BA History and Sociology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider this qualification in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 overall (16 higher, including 5 standard points in mathematics)
About this course
BA in History and Sociology, a sociology and history degree examining human societies through historical and sociological perspectives. Core topics include Research Methods and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete independent dissertations in both history and sociology during the final year of study. The first year introduces foundational concepts through modules such as Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory, Exploring History, and Global Empires. The second year advances methodology and subject knowledge through Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods, History in Practice, and Australia and the World. The final year focuses on advanced historical periods and contemporary sociological issues, featuring compulsory modules like The Third Reich, 1933-1945 and Quantitative Social Research alongside independent dissertations.
Modules
- Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory
- Formations of Coloniality/Modernity
- Exploring History
- Diverse Histories of Britain
- Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750
- The Medieval World in Ten Objects
- Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Belief
- Global Empires
- Global Decolonization
- The Making of the Twentieth Century
- Darwin, Germs and the Bomb
- Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods
- History in Practice
- State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Australia and the World
- The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603
- Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700
- Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89
- Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865
- Histories of Black Britain
- Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present
- India 1857-1947
- Crime, Law and Regulation
- Disability Studies: An Introduction
- The Sociology of Gender
- Crime, Race and Ethnicity
- Debates in Childhood and Youth
- The Sociology of Culture
- Sociology and the Climate Crisis
- History Dissertation
- Sociology/Social Policy/Crime Dissertation
- Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952
- The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-1940
- The Third Reich, 1933-1945
- Europe in an Age of Total Warfare
- War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660
- Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic
- Georgians at War
- The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire
- Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888
- The Global Vietnam War
- Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics
- Quantitative Social Research
- Disability and Development
- Contemporary Children, Young People and Families
- Global Terrorism and Violence
- Gender, Technologies and the Body
- Ethnicity and Popular Culture
- Pacific to the Atlantic