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BA American Studies and History,

Swansea University

Institution
Swansea University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
American Studies and History, BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
VT17

About this course

BA in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing and History. Core topics include research methods. Students select from modules spanning American culture, British history and European studies. The programme includes a history work placement and offers a study-abroad semester or full year in North America.

Modules

  • Locating American Studies
  • Who Sings America? Literature and Culture of the United States
  • Forging a Nation: US History and Politics
  • From Facts to Fake News: Being a Historian in the Twenty-First Century
  • O Ffeithiau i Newyddion Ffug: Bod yn Hanesydd yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain
  • Global Challenges and the Historian
  • Heriau Byd-eang a'r Hanesydd
  • Making Modern Europe, 1789 to the Present
  • Creu Ewrop Fodern, 1789 hyd y Presennol
  • The Practice of History
  • Europe 1500-1650: Renaissance, Reformation and Religious War
  • Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain
  • The Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1225
  • The Past in the Present: Exploring Heritage Practice and Debates
  • Medicine and the Modern World, 1800 to the Present
  • Britain in the Early Middle Ages: Slavery, Dragons, Queens and Vikings
  • History Work Placement
  • The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire
  • The Global First World War
  • America in a Nutshell: A History of Pennsylvania from William Penn to Donald Trump, 1631-2016
  • The Making of Transatlantic America
  • Race and Ethnicity: American Perspectives
  • Rhyfel Cartref America
  • America in Crisis: From the Tet Offensive to Trump
  • Re-Thinking the South: Southern Culture and History, 1865-1955
  • American Word / American Image
  • The Story of America on Film and Television, 1607-1867
  • Stori America Ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1607-1867
  • History Dissertation
  • Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval
  • The Russian Civil War
  • The Lights that Failed: the League of Nations and International Peace 1919 -1939
  • The Hungry World: Food, Famine and the End of Empire, 1880-1945
  • The Placing of History: Digitally Mapping the Historic Past
  • From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and Society in Western Political Thought
  • The Reign of King John, 1199-1216: Misrule and Magna Carta
  • The First Crusade: Devotion, Piety and Power in the Latin Christian World
  • A History of Sex and Gender
  • The Rise and Fall of Wales? Politics, Culture and Society, 1847-1939
  • African American Literature 1910-1940: The Harlem Renaissance
  • The Story of the USA on Film and Television, 1865-2008
  • Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
  • Clear and Present Danger: America and Terrorism
  • The American Civil War in History and Memory
  • The Cold War
  • America and the Bomb
  • American Studies Dissertation