History (BA): 3-year, full-time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
Our undergraduate BA History degree offers you a huge range of history modules, stretching around the world and across thousands of years. The degree combines this wide choice with a carefully structured framework which will help you to build your skills as a historian year on year.
Our expertise underpins our teaching. We are one of the very few history departments in the UK to include archaeologists, classicists and historians working on every period from prehistoric humans to Ancient Greece to medieval, early modern and modern societies. Our expertise encompasses much of the globe, with over 40 specialists in, for example, Ancient Rome, medieval Byzantium, colonial India and modern China, as well as Tudor London, Nazi Germany, and much more. You will be able to pursue interests in British, European and global history, and explore themes within histories of ‘race’, migration, gender and sexuality.
The BA History gives you the opportunity to acquire analytical skills and critical approaches that will enable you to assess historical evidence for yourself and question accepted wisdom about the past. You will enhance your career prospects by developing the ability to formulate and communicate your own ideas effectively. We help you to develop these skills systematically through three 'How to' modules which form the backbone of the degree. For these modules you will join other students and experienced historians to explore the study of the past together.
‘The historian's task is not simply to discover the past but to explain it, and in doing so to provide a link with the present.’ (Professor Eric Hobsbawm, former Birkbeck historian)
This history course is also available for part-time evening study over four years.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in education, research and journalism. This degree may also be useful in becoming a heritage manager, museum/gallery curator, higher education lecturer or archivist.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
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Subjects
- Writing
- Politics
- Archaeology
- European History
- Global
- Full Time
- Social Change
- American History
- British Empire
- Historiography
- Christianity
Course programme
Our new survey course options range from the ancient to the contemporary world and will introduce you to the key themes you need to know about when studying the past. In keeping with our tradition of teaching an impressive chronological breadth within one department, these modules cover the time from prehistory to the present, moving across continents and cultures.
In parallel with these cutting-edge surveys, we offer a range of compulsory 'How to' modules which bring you together with academic staff to explore the study of the past and develop the skills needed to research and write history. Every year, as you build your studies and progress towards your degree, you will take one of these courses, helping you to develop your own unique perspective on the past.
Both the survey courses and our ‘How to’ courses run annually so that it doesn't matter whether you study part-time or full-time with us - you will be able to make the most of them.
The programme offers a wide choice of subjects and approaches within a structured framework. You will make use of specialised historical literature and sources, and be trained in historical argument and techniques. To complete the degree, you will research and write a dissertation.
In Year 1, you take a compulsory module and three Level 4 option modules.
In Year 2, you take a compulsory module and three Level 5 option modules.
In Year 3, you take two Level 6 option modules and write a dissertation.
YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULE- Approaching the Past
- Exploring the Past
- Writing the Past: Dissertation
- Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
- The Ancient World
- The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
- The Contemporary World
- The Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Reformations and Revolutions
- The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans
- The Modern World
- Archaeology of the Everyday
- Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
- Being Good in the Modern Age - From Enlightenment to Environmentalism
- Between God and Rome: the Byzantine Empire 307-1453 (level 5)
- Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World
- Contested Nation: Germany, 1871-1918 (level 5)
- Crossing Borders: Passports, Bodies and the State, 1600 to Today
- Empires: Conquest and Decolonisation, from 1700 to Brexit
- From Ancient to Medieval Societies, Third to Eleventh Centuries
- Greek and Roman Political Thought in Context
- Italy and the World: Conflict and the Incomplete Nation, 1815-present
- Journeys to the Underworld in Classical Literature and Culture
- London 1600-2000: people and power in the making of a global city
- Political and Social Change in the Middle East since 1918 (level 5)
- Space, Architecture and Landscapes of the Middle Ages
- The Archaeology of the Roman Empire
- The Reconstruction of Europe, 1945-1950 (level 5)
- The Renaissance in Italy and Europe: From the Black Death to the Reformations (c.1350-1600)
- Work and Play in Early Modern Britain (level 5)
- A sense of space: travellers and maps in the pre-modern world
- Blood and Faith: Violence, Religion and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- Crime, Poverty and Protest in England and Beyond, 1500-1800
- Failed states? Category and critique, AD 0-present in Europe, Asia, Africa
- Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918
- Late Medieval and Early Modern London: Community, Politics and Religion
- Literature, Culture and Society 1914-1945
- Medicine and Power in Modern Africa
- Sexuality, Society and the State in Britain, 1914-2000
- The Athenian Empire
- The Colonial Gaze: Western Perceptions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1600-1960
- The Empire of Letters: Correspondence in the Roman World
- The Third Reich
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FEES
Full-time home students: £ 9250 pa
Full-time international students: £ 14280 pa
History (BA): 3-year, full-time