History with French, Mandarin or Spanish BA (Hons)

• Presenting and Re-Presenting the Past
• The Making of the Modern World
• Twentieth Century Europe
• Language module

Students choose three year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.

• Language module (compulsory)
• British India 1857–1947
• Germany in World War Two (half-year option)
• History and the Workplace
• Histories of the Global South
• Mass Observing Britain in War and Peace, 1936-1951 (half-year option)
• Sport in 20th Century Britain (half-year option)
• The Cold War
• The Historian’s Craft: Sources and Methods in History (Compulsory for joint honours students wishing to do a History dissertation in third year).
• Visualising the Modern World 1860-1950 (half-year option)

Students choose three year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.

• Language module (compulsory)
• Borders and Boundaries: Legacies of Colonial Rule: India and Pakistan since 1947
• Dissertation
• Environment and Society in the Americas (half-year option)
• Jews in Twentieth Century Britain (half-year option)
• Photography and Conflict (half-year option)
• Textual Studies Using Computers
• The Olympics (half-year option)
• US Presidency
• Yugoslavia and Beyond

Our teaching is interactive, informal and enjoyable. We encourage you to develop your own thoughts, ideas and viewpoints and you will build the skills you need to be effective in both historical study and the modern workplace.

The modules are all designed to improve your skills as an effective historian from analysis and research to reasoning and evaluation. They are also constructed to help you develop aptitudes and characteristics that will improve your employability such as initiative, teamwork and communication.

You will be taught by experts in their field, the people who are writing the books you are reading. Our history staff are renowned nationally and internationally for the quality of their teaching and research.

We work hard to ensure that the student experience is lively, dynamic and stimulating, and regular guest lecturers and speakers address both curriculum-related topics and topics of broader historical interest.

The curriculum for History at DMU is diverse, international in focus and innovative. We use a mixture of year-long and half-year modules to allow students to broaden out their studies and to experience a variety of different teaching methods, module structures and assessment patterns.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 27 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.