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BA History and Philosophy

Queen's University Belfast

Institution
Queen's University Belfast
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History and Philosophy
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
VV1M
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 33

Entry requirements

A level: ABB IB: 33 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level

About this course

BA in History and Philosophy. Core topics include Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Research Methods, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students are taught in small groups by academic staff from the first year of the degree and can choose modules covering periods ranging from the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages to the modern era.

Modules

  • Exploring History 1
  • Exploring History 2
  • Philosophy and Human Nature
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Philosophy and The Good Life
  • A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization
  • History and Historians: Contested Pasts
  • Introductory Logic
  • Revolutions
  • The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
  • Knowledge and Reality
  • Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
  • The American South 1619-1865
  • Ireland since partition
  • The American South, 1865-1980
  • Modern Political Thought
  • The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
  • The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
  • Moral Theories
  • The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
  • History of Philosophy
  • Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
  • Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
  • Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
  • Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
  • Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
  • Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Revolution and Disaster in Ireland and Britain 1603-1707
  • An Age of Revolutions: Britain and Ireland, 1688-1815
  • That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
  • The Soviet Union 1921-1991
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
  • Working Class Communities in the UK 1900-1970
  • Dissertation
  • United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants
  • Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe
  • Applied Ethics
  • Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
  • Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland
  • Philosophy for Children
  • Thatcher's Britain
  • Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
  • The Ancient City
  • Pop Culture and Protest in U.S. History
  • Twentieth-Century China
  • Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
  • Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
  • Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
  • Philosophy of Technology and Environment
  • War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
  • African and Irish Relations in the Americas