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BA History

Newcastle University

Institution
Newcastle University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V100
Typical offer
A-level AAB, IB 34

Entry requirements

A level: AAB IB: 34 points

About this course

BA Honours in History, covering periods from prehistory to the modern era. Core topics include Data Analysis and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students can take modules from subject areas including archaeology, classics, politics, philosophy, or a modern language at every stage of the degree. The course includes research projects and a module focused on developing a research proposal.

Modules

  • Evidence and Argument
  • Historical Sources and Methods
  • What is History For?
  • History Lab I
  • History Lab II
  • Introduction to Public History
  • Introduction to Archaeology
  • Prehistoric Britain
  • The Archaeology of Britain from the Romans to the 20th Century
  • The Roman World from Romulus to Trajan
  • Global Middle Ages
  • Stuff: living in a material world
  • Global Ancient Histories
  • Crafting History: Developing a Research Proposal
  • From Lascaux to Knossos: Prehistoric Europe
  • Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Diocletian
  • Colonial Worlds: History and Archaeology
  • Hellenistic Empires from Alexander to Cleopatra
  • The Roman World from Hadrian to Heraclius
  • Greek and Roman Religions
  • Slavery in Greco-Roman Antiquity
  • Sacred words and dirty deeds: Thriving in Late Antiquity
  • The Mediterranean: a connected past
  • Africa: History of a Continent
  • Oral History of Modern Britain
  • 1968: A Global Moment?
  • War, Wounds, and Disabilities in Global Perspectives
  • Famines in History
  • History and Film: Representing the Past
  • Researching History
  • Reformation and Revolution: Tudors to the Georgians
  • Destroying Nature: Disasters, Diseases and Environmental Injustice
  • Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History
  • Politics in Britain: National Life since 1945
  • Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: From Independence to the Mexican Revolution (1789/1810-1917)
  • Reading History
  • Writing History
  • Early Medieval Britain
  • Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
  • Early Prehistoric Europe: Origins and transformations
  • Fundamentals of Digital Humanities: Computer literacy, data analysis and GIS
  • Public History In Practice
  • The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923
  • Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1900
  • British Foreign Policy since Suez
  • Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Gender and the British Empire: Violence towards Men and Women in the Making of Modern South Asia
  • Lunatic to Citizen? Madness and Society since 1900
  • The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1961-1990
  • Buddhism and Society in Medieval Japan
  • The Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps - Origins, Experiences and Aftermaths
  • Nineteenth Century Aotearoa New Zealand: Maori, Pakeha & Tauiwi
  • War and Remembering: Recalling War in Oral Histories, c.1950-2022
  • May 1968: All Power to the Imagination
  • Fictional Histories: from medieval to modern
  • Exhausted! The problem of sleep (and not sleeping) from 1500 to the present day
  • Beyond Brexit: The UK and European Integration since 1945
  • Riot, Reform and Revolution: Britain c.1760-1832
  • Read All About It! The News Revolution in Georgian Britain, 1714-1800
  • Inter-American Relations from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Cold War (1989/1991)
  • Career Development for final year students
  • Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000