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Degree Programme Table: Economic History (MA Hons) (UTECNHI)

Jump to: Year 4

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Notes:
Your attendance will be confirmed at your first cohort meeting of the semester in week 1. Details of these meetings will be sent to you by email. You are expected to attend cohort meetings, and should let your Student Adviser know if you must be absent.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Note that the topic for HIST10309 History Dissertation must be in Economic History.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits

Course options

Economic History Special Subjects and Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to 1929
ECSH10109 40 credits
Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union and What Came Next, 1970-2020
HIST10517 20 credits
Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800
HIST10529 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Special Subjects and Electives in Economic History and/or Social History

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600 to 1929
ECSH10109 40 credits
The Archival Turn and the Fashioning of Enlightenment, c.1690-1800
HIST10473 40 credits
Adolescence in Medieval Europe
HIST10485 20 credits
'Sexperts' and Scientific Publics in the Global Twentieth Century
HIST10486 40 credits
Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality
HIST10492 20 credits
Britons at War: The Construction of Identities in the Two World Wars
HIST10507 40 credits
Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union and What Came Next, 1970-2020
HIST10517 20 credits
Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800
HIST10529 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

Economics Level 10 courses

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Economics Level 10 courses
Notes:
Please note that places on the courses are subject to availability and timetabling. Popular courses may fill up quickly.
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