BA History, Politics and Economics
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (Any three subjects from Economics, History, Mathematics and Politics preferred.) IB: 38 points (A total of 18 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5. Any three higher level subjects from Economics, History, Mathematics and Politics preferred. The course will accept either ‘Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches’ or ‘Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation’ at higher level.)
About this course
BA in History, Politics and Economics, an economics and politics and international relations and history degree examining the past and present societies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The three academic years duration allows students to spend an optional year abroad at a partner university. The first year covers the foundations through Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Introduction to Politics and Understanding Politics and Society. The second year offers various optional modules examining regional history and politics such as A Global History of Socialist Ideas, 1800-1980 and The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. The third year includes the compulsory module The Crisis of 1989 and the New Global Revolutions. Optional modules in the final year range from Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Twentieth Century Europe to Monarchs and the Enlightenment in Russia and Central Europe: Dissertation.
Modules
- Frontiers of History II
- Frontiers of History 1
- Introduction to Microeconomics
- Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Introduction to Politics
- Understanding Politics and Society
- History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918
- History of Russia 1598-1856
- History of Modern Germany 1815-1990
- Literature and Memory
- Modern Historiography
- Russian Short Fiction from Romanticism to Postmodernism
- Representations of Russia
- Russian and Soviet Cinema: History, Ideology, Society
- Introduction to Russian Studies I
- Introduction to Russian Studies II
- Crown Church and Estates in Central Europe 1500-1700
- Successors to the Habsburgs: East-Central Europe, 1914-1945
- Poland and Lithuania Transformed, 1569-1923
- Media, Culture and Society in the Soviet Union from Stalin to 1991
- History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918
- History of Russia 1598-1856
- History of Modern Germany 1815-1990
- The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
- A Global History of Socialist Ideas, 1800-1980
- History of the Soviet Union
- The Crisis of 1989 and the New Global Revolutions
- Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970
- Czechoslovakia in the Age of Extremes, 1918-1993
- Broadcasting Modernity: A Global History of Radio and Television in the Twentieth Century
- Monarchs and the Enlightenment in Russia and Central Europe I
- Fascism and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe ,1918-1945
- The Balkans from Empires to Nation-States
- The Age of Extremes in the Balkans
- Society and Politics in Late Imperial Russia
- Monarchs and the Enlightenment in Russia and Central Europe: Dissertation
- Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Twentieth Century Europe