Empire in Latin Epic (Virgil and Silius Italicus)
• The Power of Love (Ovid and Propertius)
• Tragedy (Euripides’ Antigone)
• Selections from Homer’s Iliad
• Longus’ novel Daphnis and Chloe
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony
• Paradoxography (a range of texts exploring the weird and marvellous)
• constitutional change
• the institution of slavery
• the status and role of women and the family
• 经济生命economic life
• 宗教religion
• symposia
• drama and mime
• 修辞学rhetoric
• public displays of wealth and status
• or athletic and gladiatorial spectacles
• mythology and religion
• monumentality
• memory and topography
• 冲突与外交conflict and diplomacy
• the body and the senses
• 经济与技术economy and technology
• trade and colonisation
• the structure of society
• constructions of gender and culture
• family life and marriage
• 城市世界the urban world
• consumerism and culture
• the press and the reading public
• 犯罪crime
• social protest & the rise of radical politics
• Women and Empire: Debates and Perspectives
• Turning Pioneers into Settlers: Constructing the Female Emigran
• Madam and Memsahib: The Women of the Raj
• Saving Souls: Female Missionaries
• Deviance and Desire: Colonial Prostitution
• The Politics of Pots and Pans: Domesticity and Colonialism
• Colonising the Body: Health, Hygiene and Nurses
• Education and Improvement: Colonial Classrooms
• Struggles within THE struggles: Women and Decolonisation
• Imperial Aftershock: Whiteness at the end of Empire
• ‘Haussmannisation’ as a socio-economic process and the contested terrain of the boulevard
• 发展制图测绘与统计学the development of mapping, surveying and statistics
• the bourgeois home as a site of identity and the meanings of interior design
• the department store and other contested sites of consumer culture
• street-harassment and the ‘problem’ of the urban woman
• slum literature as a source of anxiety and control
• museum culture, exhibitions and the ordering of imperial knowledge
• 种族race
• sex与性别sex and gender
• 政治经济political economy
• 城市空间urban space
• 历史创意the history of ideas
• populism
• extremism and the far right
• 媒体media
• transnationalism
• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills
• Discuss how activism and advocacy can become part of academic work
• 艺术art
• 电影film
• 文学literature
• archive materials and documents
• 音乐与表演music and performance

Arts Work Placement Module (Engaged Arts)

• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 媒体media
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills

模块1 module

• Culture, Society and Politics in 20th-Century Russia
• The British Civil Wars c.1639-1652
• Samurai Revolution: Reinventing Japan, 1853-1878
• Faith and Fire: Popular Religion in Late Medieval England
• The Reign of Richard II
• British Culture in the Age of Mass Production, 1920-1950
• Monsters, Animals and the Boundary of the Human in European Imperial Thought, 1700-1850
• Life During Wartime: Crisis, Decline and Transformation in 1970s America
• Overseas Exploration, European Diplomacy, and the Rise of Tudor England
• The African Atlantic and the British Slave Trade c. 1600-1897
• A Green and (un) Pleasant Land? Society, Culture and the Evolution of the British Countryside
• 欧洲政治与社会European Politics and Society, 1848-1914
• 'The Past That Won't Go Away': The Civil War and the Memory of Wars in Spain
• From Revelation to ISIS: Apocalyptic Thought from the 1st to 21st Century
• The Reimagining of the Capital 1600-1720: The Making of Modern London

31 modules

• Three Faces of Eve: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Women in Medieval Iberia
• Empire, Gender and Selfhood: Transgender History in Global Context
• Serfdom to Stalin: Rural Life in Russian Empire and Soviet Union
• Voices from North Africa: Resistance, Decolonisation and State-Building
• Windrush and the (re)Making of a Nation: Myth and Memory
• the formation, nature and fall of palace states
• cultural interactions of the Minoans and Mycenaeans overseas
• the production, trade and consumption of various material goods
• 导论与发展管理与早期写作the introduction and development of administration and early writing
• archaeologies of cult and death
• the eruption of Thera/Santorini and its effect
• the rise of the Mycenaean culture
• social and economic structures as documented in Linear B tablets
• a journal-style article
• 学位论文a dissertation
• a substantial conference presentation
• a report on practical research activity such as digitisation
• the causes, consequences and lasting memories of wars through different lenses
• individual and collective lived experiences of war
• societal rebuilding and remembrance
• The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
• Alternatives to War in the Twentieth Century
• Italy and the Second World War
• Federation to Liberation: Zimbabwe 1953-1980
• 国际关系中学东与北方非洲The International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa
• Remembering the Past in Late Medieval England
• Martin Luther and the Origins of Protestantism
• Pacifism in the Twentieth Century
• Atrocity and Humanitarianism in Twentieth Century Europe
• The Politics of Thatcherism, 1975-1992
• Politics, Culture and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Rome, c. 1417- c .1721
• The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs for Pleasure and Pain in the History of Medicine
• Britain on Film
• Culture and Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
• Soviet Cultural History
• Encounters and Exchanges in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds, 1450-1700
• The Venetian Republic c. 1450-1575
• Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation in the British Empire
• 法国与帝国c.France and its Empire(s), c. 1815-1914
• No Time to Rest: Work, Sleep and Time in Colonial India and the British Empire
• the forces that cause societies to break from the past and envision new futures
• the paradoxes of crisis moments, where despair can give way to hope and reconstruction
• how established orders, beliefs, and hierarchies crumble under pressure, making room for new possibilities
• ancient physiological theories including the theory of ‘four humours’ and methodism
• development of knowledge about anatomy and diet
• theories about psychology
• theories about sexual differentiation
• problem-based medical education
• ancient pharmaceuticals and surgery
• 诊断技术diagnostic techniques
• professionalisation
• 患者体验patient experiences
• religious sanctuaries as healing centres
• Richard II, William Shakespeare and the Revolution of 1399
• The Image of the Male Witch in Early Modern Iceland
• Lord Salisbury and the Mediterranean Agreements: Revisiting Anglo-German Relations, 1886-1896
• Interwar British Fascist Movements and Race, 1922-1940
• Visions of Loathing and Desire: Representations of Masculinity in Late Soviet Posters
• Flavian personal poetry (Martial and Statius)
• The emperor Claudius (Suetonius and Tacitus)
• The Cupid and Psyche story from Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses
• Ethnicity and Empire in Latin Epic (Virgil and Silius Italicus)
• The Power of Love (Ovid and Propertius)
• Tragedy (Euripides’ Antigone)
• Selections from Homer’s Iliad
• Longus’ novel Daphnis and Chloe
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony
• Paradoxography (a range of texts exploring the weird and marvellous)
• improve reading fluency in your chosen language
• gain deeper insights and appreciation of the language and its literature
• Greek literary evidence and the diverse representations of Persians and the Persian Empire presented in it
• non-Greek evidence for the Persian Empire, including cuneiform writings, inscriptions and visual evidence
• the political framework of the later-Roman Empire
• the textual and archaeological evidence for Britain’s society and economy
• the barbarian peoples who threatened and interacted with it
• the question of how it ended up leaving the Roman Empire