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Bachelor of Arts (International Honours) History


BA (International Honours) History: First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 40 credits from Module List: ME1000 - ME2999, MH1000 - MH2999, MO1000 - MO2999 AND
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20
ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from 1000-level language module options (20cr per semester in same language) AND
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20
AR1801 Intensive Arabic 1 12
AR1802 Intensive Arabic 2 12
CN1011 Beginners Chinese Language 1 20
CN1012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 1 20
CN1021 Beginners Chinese Language 2 20
CN1022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 2 20
CN1802 A Century of Chinese Cultural Innovation 12
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
RU1001 Elementary Russian Language 1 20
RU1002 Elementary Russian Language 2 20
RU1005 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1 20
RU1006 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2 20
SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
PO1001 Studying at St Andrews and William & Mary (WaMStA studies) 5 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 125 credits in the academic year

Across the four years of the degree:
- At least two modules must be completed in American History.
- At least two modules must be completed in British and/or European History.
- At least two modules must be completed in Non-Western History.
BA (International Honours) History: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: HI2001, ME2000 - ME2999, MH2000 - MH2999, MO2000 - MO2999 AND
HI2001 History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20
ME2003 Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20
ME2901 Introduction to Early Medieval Europe, 400-1000 20
MH2002 Introduction to Middle Eastern History 20
MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1700 - 2000) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
PO2001 Introduction to St Andrews 5 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 125 credits in the academic year

Across the four years of the degree:
- At least two modules must be completed in American History.
- At least two modules must be completed in British and/or European History.
- At least two modules must be completed in Non-Western History.

Not more than 60 credits must be gained from ME-, MO-, or HI-coded 2000-level modules.
Selection must include HI2001 unless HIST301 has already been passed.
If two consecutive modules of foreign language study have NOT already been taken, then selection should include these (as per list in first year requirements box), plus any remaining credits to meet breadth requirements.
Students are encouraged to continue in their chosen language if they wish.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

BA (International Honours) History: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 120 credits from Module List: ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Between Britain and Ireland: Iona and the World in the Long Seventh Century 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3810 Monastic Scotland: History and Archaeology 16
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Up to 30 credits may be taken in the chosen language, in progression from the previous level studied.

Across the four years of the degree:
- At least two modules must be completed in American History.
- At least two modules must be completed in British and/or European History.
- At least two modules must be completed in Non-Western History.
BA (International Honours) History: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: HI4997, HI4998, HI4999
HI4999 Honours Dissertation in History 30
HI4997 Recording the Past 30
HI4998 Honours Project in History 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4000 - ME4999, MO4000 - MO4999
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
ME4752 Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4757 Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
ME4758 Gendered Lives: Men and Women in the Later Middle Ages 60
ME4806 The Age of Charlemagne c. 750 - 830 60
ME4807 The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270) 60
ME4813 The Merovingian World 60
ME4815 France from Philip Augustus to Philip the Fair, c.1180-1315 60
ME4816 The Western Just War Tradition: Ethics, Laws, and Practices of War from Antiquity to the Renaissance 60
ME4852 From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century 60
ME4855 Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century 60
ME4856 From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire 60
ME4857 The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World 60
MO4806 Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
MO4807 Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
MO4808 Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
MO4810 Approaches to the American Century 60
MO4850 Britain and Iran in the Modern Era 60
MO4852 Experiencing the Past in the Middle East 60
MO4853 Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century 60
MO4854 Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State 60
MO4855 Law and Society in Scotland and its Empire, 1707-1914 60
MO4856 The Iranian Revolution and the Genesis of the Islamic Republic, 1977-1981 60
MO4903 Blood, Glory, Judgement: Early Modern Catholicism 60
MO4904 Madness and its Social Milieu in Britain (1560 - 1820) 60
MO4912 French Absolutism: Richelieu to Louis XIV 60
MO4932 Russians Making History (1755 - 2000) 60
MO4936 Bismarck: Biography - Politics - Mythology 60
MO4937 Charles Darwin and the Politics of Progress 60
MO4939 Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1936 - 1959 60
MO4949 Modern India: From Empire to Republic (1917 - 1950) 60
MO4951 Food for Midas: The Global History of Money 60
MO4952 The Kennedy Years 60
MO4959 British Cinema History (1920 - 1960) 60
MO4962 France and Africa in the Twentieth Century: Colonialism, Anti-colonialism, Post-colonialism 60
MO4965 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Twentieth-Century Europe 60
MO4967 Elizabethan England: Politics, Religion, and Personalities (1558 - 1603) 60
MO4968 Curiosity, Empire and Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 60
MO4970 Revolutions and Empires (1776 - 1848) 60
MO4971 From City to Home: Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia 60
MO4972 Understanding Resistance and Protest in Modern India (c.19th - 21st centuries) 60
MO4973 Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place 60
MO4974 The British Town in the Long Eighteenth Century 60
MO4975 Print, Progress and Public opinion. Towards a New History of Print Culture in Early Modern Europe 60
MO4977 India in Global Political and Social Thought: The Long Nineteenth Century 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: ME3000 - ME3999, MO3000 - MO3999
ME3019 Early English Society c.600-850 30
ME3020 The Chastising Church: Excommunication, Public Penance and Interdict in the High Middle Ages 30
ME3105 Archaeological Methods 30
ME3106 The History and Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism 30
ME3142 The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3162 The Medieval Castle 30
ME3163 The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople 30
ME3206 Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages 30
ME3214 Italian City States: from Communes to Signorie c. 1000- c. 1350 30
ME3223 The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c.750 - 900 30
ME3231 Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions 400 - 1200 30
ME3232 Queens and Queenship in Early Medieval Europe 30
ME3237 Legal Cultures in Late Antiquity 30
ME3238 Holy Lives in Late Antiquity 30
ME3240 Pandemic, Medicine and Society in the Early Middle Ages 30
ME3241 Sex and Gender in Medieval Europe 30
ME3242 'In a Dark Wood Wandering': War, Plague, and Society in Valois France, 1328-1422 30
ME3243 Orkneyinga saga: Text and Context in the Medieval North Atlantic 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Between Britain and Ireland: Iona and the World in the Long Seventh Century 30
ME3309 Medieval St Andrews 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
ME3314 Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
ME3407 Courtroom Dramas: Literature, Law and Lordship 30
ME3425 The Age of Revolt (1250 - 1450) 30
ME3427 Nature and the Occult in the Late Middle Ages 30
ME3428 Death and the Afterlife in Later Medieval Europe 30
ME3430 The Papal Monarchy: Popes, emperors and kings in the high middle ages 30
ME3431 Senses and Feelings in the Later Middle Ages 30
ME3432 The Devil's Brood: Power and Authority in High Medieval England 30
ME3433 The Medieval Landscape and Environment 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 30
ME3602 The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives 30
ME3608 Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750 30
ME3611 The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565 30
ME3612 Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century 30
ME3613 Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200) 30
ME3616 Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shiæism in the Medieval Muslim World 30
ME3617 The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate 30
ME3810 Monastic Scotland: History and Archaeology 16
MO3005 The Early Reformation in Europe (1517 - 1555) 30
MO3027 Women and Men in Europe (1500 - 1800) 30
MO3029 The Northern Renaissance 30
MO3033 Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Period 30
MO3038 War and the State in the Era of the Military Revolution (1550 - 1730) 30
MO3040 From Cradle To Grave: Living and Dying in Early Modern England (c.1500 - c.1800) 30
MO3041 Culture and Mentalities in Early Modern England (c. 1500 - 1800) 30
MO3043 Early Modern Rome (1300 - 1667) 30
MO3044 Topics in Renaissance Venice 30
MO3047 The Tudors: Power and Piety in Sixteenth-Century England 30
MO3048 Witches and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe 30
MO3051 Rethinking the English Reformations 30
MO3052 The Library, a Fragile History 30
MO3053 The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
MO3054 Walking Early Modern Europe 30
MO3055 The History of History in East Asia 30
MO3056 The Dutch Golden Age: Power, Culture and Society in the Seventeenth Century 30
MO3057 The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
MO3065 Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3080 Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722) 30
MO3081 The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700 30
MO3110 Slavery and Capitalism in the United States 30
MO3113 Stuart Rule and Revolution (1603 - 1689) 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
MO3163 Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3214 The Decline and Fall of the French Old Regime (1715-1789) 30
MO3217 Travel Cultures in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30
MO3220 The Enlightenment and the World 30
MO3223 Early colonial South Asia (c. 1700 - 1857) 30
MO3224 Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean World 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3264 Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707– c.1843 30
MO3280 Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords) 30
MO3301 Holocaust and Denial in Europe 30
MO3302 Imperial Russia 1815 - 1917 30
MO3314 History of Environmentalism: The Politics of Nature in the Western World (c. 1800 to Present) 30
MO3318 1848: Revolutionary Age 30
MO3319 Media and Politics in Britain, 1850-1939 30
MO3320 Imperialism and Nationalism: The British Empire in India 1857 - 1947 30
MO3321 Russia - Real and Imagined: Ideas, Identity, and Culture (1800 - 2000) 30
MO3328 Making Italians: Region, Nation and Empire in Italy from Unification to Fascism 30
MO3329 The Kaiser: Aspects of Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) 30
MO3331 The Victorians: Religion and Respectability 30
MO3334 Nature and Society in Victorian Britain 30
MO3335 The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath (1873 - 1952) 30
MO3336 Mediterranean Colonialism: Colonisers and Colonised in France, Spain, Italy and North Africa 1890s - 1950s 30
MO3337 China's Revolutions (1850 - 1989) 30
MO3338 Disease and the Environment (c. 1500 - 2000) 30
MO3345 Print Culture in Britain (1750 - 1900) 30
MO3346 Politics, Culture and Society in the French Revolution (1789-1815) 30
MO3349 The American Metropolis 30
MO3350 The American Constitution: Past and Present 30
MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational and Global History in the Late Modern World 30
MO3352 Migrant South Asia (c. 17th-20th centuries) 30
MO3353 The Rise of the Nation State in Central Europe (1810 - 1923) 30
MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s - 1990s 30
MO3356 Making Economic History Count: Economic Analysis from a Historical Perspective 30
MO3357 From Radicalism to Labour: Popular Politics in Scotland, 1707-1914 30
MO3358 Marxism and History in Britain, 1880-1990 30
MO3359 The United States in the Cold War and the Cold War in the United States 30
MO3365 Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3366 Technology and Society since 1750 30
MO3367 A Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century 30
MO3385 Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution 30
MO3388 The Asian Economic Miracle: Industrialization and Globalization 30
MO3389 Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s) 30
MO3390 The Late Ottoman Empire 1700–1922 30
MO3391 Documentary Film and History 30
MO3392 Scotland and the Pacific World, 1788–1914 30
MO3406 The Soviet Union 30
MO3410 The Third Reich: History and Historiography 30
MO3422 The United States in Depression and War (1929 - 1945) 30
MO3423 Dictatorship in Practice: Everyday Life in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and the Stalinist Soviet Union 30
MO3424 De-colonising Asia (c. 1914 - 1975) 30
MO3425 Stalinism, Nazism and Central Europe (1912 - 1941) 30
MO3426 War and the French Empire, 1940-1945 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3502 War and Welfare: Britain 1939 - 1951 30
MO3516 Popular Culture, Nation and Society: Leisure in Britain 1880 - 1960 30
MO3520 History, Memory and Identity in Postwar Western Europe (1945 - 2005) 30
MO3523 Postcolonial Europe: empire and its legacies in Western Europe since 1945 30
MO3524 Popular Music, Culture and Society: The United States and Britain, 1955-1980 30
MO3525 Global Intellectual History: Theories and Methodologies 30
MO3581 From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century 30
MO3583 From Allied Invasion to Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Up to 30 credits may be taken in the chosen language, in progression from the previous level studied, in place of the 30 credits from module list: ME3000-3999, MO3000-3999 option HI4997 and HI4999 require permission from an Honours Adviser.

Across the 4 Years:
- At least two modules must be completed in American History.
- At least two modules must be completed in British and/or European History.
- At least two modules must be completed in Non-Western History.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).