BA History
Entry requirements
96 – 112 UCAS tariff points Your grades are just one part of your story, which is why at UoG we accept any grades from any combination of level 3 qualifications. A-level CCC – BBC BTEC MMM – DMM T-level Merit Here’s an example of how 96 – 112 UCAS tariff points might look for some common level 3 qualifications. GCSE in English Lang/Lit and Maths at grade 4/C or above are usually required. Unsure if we could offer you a place? Check out the UCAS tariff calculator or contact our admissions team if you have any questions.
About this course
BA (Hons) History, spanning Early Modern, British, European, American and Russian history. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Project Management, and Communication & Writing. Students complete an independently researched dissertation at Level 6, supported by a subject-specific supervisor. The History in Practice module involves collaborative projects with external partners, producing public-facing materials for the Cotswold Centre for History & Heritage.
Modules
- How to Time Travel: Doing & Representing History
- Making the Modern World: Major Themes in History
- Emancipation to Revolution: Russia, 1861-1921
- Between Freedom and Slavery: the USA from Revolution to Civil War
- The Reformations in Early Modern Europe
- Georgian Britain
- Research and Inquiry
- History in Practice
- Values and Empire in Victorian Britain
- Religion, Superstition and Fear in Early Modern Europe
- Reconstructing America after the Civil War
- Building Socialism: State and Society in the Early Soviet Union
- Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
- The American Century: from the Great Depression to Vietnam
- The Dissertation
- Conflict and Consensus in 20th Century Britain
- A Global History of Liberty
- European Intellectual History
- Violence and Division in the Elizabethan Age
- The British Revolutions of the 17th Century
- Black America: from the Blues to Black Power
- Thaw to Glasnost: the Soviet Union, 1953-1991