Postgraduate History Modules

Please note: Not all modules listed may be available every year. Please contact the relevant module convenor or Faculty Office.

Running 2020/21

• Advanced Cuneiform Texts: The Age of Babylon
• Advanced Cuneiform Texts: The Earliest Literature
• Asian Armies and National Development
• Asian Wars: World War II and the End of Empire (1942-1960)
• Colonial curricula: empire and education at SOAS and beyond
• Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia
• Debating Pasts, Crafting Histories
• Dissertation in Ancient Near Eastern Languages
• Dissertation in History
• Empire and Reform in the Modern Middle East, 1789-1914
• Empire, Law, and Citizenship in the Middle East and the Balkans
• Gender and Empire in Early Modern China
• H249 Empire and Reform in the Modern Middle East, 1789-1914
• Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa
• Independent Research Essay in History 1
• Introductory Hittite (Masters)
• Islam in South Asia
• Nationalism and Revolution in the Modern Middle East, 1914-1979
• Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
• Race, Segregation, and Apartheid in Twentieth-century South Africa (PG)
• The Early Development of Islam: Emerging Identities and Contending View
• White Supremacy and African Resistance in Colonial Southern Africa

Courses Not Running 2020/21

• Advanced Cuneiform Texts: The Age of Empires
• Encountering the Other: the Middle East during the Crusading Period
• Environmental History of Asia
• Gender, law and the family in the history of modern South Asia
• Introductory Akkadian (Masters)
• Introductory Sumerian (Masters)
• Iran and the Persianiate world, 1400 to 1800
• Iran and the Persianiate world, 1800 to 1979
• Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners
• Slavery in West Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Sources and Research Design in Historical Research
• Sumerian Language
• The Body and the Making of Colonial Difference in British India
• The End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans I
• The Making of the Contemporary World
• The Origin of Islam: Sources and Perspectives
• Warfare and the Military in Modern Africa
• Warfare and the Military in Precolonial Africa