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BA History

University of Worcester

Institution
University of Worcester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V100
Typical offer
A-level BBC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points: 112 A-level: BBC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: Merit

About this course

BA (Hons) History, combining the study of British, European, and world history. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The course includes a work placement module with placements in archives, museums, or heritage settings, and a final-year dissertation. Teaching takes place in small, informal groups.

Modules

  • Ideology and conflict in Europe since 1789
  • Britain since the Reformation
  • Reconstructing the past: Academic, public and popular history
  • Making of the modern world
  • Optional modules offered by the Centre for Academic English and Skills/Institute of Education
  • Historical research: Method and practice
  • The American century, 1917-2001
  • The German empire, 1862-1918
  • History work experience module
  • The Making of Modern Ireland: Conflict, Revolution and Partition
  • 'A people's war'? Britain and the Second World War
  • Georgian Britain and the Atlantic world, 1760-1820
  • Protest and Power: Activism in Modern Britain
  • Optional modules offered by the Centre for Academic English and Skills/Institute of Education
  • Dissertation
  • The Atlantic slave trade and abolition
  • The good war: The USA and World War Two
  • Nazi Germany
  • Research experience module
  • Blood and Oil: Iraq since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
  • Gender, sexuality and welfare: The body in history
  • Witchcraft and the Devil
  • Japan's world, 1854-1951