Joint Honours
The Joint Honours programme in history deals with various periods of Irish, European, American, and world history, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the first year of study students take a methodological module on 'Doing History' in each term; they also have a choice of several 10 ECTS modules on the Middle Ages in the first term and on the early modern period in the second. In the second year students take modules on the modern period. They have a choice of several pathways, and if they choose a History Major they also participate in a group project. As in the Junior Freshman, so in the senior Freshman year students learn through a mixture of classroom-based lectures and tutorials, as well as through independent learning, preparing for classes and written work in our excellent library facilities. Specifics of the module offerings can be seen on our Joint Honours Pathway chart.
In the third year, where there is a growing emphasis on seminar discussion, students choose a ‘List 2’ module each term from a wide list that may change from year to year. A sample list is below. They also take a two-semester sequence ‘Researching History’ that treats historiography and methodology.
For those who decide to take the final year in History, the programme includes a pair of List 1 modules, which together run all year and include an intensive discussion of primary sources. They also take two further List 2 modules and write a Dissertation based on a critical survey of original sources.
It is possible to spend all or part of the second or third year at one of our partner institutions in other countries. Results from these universities are recognised as part of your TCD degree - so spending time abroad does not lengthen the times needed to obtain a degree. For further details, see the links for Outgoing Erasmus Students and Outgoing Non-EU Exchange Students on the International section of our website.
List I, Year Long
Available to: all SS students except NMS; JS Single Honours Students
- HIU34076/76 Edward I, Edward II and the Conquest of Britain, c.1272 - c.1327
- HIU34067-68 Deviance and Dissent: Crime in the British Isles, 1250-1450
- HIU34077/78. Food, Bodies and Identities in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
- HIU34023/24. Revolutionary Britain I and II
- HIU34039/30. The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1917-1989, I and II
- HIU34069-40 Fascism, 1914-Present I and II
- HIU34049-50 Ireland’s Colonial Legacies I and II
- HIU34027-28 American Politics and Culture I and II
- HIU34035/36 Empire and Environment in Russia from Peter I to Gorbachev
- HIU34081/82 From Plantation Colony to Global Development Power: A History of Modern Brazil
- HIU34083/84 British and French Colonialism in the Middle East, 1919-39
- HIU34063-64 Poverty, Class, and Power in Modern Ireland
- HIU34065-66 Gender, Family, and Sexuality in Ireland, c. 1860s to 1990s
- HIU34079/80 The Troubles, 1968–1998: From Civil Rights to the Good Friday Agreement
List II
Michaelmas term. Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HIU34506 Creating a Colonial Capital: Dublin Under the Anglo-Normans
- HIU34509 Atlantic Island: Eighteenth-Century Ireland in Oceanic Perspective
- HIU34566 Childhood in Modern Global History
- HIU34517 Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
- HIU34533 Re-Imagining Northern Ireland
- HIU34523 Worlds of Dissent: Dissidents and Resistance in Communist Europe
- HIU34528 Empire, Community, and Culture
Michaelmas Term. Available to SS Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34560 The World of the Crusades
- HIU34520 Writing the Enlightenment
- HIU34543 Changing China: Communists, Capitalists and Colonialists in the Early 20th Century
- HIU34503 Race and Ethnicity in American Social Thought since 1940
- HIU34519 History and Fiction
- HIU34568 Rebels and Reformers: The Modern Middle East in Upheaval
Hilary Term
Available to all JS students and to SS NMS students
- HIU34572 Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages
- HIU34570 Sickness and Health in Early Modern Europe
- HIU34515 Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France
- HIU34518 Histories of Transylvania: Blood and Soil
- HIU34531 German Empires at War, 1914-1945
- RUU44092 The History of Everyday Life in Communist Eastern Europe
- HIU34571 A module in modern US history
- HIU34573 Around the Equator: A Global History of the Tropics
Hilary Term
Single Honours and Majors taking 60 ECTS in History
- HIU34557 Cultures of Violence in the Reformation
- HIU34522 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: Presidential Elections in American History, 1796-2024
- HIU34562 Dissenting Ireland: From Plantation to Partition
- HIU34574 Commodity frontiers: Labour, nature and capital in global history
- HIU34519 A module in modern South Asian History
- HIU34452 The Republic of Ireland and the Sixties
List III.
Available to JS History Majors taking 40 ECTS in History
Michaelmas term
- HIU33105 Froissart, Chivalry and Warfare
- HIU31104 Reading the 1641 Depositions
- HIU33114 The Early Modern Alehouse
- HIU33110 The Madness of Crowds: The South Sea Bubble of 1720
- HIU33102 Images of Empire: Representing Politics in the Age of Napoleon
- HIU33111 The Repatriation of Roger Casement
- HIU33115 A module in modern US History
Hilary Term
- HIU33108 Reading the Queer Middle Ages
- HIU33116 Are we free (to be good)? Reading Erasmus and Luther
- HIU33110 Reading Marx
- HIU33111 Reading the Boundary Commission Report
- HIU33107 Reading Chains or Change: Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and 1970s Ireland
- HIU33117 The Politics of Justice: The History of the ’Scottsboro Trial’ in 1930s America
- HIU33113 A module in Modern South Asian History