BA History and American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB at A-Level
About this course
BA in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing and History. Core topics include historical research. Students may spend a year of accredited study at partner universities in the United States. A heritage field project module is also available.
Modules
- After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
- Cultures of Struggle and Liberation: Twentieth Century Southern Africa
- The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Sport and the British
- You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
- Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
- Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
- The Making of a Nation: India and the British Empire 1857-1947
- The American Presidency
- The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World 1830-1914
- The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
- The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- The Other in American Fiction and Film
- American Political Development
- Making History
- With Liberty and Justice for All? US History since 1776
- Introduction to Comparative Politics: Europe and the USA
- People and Places
- Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present
- Modern Britain: c1700-Present
- Perceiving the Past
- The Shock of the Modern
- Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
- Becoming the Historical Researcher
- Global Cities
- Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times
- Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
- History in the Classroom
- Working with History: The Heritage Field Project
- World's End: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Environmental Crises