History | Visiting Students

Visiting students are welcome to take history modules at first, second and third year level. These are examples of the modules which history makes available in customised, ten-credit versions for one-term visitors.

First Year Modules

• The Atlantic and the making of the Modern World
• Crime, vice and underworlds: historical perspectives
• Introduction to American studies
• Nations and Empires: the Making of Modern Europe, 1750 to the present
• Wars and Warfare in Modern Europe: an introduction
• War, reform and identities: introduction to early modern Europe

See details of these modules.

Second Year Modules

• The Ending of Atlantic Slavery
• Violence in America
• Women in modern Britain
• Minorities in Modern Europe: Jews, Muslims and European Society
• The problem of poverty, c. 1700-1929
• Science, magic and discovery in early modern Europe
• The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union, 1917-53

See details of these modules.

Third Year Modules

• Witchcraft and deviance in early modern societies
• Unreasonable Belief? Fundamentalism in Britain and the USA
• Wales, c.1860-1914: culture, society and popular politics
• The First World War, Trauma and Memory in Europe, 1914-1939
• Espionage and oppression in the Cold War world, 1945-1990
• America in the Sixties
• Israel, Palestine and the Making of the Modern Middle East

See details of these modules.

Who to contact

Dr Fiona Reid is history’s ERASMUS/exchange co-ordinator.
Exchange students and their advisors are invited to contact Fiona on freid1@glam.ac.uk, with any queries relating to history.