Specialist courses
In addition to taking the core course, students select from a menu of specialist options.
Below is a list of courses that will be running in 2019/20:
- HST7203 – Early Modern Theories of State (Professor Quentin Skinner)
- HST7319 – In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890 (Professor Gareth Stedman Jones)
- HST7701 – Religion and the Age of Enlightenment (Dr Robin Mills)
- 7AAH2022 – Liberty, Reason, and The State: British Moral and Political Thought in Early-Modernity (Dr Hannah Dawson)
- HIST0626 – Political Thought in Renaissance Europe (Part 1) (Dr Angus Gowland)
- HIST0627 – Crisis and Future in 19th Century European Thought (Professor Axel Körner)
- MDVL0054 – The Invention of the Question: A History of European Thinking, 1100-1400 (Dr John Sabapathy )
- HST7316 – Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries (Professor Georgios Varouxakis)
- HST7702 – Empire and Early Modern Political Thought (Fitzmaurice, Andrew)
- HIST0361 – Nations, States and Empires in Transnational Perspectives (Professor Axel Körner)
- TBC – The Enlightenment (Dr Will Selinger)
- HST7001 – Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History (Professor Georgios Varouxakis & Dr Mira Siegelberg)
- HST7700 – Latin for MA students (TBC)
Courses that have run in previous years:
The Public Sphere in Britain, 1476-1800
- Jason Peacey (UCL)
Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism
Selfhood, Sensibility and the Politics of Difference in the European Enlightenment
- Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)
Enlightenment and Revolution: Political Ideas in the British Isles, 1688-1800
- Ian McBride (KCL)
Signs, Mind, and Society: Early Modern Theories of Language
- Avi Lifschitz (UCL)
Visions of Capitalism
- Jeremy Jennings (KCL)
Crisis and Future in Nineteenth-Century European Thought
- Axel Körner (UCL)
Political Thought in Renaissance Europe
- Angus Gowland (UCL)
The Invention of the Question: a History of European Thinking, 1100-1400
Adam Smith and the State
- Julian Hoppit (UCL)