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BA Modern History

University of Lincoln

Institution
University of Lincoln
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA (Hons) Modern History
UCAS code
V200
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 29

Entry requirements

A level: BBC IB: 29 points overall

About this course

BA (Hons) in History, tracing the major political, social, and cultural shifts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Core topics include Historical Research, Policy Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, Project Management, and Research Methods. The course offers an optional industry placement year and includes a supervised independent study dissertation in the final year.

Modules

  • The Modern World: People and Global Change
  • A History of Now
  • Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
  • Empires: Power and Resistance
  • Forging the Modern State
  • Humanities in a Digital World
  • The Historian’s Craft
  • The Past in Public: Lincoln's History
  • Designing your Independent Study
  • Humanities in Action
  • Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
  • Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
  • Collections Care and Management
  • Decolonising the Past
  • Digital Heritage
  • Environmental Philosophy
  • Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
  • Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
  • Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
  • Industry Placement
  • Making and Meaning; History through Objects
  • Material Histories: Objects, Interpretation, Display
  • Moral Philosophy
  • People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
  • Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Perversion
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
  • Playing the Past: History and Videogames
  • Power and the Presidency in the United States
  • Queering the Past
  • Screen Cultures in History: From the BBFC to BTS
  • 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 Global Renaissance
  • Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
  • Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
  • History Independent Study Part 2
  • History Independent Study Part I
  • Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
  • Consuming Societies: Western Europe 1600-1800
  • Environmental Philosophy
  • 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
  • Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
  • Humanities Work Placement
  • Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
  • Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
  • Philosophy of Love, Sex and Perversion
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
  • Queer Film and Television
  • Queering the Past - Level 3
  • 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