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BA History with Politics

University of Worcester

Institution
University of Worcester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History with Politics
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
VL22
Typical offer
A-level BCC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: Merit

About this course

BA (Hons) in History. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The programme offers a dissertation module, a research experience module for extended independent study, and a work experience module with placements at local archives, museums, and heritage organisations. Access to the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service and Cathedral libraries supports specialist research.

Modules

  • Westminster Politics
  • Ideology and conflict in Europe since 1789
  • Britain since the Reformation
  • Reconstructing the past: Academic, public and popular history
  • European Politics
  • 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
  • Global Politics
  • Dissertation
  • The good war: The USA and World War Two
  • The Atlantic slave trade and abolition
  • 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