Expand+Students take 20 credits as follows:

Year 1 Modules:
◾HI1002: The Making of the Modern Irish State (5 credits)
The module acts as a foundation level course, introducing students to the broad developments of modern Irish history, from the H...

Hide-Students take 20 credits as follows:

Year 1 Modules:
◾HI1002: The Making of the Modern Irish State (5 credits)
The module acts as a foundation level course, introducing students to the broad developments of modern Irish history, from the Home Rule Crisis to the modern day.

◾HI1003: East and West: The Origins of European Identity (5 credits)
The module acts as a foundation level course, introducing students to the skills and techniques of historical research in general, and medieval Europe in particular.

◾HI1006: US History since 1865 (5 credits)
'US History since 1865' will provide first year students with an introduction to the key events, ideas, and movements that shaped US history from the years 1865 to 2008. It will explore the relationships between culture and politics, foreign and domestic policies, and how the United States interacted with the world around it. This course will move from an examination of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the socioeconomic transformations of westward expansion and industrialisation, to the transition from isolationism to super-power from World War I to the Cold War, to consider the 'unipolar moment' when, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US seemingly stood alone in the world in terms of its power and prestige. Key areas: Reconstruction; industrialization; immigration; expansion and Empire; World War II, the Cold War and the emergence of a superpower; the struggle for Civil Rights; dissent and protest movements; the post-Cold War world: the unipolar moment and the debate over American decline.

◾HI2105: Case Studies in Research Skills (5 credits)
Lecturers are assigned a small group (if possible, no more than 15 per group) for intensive tuition in historical sources and methods. The core of this module will be an historiographical and methodological study of a major historical work, and/or of the work of a major historian, and/or a set of sources.