Postgraduate History Modules

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

Running 2019/20

• Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern Africa
• Colonial curricula: empire and education at SOAS and beyond
• Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia
• Debating Pasts, Crafting Histories
• Dissertation in History
• Dissertation in History: Africa
• Dissertation in History: East Asia
• Dissertation in History: Near and Middle East
• Dissertation in History: South Asia
• Dissertation in History: South East Asia
• Gender, law and the family in the history of modern South Asia
• Independent Research Essay in History 1
• Independent Research Essay in History 3
• Introductory Akkadian (Masters)
• Introductory Sumerian (Masters)
• Islam in South Asia
• Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China
• Mesopotamian Languages and Literature A: the third millennium
• Mesopotamian Languages and Literature B: the second millenium BC
• Mesopotamian Languages and Literature C: the first millenium bc
• Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East I
• Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East II
• Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
• Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern Africa Since 1945

Courses Not Running 2019/20

• Asian Armies and National Development
• Asian Wars: World War II and the End of Empire (1942-1960)
• Encountering the Other: the Middle East during the Crusading Period
• Environmental History of Asia
• Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa
• Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 1 - Making States and Building Nations
• Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 2 - Non-National Perspectives
• Introductory Hittite (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 Early Development of Islam: Emerging Identities and Contending View
• The End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans I
• The End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans II
• 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