Joint Honours
The Joint Honours programme in history deals with various periods of Irish, European, American, and world history, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the first year of study students take a methodological module on 'Doing History' in each term; they also have a choice of several 10 ECTS modules on the Middle Ages in the first term and on the early modern period in the second. In the second year students take modules on the modern period. They have a choice of several pathways, and if they choose a History Major they also participate in a group project. As in the Junior Freshman, so in the senior 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. Specifics of the module offerings can be seen on our Joint Honours Pathway chart.
In the third year, where there is a growing emphasis on seminar discussion, students choose a ‘List 2’ module each term from a wide list that may change from year to year. A sample list is below. They also take a two-semester sequence ‘Researching History’ that treats historiography and methodology.
For those who decide to take the final year in History, the programme includes a pair of List 1 modules, which together run all year and include an intensive discussion of primary sources. They also take two further List 2 modules and write a Dissertation based on a critical survey of original sources.
It is possible to spend all or part of the second or third year at one of our partner institutions in other countries. Results from these universities are recognised as part of your TCD degree - so spending time abroad does not lengthen the times needed to obtain a degree. For further details, see the links for Outgoing Erasmus Students and Outgoing Non-EU Exchange Students on the International section of our website.
List 1 Modules Offered in 2021-22
- HI3435 Conflict in the Age of O’Connell, 1745-1847
- HIU34018: Revolutionary Britain 1678-1715
- HIU34005: Ireland, Modernity, and Empire
- HIU34014: American Politics and Culture
- HIU34010: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1917-1989
- HIU34016: ‘Lordship and Dynasty: The Gaelic World and the Shaping of Britain and Ireland, c.1296-c.1513’
- HIU34012: Poverty in Modern Ireland
- HIU34013: Empire and Environment in Russia from Peter I to Gorbachev
- HIU34539: ‘Loaded with dynamite’: Ireland’s global revolution 1918-23
- HIU34015: Fascism 1914 to the Present
- WSU34001: Sexuality and Gender in England, 1885-1967
- HIU34017: The Cult of Saints in the First Millennium: from Ireland to Iran
- HIU34006: From Kingdom to Colony: Ireland in the Twelfth Century
- WSU3410 Art, Gender and the Body in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
List 2 Modules Offered in 2021-22
- HIU34502: Popular Culture in Twentieth Century Ireland
- HIU34519: History and Fiction
- HIU34535: Lancaster versus York: Power, Conflict, and Identity in The Wars of the Roses
- HIU34517: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
- HIU34518: Histories of Transylvania
- HIU34534: Green against Green: The Irish Civil War 1922-23
- HIU34533: Re-imagining Northern Ireland
- HIU34506: Creating a Colonial Capital: Dublin under the Anglo-Normans
- HIU34543: Changing China: Communists, Capitalists and Colonists in the early twentieth century
- HIU34544: Ireland in Rebellion: Constitutional Nationalism v. Republicanism, 1782-1916
- HIU34545: Representing the Irish Revolution
- HIU34520: Writing the Enlightenment: Cultural Change in 18th century Europe
- HIU34503: Race and Ethnicity in American Social Thought Since 1940
- HIU34528: Empire, Community and Culture
- HIU34548: Science in the Middle Ages
- HIU34541 The Making of Brazil: An Environmental History
- HIU34509: Atlantic Island: 18th century Ireland in Oceanic Perspective
- The History of Everyday Life in Communist Eastern Europe
- HIU34515: Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
- HIU34538: America and The Cold War
- HIU34546: Renaissance Florence 1347-1527
- HIU34525: The Elizabethan Renaissance
- HIU34537: ‘Crowned by God’: Europe in the Age of Charlemagne
- HIU34508: The Troubles, 1968-1998: From Civil Rights to the Good Friday Agreement
- HIU34531 German Empires at War, 1914-1945
- 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
- HIU34547: On the Edge of the Law: Communists, Fascists, and the Mafia in Modern Italy