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BA Modern History and Politics

University of Lincoln

Institution
University of Lincoln
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA (Hons) Modern History and Politics
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
VL12
Typical offer
A-level BCC, IB 29

Entry requirements

A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.

About this course

BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History, combining political analysis with historical study across the modern era. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Global & Comparative Perspective, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship. The degree spans three years and culminates in an independent study dissertation, for which students receive dedicated research and project management preparation. Modules cover areas such as comparative politics, empires, gender and sexuality, migration, and nationalism.

Modules

  • Forging the Modern State
  • People, Power and Politics
  • Skills for Social and Political Sciences
  • The Historian’s Craft
  • The Modern World: People and Global Change
  • A History of Now
  • Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
  • Comparative Politics in the 21st Century
  • Empires: Power and Resistance
  • Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
  • Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
  • Decolonising the Past
  • Designing your Independent Study
  • Digital Heritage
  • Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
  • Gender and Sexuality in Britain 1700-1950
  • Governing America
  • Humanities in Action
  • Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
  • Material Histories: Objects, Interpretation, Display
  • Nations and Nationalism
  • People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
  • Political Parties
  • Power, Sex and Sexuality
  • Queering the Past
  • Sport and Society in the Modern World
  • Study Period Abroad: History
  • Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
  • The Global Cold War
  • The Vigilant State: intelligence and national security
  • Thinking International Relations
  • Thinking Politics
  • Transnational Security Studies
  • Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
  • Working in Politics and International Relations
  • Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
  • Body Politics
  • Central Asia in Global Politics
  • Eugenics, Race and Reproduction across the Atlantic, 1800-1945
  • Exhibiting the World in the Nineteenth Century
  • Fallout Nation: The United States and the Nuclear Age
  • History Independent Study Part 2
  • History Independent Study Part I
  • Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
  • Humanities Work Placement
  • International Relations of the Middle East
  • Masculinity, Gender and Power
  • Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
  • Migration and Borders in the UK and Europe
  • Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
  • Parliamentary Studies
  • Politics and its Discontents
  • Queering the Past - Level 3
  • Race and Racism
  • Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice - level 3
  • The City and the Citizen: urban space and the shaping of modern life, 1850 to present.
  • The Internet: A Social and Cultural History
  • The US Civil Rights Movement
  • Un/freedoms in Caribbean Colonial Societies
  • War Crimes and Genocide