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BA History

University of Leeds

Institution
University of Leeds
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V100
Typical offer
A-level BBB, IB 35

Entry requirements

A level: AAB BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level

About this course

BA in History, a history degree covering global and chronological developments from the medieval era to the modern period. Core topics include Research Methods. The course utilises local archives and special collections to provide hands-on engagement with primary source materials. The first year covers foundational historical periods and themes through Exploring History, Diverse Histories of Britain, Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750, and Global Empires. The second year builds methodological and thematic depth via History in Practice, The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603, Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715, and Britain and the Industrial Revolution. The final year involves independent research and focused study through History Dissertation, Public History Final Year Project, The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and The Korean War.

Modules

  • 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 Decolonisation
  • The Making of the Twentieth Century
  • History in Practice
  • The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603
  • Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715
  • Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700
  • Medieval Romans and the shape of Afro-Eurasia today
  • Britain and the Industrial Revolution
  • Imperial Germany 1871-1918
  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993
  • Bass Culture in Modern Britain
  • Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939
  • The Popular Caribbean: A History
  • Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama
  • Histories of Black Britain
  • Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present
  • History Dissertation
  • Public History Final Year Project
  • Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952
  • The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
  • Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998
  • Black British Culture and Black British Cultural Studies
  • The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968
  • The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945
  • War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660
  • Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800
  • Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic
  • White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power
  • Georgians at War
  • The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire
  • The Korean War
  • Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888
  • Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics