BA Contemporary History and Politics
Entry requirements
GCSE: English Language at grade C/level 4 or above (or equivalent) is required. You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements as well as one of the requirements listed below. UCAS tariff: 104 UCAS points. A level: 104 UCAS points. T level: Merit BTEC: DMM Access to HE: Pass Level 3 Access to HE Diploma with 104 UCAS points. Scottish Highers: 104 UCAS points. Irish Leaving Certificate: 104 UCAS points. IB: 30 points. European Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma with 71% overall.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History, covering modern history and political decision-making. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course includes a 12,000-word research dissertation in the final year. Optional work-based learning placements in the final semester may be undertaken in local archives, museums, or with MPs.
Modules
- Making Public History
- The Cold War
- International History I
- International History II
- International Politics II
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Theories of Power and Domination
- Age of Revolution: International History 1775 - 1914
- Researching in Politics
- Researching in History
- Political Communication: Media and Democracy
- Regimes and Dictatorships from 1918
- US Political History
- Commemoration and Memorialisation from the Twentieth Century to the Present
- Intelligence, Security and Politics in Britain 1909-94
- US Foreign Policy Since 1945
- Dissertation
- Britain and the European Resistance 1939-45
- Chinese Foreign Policy Since 1949
- Corruption in Contemporary Politics
- Intelligence in Practice Since 1945
- International Political Economy
- American Conflict in History and Memory
- Politics and Contemporary History Placement
- Photography and Conflict in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Social media and politics: digital democracy
- The First World War
- Threats to Democracy