BA History and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: AAA including an A in either History or Classical Civilisation IB: 36 points including 6 in History at Higher Level BTEC: DDD with an additional A Levels or equivalent qualification in History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
About this course
BA (Hons) History and Politics, a politics and international relations and history degree examining the interplay between historical developments and political structures. Core topics include Research Methods. The course spans three years of full-time study, incorporating a range of specialized historical periods and contemporary political systems. The first year establishes core foundations through compulsory modules such as Political Communities in World History, Political Analysis, Arguments and Analysis, Knowledge and Belief in World History, and Evidence and Methods, with additional optional choices available. Year two introduces Historical Thinking and Theories of the State as compulsory elements alongside a wide selection of optional modules covering diverse global and thematic topics. In the final year, students complete a dissertation in either history or politics, complemented by specialized options ranging from international politics to specific historical eras.
Modules
- Political Communities in World History
- Political Analysis
- Arguments and Analysis
- Knowledge and Belief in World History
- Evidence and Methods
- Introduction to Political Theory: The State, Liberty and Revolution
- Introduction to International Politics: Global Hierarchies and Global Order
- York Policy Lab
- Historical Thinking
- Theories of the State
- Things Fall Apart
- Politics of Development
- European Union Politics
- War and Peace
- IR Theory and Planet Politics
- The Politics of Gender
- Politics in the United Kingdom
- The Rising Powers
- Human Rights and Wrongs
- Research Design
- Empire and Cultural Exchange in Asia 1500-1700
- Black Radicalism
- Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
- Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
- Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
- Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
- Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
- Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
- Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
- Catherine the Great
- Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
- Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
- Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
- Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
- Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
- Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
- Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
- The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
- Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
- History Dissertation
- Politics Dissertation
- Africa and International Politics
- Constitutional and Territorial Ideologies in Britain and Ireland
- Contemporary Politics of South Asia
- Democracy and Emergency
- Development Paradigms
- Ethics and International Politics
- Gender, War and Militarism
- Governing the Global Economy
- Governmentality: Foucault and the Analytics of Power
- Green Politics
- International Crisis Diplomacy
- Political Psychology and Public Opinion
- Politics of Peace after Civil War
- The Global Food System
- "We, the People": Ideas of Democratic Representation
- Britain in a Changing Global Political Economy
- Ethnicity and Conflict
- From War to Peace? Statebuilding and Political Transition in Southeast Asia
- Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons
- Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
- Karl Marx
- Knowledge and Democracy
- Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict
- Regionalism in World Politics
- Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
- The European Far Right
- The Labour Party and Socialism
- The Politics of (Post-)Colonialism
- Empires
- Violence
- Animals
- Commemorations
- Travel
- Beauty
- Communisms
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
- Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
- The French Wars of Religion
- Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
- Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
- Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
- Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
- Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
- Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
- Mao and Maoism
- Reading and Writing in Medieval England
- Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
- Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
- Joan of Arc
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, & Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
- Black British History and Decolonisation