BA History
Entry requirements
UCAS Tariff: 96 to 112 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.
About this course
BA (Hons) History, covering periods from the Middle Ages to the present across American, British, European, Middle Eastern and African contexts. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a study abroad semester at a partner university and culminates in an independent research project on a historical individual connected to a core theme.
Modules
- The Making of Contemporary Europe
- From Sea to Shining Sea: US History from 1776 to 2008
- Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1200-1720
- Making History
- Cultures, Empires and Ideas: Global Histories of Power and Ideology
- Modern British History: Themes and Debates
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Study Abroad (60 credit)
- Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960
- America in the 1960s
- Your Graduate Future
- Into the Dark Valley: Europe, 1919-1939
- The Holocaust
- Enlightenment to Empire: France in an Age of Revolution, 1715-1815
- Debating History
- Civilians and the Second World War
- Setting America Right: Conservatism in the United States, 1933 - 2016
- Divisive Pasts: Legacies of Conflict and Oppression in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Early Modern Monarchies: Power and Representation, 1500-1750
- Field Notes: Politics and Policy Making in Place
- Migration Nation: Britain’s History of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Race
- People Power before Democracy: The United Kingdom, 1790-1914
- People’s Histories: Independent Research Project
- Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Work Placement Year
- Humanities Study Abroad Year
- Red, White and Green: The American Environment Through Time
- The African American Freedom Struggle Since 1945
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Women, Crime and Subversion in Early Modern Europe
- Italian Fascism
- Sex and the City: Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- History Dissertation
- Holocaust Testimony and Cultural Memory
- Environmental disaster in modern Britain
- Nicaragua in Revolution, 1979-1990
- Russia Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Gorbachev to Putin, 1985-2008
- Dissertation with Public History
- From Grand Tours to Dirty Weekends: Travellers and Tourists in Britain, Ireland and Beyond
- Ending the British Empire, 1930 – now
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University