BA History
Entry requirements
A level: CCC - CDD
About this course
BA (Hons) in History, covering the modern and contemporary period since 1789. Core topics include Research Methods and Social & Cultural Analysis. Each year includes at least one practice-based module working in a local archive or heritage institution. An optional placement year is available for additional professional experience.
Modules
- Global History in Perspective
- Making Histories I: Methods, Theories, Controversies
- Contemporary Britain: from the Boer War to Brexit
- Archive and Museum Project
- War and Genocide
- Inventions, Discoveries, and Cures: Science, Technology, and Medicine since 1750
- Identities and Inequalities I
- Introduction to Social Theory
- Introduction to Discourse Analysis
- The Novel through Time
- Rewriting Shakespeare
- Law for Business
- Introduction to Marketing Management
- Case Studies in Global History
- Making Histories II
- Humanitarian Action and Foreign Intervention, 1915 - Today
- The Atlantic World: Slavery and Emancipation
- Bullets, Bombs, and Bitcoin: History and Technology since 1900
- Birmingham and Midlands History Project
- East Asian Politics and Society: China and Japan
- North American Politics and Society
- South Asian Politics and Society
- West European Politics and Society
- Politics and Society of the Middle East
- Post-apocalyptic Fiction
- Literature in Film
- Professional Communication
- Health and Society
- Integrated Placement Year
- Dissertation (History)
- History Workshop
- Twin Periods? The Interwar Years and post-1989 History
- Teaching History in the 21st Century
- Emotions, International Politics, and Culture, from the 19th Century to the Present
- Reinventing the World: Industrial and Technological Transitions
- The History of Internationalism: From Karl Marx to Greta Thunberg
- The History and Politics of Decolonisation
- Contemporary Social Movements
- Creative Writing