Program structure
Year 1
In your first year, you will take a number of compulsory modules, and two 15 credit modules offered by the Department of History.
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Module title
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Credits
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Global Connections: the violence and exchanges that shaped the modern world
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30 credits
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Historical Controversies
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30 credits
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Reading and Writing History
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15 Credits
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Historical Perspectives
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15 credits
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Year 2
In your second year, you will choose 30 credits of modules from the list below.
You will also select 90 credits of year 2 modules approved annually by the Department of History, up to 30 credits of which this may be a related studies module offered by another Goldsmiths Department. Up to 30 credits can be a University of London intercollegiate Group II module.
| Module title |
Credits |
| A History of Resistance in the Middle East |
30 Credits |
| Modern Revolutions in Comparative Perspective |
30 credits |
| The Central Powers in the First World War, 1914-18 |
30 credits |
| Empires in Comparative Perspective: Imperium Romanum to Pax Americana |
30 credits |
| Minorities in East-Central Europe: Coexistence, Integration and Annihilation, c.1870-1950 |
30 credits |
| Modern South Asia: Body, Society, Empire and Nation c.1600-1947 |
30 credits |
| Black and British: A Long and Varied History |
30 Credits |
| The Past on the Move:Migrations and Diasporas of South-East Europe from Late Antiquity until the Modern Era |
30 Credits |
| Health, Healing and Illness in Africa |
| Mediterranean Encounters: Venice and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1797 |
30 credits |
| Utopian Visions: The Soviet Experience through the Arts |
30 credits |
| The USA in the Era of the Vietnam War, 1954-75 |
30 Credits |
| Bodies and Drugs: A Global History of Medicine |
30 credits |
| or |
| Global History of Medicine |
15 Credits |
| History of Asian Medicine: From Manuscripts to YouTube |
15 credits |
| Early Modern European Philosophy |
15 credits |
| Imagining Africa: Ideology, Identity and Text in Africa and the Diaspora |
15 credits |
| Latin American Revolutions 1945-1990 |
15 Credits |
| Global History of Buddhism |
15 credits |
| Black British Activism & Citizenship in Transnational Perspective |
15 Credits |
| The Vietnam War and US Presidential Politics, 1954-75 |
15 credits |
Year 3
In your third year, you will take one of the following 30 credit Special Subjects, or a University of London Intercollegiate Group III module. You will complete a 30 credit dissertation alongside your chosen Special Subject.
You will also choose 60 credits of option modules from a list approved annually by the Department of History.
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Module title
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Credits
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Sex and the African City
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30 credits
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Mughals, Munshi and Mistresses: Society and Rule in Early Colonial India
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30 credits
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Healing, Magic and Mindfulness on the Silk Roads
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30 credits
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