Second Year Modules (students select a minimum of 60 CATS of CAS Modules and a maximum of 60 CATS of Outside Options)
 

Second-year CAS Modules:

• AM217 Caribbean History: From Colonisation to Independence (30 CATS)
• AM219 From the Revolution to the Drug War: Mexico’s Twentieth Century (30 CATS)
• HI282 The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929 (15 CATS, Term 1)
• HI2B7 African American History and Culture (15 CATS, Term 1)
• HI2A8 The Formation of American Culture, 1929-2000 (15 CATS, Term 2)
• HI2B1 America in Black and White? Contemporary US Race Relations in Historical Context (15 CATS, Term 2)
  

Second-year approved Outside Options:

• Any of the second-year History option modules
• US Writing and Culture (EN213 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• North American Women Writers (EN223 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• Modern American Poetry (EN248 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• Expatriation, Dispatriation and Modern American Writing (EN271 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• Discovering Cinema (FI101 in Film & TV Studies Department)
• any two of the Level 2 15 CATS modules (i.e. 30 CATS in total) offered by the Hispanic Studies Department:
• Politics of the USA (PO207 in Politics and International Studies Department)
• any two of the 15 CATS undergraduate interdiciplinary modules (i.e. 30 CATS in total) offered by IATL
• 30 CATS of any language modules (Language Centre) but cannot be at beginners level and must be Spanish in order to be eligible for a Year Abroad in Latin America

 

Final Year Modules (students select one or two final-year American History modules, plus the dissertation, then plus up to two further modules from the lists below)

Final Year American History Modules:

• AM407 Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 (30 CATS)
• AM417 Slavery, Memory and Memorialisation (30 CATS)
• AM421 A History of the Latin American Drug Trade (30 CATS)
• AM434 From the Blues to Hip Hop (30 CATS)
• HI3G2 Parents & Children in Western Europe and North America, 1860 to the Present (30 CATS)
• HI3J9 Whiteness: An American History (30 CATS)
• HI33Y The Historical Film (30 CATS)
• Dissertation

Fourth year students are also able to take up to two second year modules (listed above, excluding FI101 and PO207, and excluding any modules already taken in the second year) plus the following Outside Option modules taught by other departments:

• Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature (EN304 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• States of Damage (EN336 in English and Comparative Literary Studies Department)
• Hollywood Cinema (FI102 in Film & TV Studies Department) (requires the study of FI101 in the second year)
• any two of the Level 3 15 CATS modules (i.e. 30 CATS in total) offered by the Hispanic Studies Department:
• US Foreign Policy (PO379 in Politics and International Studies Department)
• Vigilant State: The Politics of Intelligence (PO382 in Politics and International Studies Department)
• Spanish (Language Centre, as appropriate to ability)