Modern and contemporary history ba (hons)

Queen Mary University of London
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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Teaching
Teaching and learning
For each module you’ll usually receive two hours of weekly contact time, typically comprising a one-hour lecture followed by a one-hour seminar.
Formal teaching is supplemented by one-to-one discussions in staff office hours and feedback sessions.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further two to three hours of independent study. This time is spent reading, preparing for study sessions, working on projects and revising for exams.
Assessment
Assessment typically involves a combination of examinations and coursework, or coursework only. Coursework may include essays, diaries, case-studies and oral presentations.
In your final year you’ll work on a dissertation worth 25% of your final year mark, researching a specialised area of history that particularly interests you.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent resources to aid your studies, including:
membership of the Queen Mary Library, the University of London Library at Senate House, and reading access to other college libraries within the University of London
a vibrant History Society
the Queen Mary History Journal, a major scholarly publication stocked by the British Library, which is written, produced and edited entirely by students
a central London location that offers ready access to a wealth of world-class libraries, archives, museums and galleries
opportunities to attend Public History Unit Lectures.

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London
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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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Subjects

  • University
  • Global
  • Teaching
  • Access
  • Government
  • Modern Contemporary

Course programme

Structure

You can complete your Modern and Contemporary History degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Year 1 Compulsory

  • Europe in a Global Context since 1800
  • History in Practice
  • Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
Choose from
  • Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
  • Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
  • Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
  • Life and Death in the Victorian Home
  • Race and the Desire for Difference
  • Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
  • Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
  • The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
  • The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Choose from over 50 modules, including

  • A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890-1990
  • Architecture in London II 1837 - to the Present
  • British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
  • Madness and Medicine in Modern Britain
  • Race in the United States: Slavery to Civil Rights
  • The Clinton Years
  • Winning on the Western Front: the British Army 1914-1919

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

History special subject and dissertation module in one of 15+ subjects, which may include

  • Making Thatcher's Britain: the Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
  • The French Civil 1934-1944
  • The 'Heart of Darkness'? Identity, Power, and Politics in the Congo c.1870-2010
  • The Kennedy Years
  • The War on Terror
  • We the People: Democracy in America 1787-1861

Choose from over 50 modules, including
  • A History of Terror in the Modern Age 1858-2008
  • Alfred Hitchcock and the New Film History
  • Gotham: the Making of New York City 1825-2001
  • Modern Art, 1900-1950
  • The British Empire in Political Thought from the 18th century to the 20th century
  • The Germans and the Jews since 1871
  • The Supernatural in Modern Britain

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Modern and Contemporary History BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

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