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BA History

Ulster University

Institution
Ulster University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA (Hons) History
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
V145
Typical offer
A-level CCC

Entry requirements

A level: CCC Applicants may satisfy the requirement for the final A level grade C by substituting a combination of alternative qualifications to the same standard as defined by the University.

About this course

BA (Hons) History examines the historical processes that have shaped modern society across Britain, Ireland, the United States, Russia, and the Middle East. Core topics include research methods, historical research, and ethics and professional practice. An optional study abroad year and an industrial placement with professional work experience are available between the second and final years. Students undertake a self-directed research project in the final year.

Modules

  • Making History: Skills for Historians
  • Defining America: Themes in American History, C17th -C20th
  • The Making of Modern Britain and Ireland, 1798-1998
  • The Ages of Extremes: International History 1914-2020
  • Disenchanted Land? Culture and Society in Early Modern Europe
  • Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1939
  • Employing History: Understanding the Past, Preparing for the Future
  • Exchange programme 1 - History Abroad
  • Family, Sexuality and the State 1850-1925
  • Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
  • War and Peace: the Ying and Yang of human history
  • The Great Powers and the Middle East since 1880
  • Film and the Vietnam Conflict
  • The Myth and Reality of Imperial Spain, 1492-1700
  • Death, Disease, and Medicine in Britain, 1800-1914
  • 'Good Trouble': Struggle, Resistance and the African American Experience
  • The Modern City, 1800-2000
  • History Abroad - DIAS
  • Industrial Placement - Diploma in Professional Practice (DPP)
  • The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
  • Late Soviet Communism, 1953-1991
  • United States Foreign Policy Since 1945
  • Saints and Sinners: Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland
  • Violence, death and disorder and the end of the European Empires.
  • America in the Depression, 1929-1941
  • Witchcraft and magic in early modern Europe and Colonial New England, c.1550-1780
  • The Northern Ireland Troubles
  • History Research Project