BA Ancient History and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including History or a humanities-based essay subject Humanities-based essay subjects include: Classical Civilisation, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in History or a humanities-based essay subject
About this course
BA in History and Classics. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The degree spans ancient Greece through to Cold War Britain and offers optional language study from ten languages offered by the University.
Modules
- Greek History: War, Society and Change in the Archaic Age
- Perspectives in History
- Roman History: The Rise and Fall of the Republic
- Making History and You: Practices and Possibilities
- Rape in the United States: From Colonisation to Civil Rights
- Warfare in Early Modern Europe, c.1500-1715
- Doomsday Dystopias: Nuclear Disaster in the Cold War Imagination
- Merlin the Magician
- Ancient Song
- Latin 1-3
- Ancient Greek 1-3
- US Environmental Diplomacy from Nixon to Obama
- After Malthus: Sex, Society, Sustainability and the Politics of Population in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Presenting the Past: An Introduction to Museum Studies
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules
- Greek History: Persian Wars to Alexander
- Ancient Epic
- Greek Sculpture and Architecture
- My Mother's Sin and Other Stories
- Latin 1-4
- Ancient Greek 1-4
- Careers for Classicists and Ancient Historians
- Careers for Classicists and Ancient Historians with Placement
- Roman History: From Republic to Empire
- Ancient Drama
- Going Public: Presenting the Past, Planning the Future
- People, Power and Revolution: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
- 'The Brightest Jewel in the British Crown’: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
- Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Reform and Revolt in the Modern Middle East: Egypt from Ataturk to the ‘Arab Spring’
- Hollywood Histories: Film and the Past
- American Century: United States History since 1898
- Preparing for your Dissertation
- Encountering the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
- Women and Medieval History
- The Colonial Experience: Africa Since 1879
- Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-war United Kingdom
- Curatorship and Collections Management
- Medieval Medicine
- Museum Learning and Engagement
- The Crusades, 1095-1291
- Medieval Europe: Power, Religion and Death
- From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Social History of the Nineteenth-Century USA
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules
- Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
- Dissertation in Classics
- Independent Project in Classics
- Dissertation in History
- Latin 1-6
- Ancient Greek 1-6
- ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
- From Classroom to Courtroom: Mastering the Art of Persuasion in the Ancient World
- Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
- Battleaxes and Benchwarmers': Early Female MPs 1919-1931
- History Education
- Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
- From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and Eugenics in European Society, 1859-1945
- The American Civil War
- Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World
- Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain 1800-2016
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Empire, Slavery, and Society, 1550-1750
- The United States and the Cold War
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules