Single Honours History

Is this course for me?
The single honors degree in history is designed for those who wish to study an extensive history programme.
Course Structure
The Single Honor History programme is of four-years duration.
In the first year all Junior Freshmen take two core modules, entitled Doing History and Interpreting History, both of which seek to introduce students to the sources, methodologies and arguments characteristic of the study of history. In addition, students are introduced to surveys of what are usually unfamiliar periods and topics, such as medieval and early modern Ireland, medieval and early modern Europe and aspects of non-European history.
In the second (Senior Freshman) year, modules cover what is often more familiar territory in modern Irish and European history, along with further options in medieval and early modern history for those who wish to pursue them. As in the Junior Freshman year students learn through a mixture of classroom-based lectures and tutorials, as well as through independent learning, preparing for classes and written work in our excellent library facilities.
At the third and fourth levels Sophister students follow a range of thematic and document-based Special Subjects, which reflect the expertise of staff. While Freshman modules consist of several lectures, there is a growing emphasis on seminars and discussion in the final two years. In the third year students do two five-credit modules of Researching History which delve into historiography and methodology of research. Across all modules each student will produce several essays and other assessment work. In the fourth year a dissertation of 10,000 words represents the summit of historical training for the Single Honor students. Dissertation topics are chosen by students themselves in consultation with their allocated supervisors and students can explore issues outside the normal coverage of the programme.
- Start Date: September 2022
- Duration: 4 years
- Features: Opportunities to study abroad
Modules offered in 2022-23
Freshman (Year One)
Michaelmas
- HIU12020: Kingship and Warfare: Ireland, c.1000-1318 (10 ECTS)
- HIU12021: Religion and Society, c.1095-c.1517 (10 ECTS)
- HIU12022: Early Christian Ireland (5 ECTS)
- HIU11001: Doing History: Sources (5 ECTS)
Hilary
- HIU12023: Ireland, 1534-1815: A Survey (10 ECTS)
- HIU12024: Europe, 1500-1800: Power and Culture (10 ECTS)
- HIU12032: Climate and Environment in the Premodern World (5 ECTS)
- HIU11002: Doing History: Interpretations (5 ECTS)
Senior Freshman (Year Two)
The following is the single honors route.
Michaelmas
- HIU12031 Life in Modern Ireland (10 ECTS) or
- HIU12028: War and Peace in Modern Europe, 1900 – the present (10 ECTS) and
- HIU12003: Imagining History (5 ECTS) or
- HHU22003 Histories and Futures of Climate Change (5ECTS)
Hilary
- HIU12027: Imperialism to Globalism: Europe and the World 1860-1970 (10 ECTS) or
- HIU12026: American History: A Survey (10 ECTS) and
- HIU12030: The Hundred Years War (5 ECTS) or
- HHU13002: Gender, Culture and Society (5 ECTS)
10 ECTS each semester to be taken from TEP electives
Students in Joint Honors (HPS) take between 20 and 40 ECTs in their senior freshman year, depending on their pathway choice.
Sophister Specialist (Years Three & Four)
JS Research Modules
List I, Year Long
Available to: all SS students except NMS; JS Single Honours Students
- HIU34023-4024 Revolutionary Britain I and II
- HIU34031-32 Lordship and Dynasty: The Gaelic World and the Shaping of Britain and Ireland c. 1296-c. 1513 I and II
- HIU34035-36 Empire and Environment in Russia from Peter I to Gorbachev I and II
- HIU34037-4038 Loaded with Dynamite: Ireland’s Global Revolution
- HIU34043-44 From Kingdom to Colony: Ireland in the Twelfth Century I and II
- HIU34045-46 Plantations and the Second Conquest of Latin America I and II
- HIU34047-48 Ireland in Rebellion I and II
- HIU34049-50 Ireland’s Colonial Legacies I and II
- HIU35051-52 Women and Children in the Early Modern Period I and II
- HIU34053-54 Medieval Marriage I and II
- HIU34055-56 French Revolution 1789-1799 I and II
- HIU34057-58 Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s I and II
- HIU34059-60 Power and People: State and Society in Ireland 1689-1783 I and II
- HIU34061-62 Empire Transformed: The Cromwellian Conquest and Settlement of Ireland 1641-1660 I and II
List II
Michaelmas term. Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HIU34502: Popular Culture in Twentieth Century Ireland
- HIU34517: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
- HIU34518: Histories of Transylvania
- HIU34519: History and Fiction
- HIU34527 The Melting Pot: Race and Ethnicity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIU34528: Empire, Community and Culture
- HIU34531 German Empires at War
- HIU34533: Re-imagining Northern Ireland
- HIU34535: Lancaster versus York: Power, Conflict, and Identity in The Wars of the Roses
Michaelmas Term. Available to SS Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34452: The Republic of Ireland and the Sixties
- HIU34534: Green against Green: The Irish Civil War 1922-23
- HIU34549: The American Civil War
- HIU34550: Colonial South Asia: Imperialism, Resistance, Identity, and Nationalism
- HIU34551: The Nobility in Early Modern Ireland
- HIU34555: Slavery in the First Millennium, c. AD 350 – c. AD 1050
Hilary Term
Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HI4322: Race and Ethnicity in American Social Thought since 1940
- HIU34506: Creating a Colonial Capital: Dublin under the Anglo-Normans
- HIU34509: Atlantic Island: 18th century Ireland in Oceanic Perspective
- HIU34512: Global Crises: Environmental Disasters in World History
- HIU34515: Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
- HIU34522: Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail: Presidential Elections in American History, 1796-2016
- HIU34526: The Politics of Nature, Environmentalism in the Twentieth Century
- HIU34546: Renaissance Florence 1347-1527
- RUU44092: The History of Everyday Life in Communist Eastern Europe
Hilary Term
Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34541 The Making of Brazil: An Environmental History
- HIU34553 From Tenochtitlan to Tokyo: A Global History of Dynastic Power in the Pre-Modern World
- HIU34554 Space and Identity in the Metropolis: Dublin c. 1880-1980
- HIU34557: Cultures of Violence in the Reformation
- WSU34030: Sex and the City: Twentieth-Century Urban Queer History
- HIU34556 Mobility, Migration and the Cold War