History Course content
Key information
History at UL has a number of key components or themes that run throughout the four years of their programme leading to specialist options in the final year, among these are the following:
- Documentary sources analysis and theory, critical historical practice.
- Historical schools/eras in history- writing/historiography since classical times until the present day.
- General electives in late-medieval European history (Renaissance / Reformation/Counter-Reformation); warfare and diplomacy in the seventeenth century; political history of Irish nationalism / republicanism; the cultural and social history of everyday life in Ireland since the eighteenth century; America / Irish relations; Global History during the early modern and modern periods; historiography.
- Specialist electives on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain; Ireland and America; the country house in Ireland, history of the family, the Cold War, Art and Visual Culture.
The modules shown below are just for this subject however, students take five modules each semester. The mix of modules will depend on which course you are studying. More information on subject combinations is available on the course page for either LM002 Bachelor of Arts & LM019 Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences . Modules are subject to change.
History is offered as a pathway on the two programmes below, LM002 Arts and LM019 Social Sciences however it is also offered as an elective on other courses such as the BA in European Studies, Bachelor of Laws (Law Plus), and the BA in Journalism and Digital Communications.
Bachelor of Arts pathway
Semester 1
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4071 | Doing History: past, present and practice |
Semester 2
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4142 | Games of Thrones: Gender, Power and Identity, Ireland and the Wider World, 1500-1950 |
Semester 3
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Students select two modules | |
| HI4063 | Nasty and Brutish: Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700 |
| HI4083 | Making Ireland British: Early Modern Ireland, 1436-1750 |
| HI4103 | Imagining Ireland: from early Modern to Modern |
Semester 4
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Cooperative Education Work Placement |
Semester 5
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Erasmus/Exchange placement with a partner institution abroad |
Semester 6
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Students select two modules | |
| HI4046 | Contesting the past: writing history |
| HI4056 | New Heaven, New Earth: power and belief in the European Reformation 1517-1618 |
| HI4066 | Absolutes and Revolutionaries: Europe in the age of Enlightenment 1688-1815 |
| HI4076 | Patriots to Parnell: Ireland, 1750-1891 |
Semester 7
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Students select two modules | |
| HI4287 | THE END OF THE COLD WAR |
| HI4168 | THE COUNTRY HOUSE IN IRELAND; CLASS, GENDER AND CULTURE |
| HI4267 | ADVANCED HISTORY SPECIALISM |
| HI4117 | THE IRISH CONFLICT, 1948 – 98 |
| HI4327 | SEX, SCANDAL AND SIN: NEGOTIATING DEVIANCIES IN IRELAND AND NORTH AMERICA |
Semester 8
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Students select two modules | |
| HI4117 | THE IRISH CONFLICT, 1948 – 98 |
| HI4217 | The Early Modern City, 1500-1800 |
| HI4227 | GOLDEN AGE: POLITICS, CULTURE AND WARFARE IN THE SPANISH MONARCHY, 1598 – 1746 |
| HI4277 | ART, NATION, AND EMPIRE: 1750-1950 |
| HI4107 | CONSERVATIVES, PATRIOTS AND RADICALS: POLITICS AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN AND IRELAND |
Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences pathway
Semester 1
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4071 | Doing History: past, present and practice |
Semester 2
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4142 | Games of Thrones: Gender, Power and Identity, Ireland and the Wider World, 1500-1950 |
Semester 3
Students studying History as a major must select two modules. Students studying History as a minor must select one module.
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4063 | Nasty and Brutish: Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700 |
| HI4083 | Making Ireland British: Early Modern Ireland, 1436-1750 |
| HI4103 | Imagining Ireland: from early Modern to Modern |
Semester 4
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Cooperative Education Work Placement |
Semester 5
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| Erasmus/Exchange placement with a partner institution abroad |
Semester 6
Students studying History as a major must select two modules. Students studying History as a minor must select one module.
Semester 7
Students studying History as a major must select two modules. Students studying History as a minor must select one module.
| Module code | Module title |
|---|---|
| HI4287 | THE END OF THE COLD WAR |
| HI4168 | THE COUNTRY HOUSE IN IRELAND; CLASS, GENDER AND CULTURE |
| HI4267 | ADVANCED HISTORY SPECIALISM |
| HI4117 | THE IRISH CONFLICT, 1948 – 98 |
| HI4327 | SEX, SCANDAL AND SIN: NEGOTIATING DEVIANCIES IN IRELAND AND NORTH AMERICA |
Semester 8
Students studying History as a major must select two modules. Students studying History as a minor must select one module.
