Restricted Course Choices 2009-2010

This is a very important section of the handbook. Please ensure you read this before choosing any course/modules.

Some departments have to close course to “non Sheffield” students.

This can be for a variety of reasons including, professional accreditation issues, set Sheffield pre-requisites, quota and class sizes.

Below you will find information about Architecture, History Human Communication Science, Journalism, Politics and Psychology.

Department of Architecture

The only courses open to you are:

ARC103 Humanities 1

ARC104 Humanities 2

ARC203 Humanities 3

ARC204 Humanities 4

ARC303 Humanities 5

Department of History

Level 100 courses available are:

  • HST112: Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
  • HST115: The 'Disenchantment' of Early Modern Europe, c. 1570-1770
  • HST118: History of the United States, 1776-2004
  • HST114: Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe
  • HST117: The Making of the Twentieth Century
  • HST119: The Transformation of Britain, 1800 to the present

History Courses

Level 200 courses available are:

  • HST2016: Barcelona and the 'Tragic Week'
  • HST2017: The Putney Debates, October 1647
  • HST2021: British Responses to the Armenian Genocide
  • HST276: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain, 1850 to the Present
  • HST201: International History of the State
  • HST217: The Origins of the American Civil War
  • HST227: The early Medieval Family: Romans, Barbarians and Christians
  • HST246: Gender, Culture and Society, Britain 1689-1837
  • HST257: Decolonisation: Britain's Retreat from Empire
  • HST287: From World War to Cold War: Europe 1946-1968

Level 300

Students are admitted to level 300 courses only in exceptional circumstances. Students who particularly wish to study on these courses should seek the advice of the history department study abroad advisor at an early stage.

Department of Human Communication Sciences

The only courses open to you are:

  • HCS113 Lifespan Communicative and Cognitive Development
  • HCS114 Introduction to Communication

Department of Journalism

The only courses open to you are:

JNL107 Tabloid Journalism

JNL108 Understanding the Media

JNL109 Ethics and Journalism

JNL110 Current Debates in Broadcasting

The following courses can accommodate one or two Study Abroad students. Subject to suitable prior knowledge, however, approval onto these courses is not guaranteed. You are recommended to apply as early as possible:

JNL112 Researching and Reporting

JNL316 Magazine Journalism and Feature Writing

JNL210 Language and Journalism

JNL217 Alternative Media

JNL312 Journalism and Political Communication

JNL315 Free Speech and Censorship

JNL311 The Culture of TV News Production
(Requires 2 years journalism skills)

Department of Politics

The only courses open to you are:

POL109 Comparing Modern Polities

POL110 An Introduction to the History of Western Political Thought

POL111 The Politics of Globalisation

POL112 British Politics

POL202 The Analysis of British Politics

POL206 The Politics and Government of the European Union

POL217 The Global Political Economy

POL219 Contemporary International Affairs

POL223 International Relations Theory

POL224 Modern Political Thought

POL225 New Politics of Latin America

POL226 Comparative Politics: Citizens, States, Power and Protest

POL228 International Security Studies

LEVEL 300 MODULES ARE NOT PERMITTED

Department of Psychology

The only courses open to you are:

PSY101 Discovering Psychology

PSY105 Discovering Cognitive Science: Minds, Brains and Machines

PSY106 Memory, Skill and Everyday Life

PSY108 Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology

PSY110 Social Understanding, Social Communication, Social Places