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History

Employers will welcome your analytical and problem- solving skills and your flexible approach to learning.

For more information about this course please visit the School of Humanities and Cultural Industries website.

Course Structure and Content

You will gain knowledge and skills of vital importance to the understanding of people's lives, beliefs and problems in the present day.

You can select the modules which most interest you in terms of places, periods and themes such as social, political, cultural and religious.

Considerable emphasis is placed on the study of historical sources.

Year 1

• English Local History;
• Georgian Bath;
• History and Heritage;
• The Making of America, 1776-1852;
• Imperialism, Nationalism and Racism;
• Medieval Worlds;
• Family, Sex and Marriage in Tudor and Stuart England;
• The Age of the People: Modern Europe
• Conquest, Famine and Cultural Revival in Ireland;
• The Dream Machine: History and Cinema;
• Changing Histories*.

Year 2

• Heritage in Practice;
• The Emergence of Modern Asia;
• Victorian Britain;
• Perspectives on War, 1800-1982;
• The European Reformations;
• Plots and Propaganda: Early Modern Monarchy, 1558-1649;
• Britain Between the Wars, 1918- 1942;
• Sex, Politics and Corruption in the 18th Century;
• The Great War: Conflict and Society;
• Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1820;
• Making History: Theory, Methods and Sources*;
• Emigrants or Exiles: The Irish in Britain since 1815;
• The Third Reich;
• Back to the Future: Science Fiction and Society;
• Empire;
• The Occult in History: Magic, Astrology and Religion;
• Sport and the Modern World;
• Employability*.

Year 3

• The American West;
• George Orwell;
• Court Culture in Restoration England;
• The English Republic;
• History Dissertation*
• Consensus, Conflict and Social Change, 1942-1995
• The Muslim World in the Twentieth Century;
• Rex Pacificus: England and Spain, 1603-25;
• Art, Politics and Society in the Reign of Louis XIV;
• The Sixties;
• Women, Culture and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain;
• Bittersweet Liberty: The Irish in the New World;
• 'A Troubled History': Northern Ireland Since 1922;
• Leisure, Pleasure and Consumption in Britain.

* Compulsory for Single Honours.

Teaching Methods and Resources

Modules are taught by a mixture of lectures (setting out the broad themes and issues), seminars (including student presentations, group-work, computer assisted sessions and documentary or audio-visual work) and one-to-one tutorials. There are also educational visits, such as trips to London and Dublin, as well as to nearby locations. Exchanges with American and European universities are also possible.

Assessment Methods

Years 1 and 2

30% seminar; 40% essays and reports; 30% special assignment.

Year 3

50% essay, 50% research projects.

Entry Requirements

240-280 UCAS Tariff points (eg BCC; BB+AS a).

Alternative qualifications welcome.