BA History and Human Geography
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BA (Hons) in History and Geography, combining the study of human societies and major historical milestones with human geography. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme includes a placement year option, either one year-long or two shorter placements, and a dissertation module in the final year. A field-based module introduces urban regeneration and inequalities through visits to London and a European city.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- Geography: A Controversial Discipline
- Historians and their Craft
- Urban Regeneration and Inequalities (field-based)
- Climate Politics
- Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa
- Colonialism, Migration and Global Racism
- Fascist Italy, 1919-1945: Revolution, Conflict and Collapse
- Insurgency and Counter-insurgency
- Middle East: Societies, Religion and Politics
- Military History and Strategic Thought from the Ancients to the Present
- Sustainable Development and Political Ecology
- The First World War: Causes, Course, Consequences
- Advanced Research Skills for History
- Dissertation
- Leadership for Change
- Cities, Culture and Social Change
- Climate Justice in a Changing World
- Environment and Sustainability
- Global Migration
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Political Economy of the Changing World Order
- Primary Source Workshop
- Slavery and Abolition
- The Second World War
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa