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BA History

University College London

Institution
University College London
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V100
Typical offer
A-level AAA, IB 38

Entry requirements

A level: AAA (History required.) IB: 38 points (A total of 18 points in three higher level subjects including grade 6 in History, with no higher level score below 5.)

About this course

BA in History, a history degree focused on the study of past societies across various chronological periods and geographical regions. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete three academic years of study, culminating in a mandatory independent research project. The first year introduces foundational disciplinary skills through compulsory modules such as Approaching History, Writing History, and Making History, alongside a wide variety of optional historical periods. The second year advances investigative techniques with the Second-Year Research Seminar, paired with optional study areas ranging from Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality? to The Cultural Cold War. The final year centres on the History Undergraduate Dissertation, supported by specialist optional modules like Cultures of War in Ancient Greece and Slavery in the Classical World.

Modules

  • Approaching History
  • Writing History
  • Making History
  • Making Medieval Europe 1150 - 1350
  • History of the Modern Middle East
  • The History of Political Thought in the West
  • The Mediterranean World c.800-c.500 BC
  • The Roman Republic, c.350 BC - 44 BC
  • Bronze Age States in the Ancient Middle East
  • British History c.1850-1997
  • Age of Revolution: European History 1815-1870
  • History of Latin America c.1830-c.1930
  • The Global Economy since 1700
  • Second-Year Research Seminar
  • Roman Democracy: Myth or Reality?
  • Asia and Europe: Imagining the world in ancient Greece
  • Rome AD 300-1000. Portraits of a City, Reflections of a Changing World
  • Making Medieval Europe 1150 - 1350
  • Religious Reformation and Popular Piety, 1450-1650
  • War, Rebellion, and Social Discontent in Modern China
  • Superpower: A Global History of the United States, 1898-1989
  • The Cultural Cold War
  • The Disunited States: Contested Visions of America, 1775-1860
  • History of the Modern Middle East
  • History Undergraduate Dissertation
  • Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970
  • Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century
  • Cultures of War in Ancient Greece
  • Between Order and Disorder: Cities in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World
  • Great Britain and the American Colonies 1760-1776 (1)
  • The Crisis of the Union: The United States in the Civil War era, 1850-1865
  • Antipodean Encounters: Aborigines, Convicts and Settlers in New South Wales, c.1770-1850
  • Soul and Body in Renaissance Thought
  • Untold Stories: Constructing Lives, Narratives and Experiences in Wartime East Asia
  • Slavery in the Classical World