Education Studies and History BA (Hons)

Year 1

Core modules:

• 1944-88: The Acts
• Educational Reflections*
• Educators
• Principles in Education
• Literacies in Higher Education*
• Case Studies I: Sources and Approaches in History
• Case Studies II: Independent Study Project

* students take one of these modules as designated by the Programme

Optional modules

Two Introductory Study modules from a choice of:

• British Introductory Study: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066
• British Introductory Study: Britain in the Twentieth Century
• International Introductory Study: The United States
• International History Introductory Study: Early Modern Europe
• International Introductory Study: Europe 1300-1500
• British Introductory Study: English History 1272 - 1500
• International Introductory Study: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• British Introductory Study: Victorian Britain 1815-1914
• International Introductory Study: East Asia 1900 - present
• British Introductory Study: The Classical World 500-31BC
• British Introductory Study: Roman Britain
• British Introductory Study: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660
• International Introductory Study: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires 1783- 1997
• British Introductory Study: Barbarians, Byzantines, and Beyond (400-814CE)
• International Introductory Study: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange
• British Introductory Study: Uniting the Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837
• International Introductory Module: Europe in Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
• International Introductory Module: The Origins of Greek Civilisation: from the Aegean Bronze Age to Archaic Greece (XX-VII)
• International Introductory Module: Europe in the High Middle Ages (c.800 - c.1200)
• British Introductory Module: Seventeenth Century England
• International Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001

Year 2

Core modules:

• Education: Social and Political Thought
• Education: Social and Political Thought (2)
• Past Historians and Current Practice
• Independent Study Module

One Theme Study module from a choice of:

• Age of Discovery
• American Slavery
• Early Medieval Kingship
• Women in History
• Soviet Communism
• Reactions to Poverty
• The Normans and their Worlds
• The Crusades
• The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700
• 'Subordinate Independence': Japan's Relationship with the US 1945-present
• Medieval Movies: Cinematic Depictions of the Middle Ages
• Exploring Past Localities
• The History of Rock and Roll
• Sport and Athletics in the Ancient World
• Genocide: Mass Violence and the Making and Breaking of Empire
• The Age of the Vikings
• The Renaissance Court: Power. Politics and Patronage
• Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914
• Food and Drink in Medieval and Early Modern England
• Anti-Imperialism
• Societies at War - England and France, 1189-1529
• Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Culture, Society and Economy in Early Modern England
• The Roman Household
• Classical World on Film
• Neoplatonism from Classical World to the Renaissance
• The Atlantic World, C.1700-1850
• War As A Life Experience (18th-20th Centuries)
• History's Eye - Photography And Conflict, Ethnography And Society
• The Reign of King John
• Dreams and Nightmares: Britain in 20th Century Europe

One Civilisation Study module from a choice of:

• France in the Age of Louis XIV
• The American South 1865-1970
• The Carolingian Renaissance
• Late Medieval Civilisation
• The Third Reich
• Victorian Culture and Society
• Imperial Japan
• From Austerity to Affluence: Post-war Britain
• The Golden Age of Spain
• Culture and Society in the Early Roman Empire 27BC- AD180
• Edwardian Britain
• Church and State in Late Anglo-Saxon England
• Culture and Society in 5th Century Athens
• Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485- 1558
• English Monasticism
• La Serenissima: Renaissance Venice 1450-1650
• Georgian England
• The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204
• Nazism and the Holocaust
• The British Raj, from the 'Indian Mutiny' to Gandhi - 1857- 1947
• The Global Hispanic World (1760s-1960s)
• From Slavery To Freedom: The Caribbean 1763-1838
• Byzantium In The Age Of Justinian And Theodora (527- 565CE)
• England And Normandy In The Long Twelfth Century

Other optional modules:

• Volunteering Placement/Field Trip (available instead of the Theme Study or Civilisation Study)

Year 3

Core modules:

• Research Methods (if Dissertation is in History)

Or

• Dissertation in Education Studies
• Dissertation in History

Study paired module from a choice of:

• America 1919-1941
• The Hundred Years' War 1337-1453
• Alfred the Great
• The Wars of the Roses 1450-1499
• Civil War and Revolution in the British Isles
• The French Revolution 1786-1795
• The United States and the Cold War 1945-63
• Japan in War and Occupation 1937-52
• The Home Front: Britain 1939-1945
• The Holocaust in History and Memory
• Society, Culture and Everyday Life in Russia: 1928-1985
• The Norman Conquest
• Interwar Britain
• The French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
• The Pax Romana
• The Italian Wars 1494-1516 and 1521-1559
• Iberia in the Reign of Isabel and Ferdinand 1469-1492 and 1492-1516
• The Henrician& Edwardian Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation
• Life in Early Modern London
• The French in North Africa: The Maghreb, 1830-1914 and North Africa and France: The Maghreb, 1914-present
• Genocide in History and Memory I and II
• The Carolingians: Charlemagne & Louis the Pious
• The Ancient Greeks: War and Honour I & II
• 'The Flag That Sets Us Free'? Britain, Empire and Anti-Slavery, 1787-1838 and 1838-1956
• The Age of Speed: Time, Travel and the Media I (18th-19thc.) and II (19th-20thc)
• Urban Life in Medieval Italy, 500-950CE and 950-1200CE
• Ruling England in the Second Viking Age, Part I: Kingdoms Lost and Won and Part II: Political Cultures
• The Medieval Life Cycle: Youth and Age#

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.