BA History and International Relations VLC2

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
This joint honours course enables you to address today's key issues and investigate their roots in the past. Explore both history and international relations and gain an understanding of how they influence one another.
Discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading. The History Department's expertise covers a wide and diverse range of regions, from Europe and Africa to America, South Asia and the Middle East. Module choices cover diverse periods and topics, from the Crusades to the 1960s, slavery in America to Tudor monarchy, and Cold War Berlin to medieval magic.
In your first year, your core courses will explore people, politics and revolution – finding out how people struggled for power in past societies – and the culture and concepts those societies developed. We will teach you the skills you need to study and research history through an individual project of your choice. This joint degree enables you to address contemporary issues and trace them back to their historical roots.
You will be taught in small interactive seminar groups, encouraging discussion and debate with teaching staff and fellow students. We place a great deal of importance on employability skills in both sides of your degree, and our modules "History education", "Discovering archives", and "Public history" all offer students short work placements and act as an introduction to career ideas.
By studying international relations, you will acquire a strong grounding in the fundamental elements of the subject such as political ideas and international relations theory. Your teaching staff have direct professional experience and act as policy advisers to the government as well as international bodies such as the EU and UN. You will have the opportunity to gain a broad overview of the subject through a wide range of specialist core and optional modules, which cover topical issues such as European...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • International
  • International Relations
  • Politics
  • Project
  • Government
  • Teaching
  • Staff
  • Democracy
  • Joint
  • Public
  • Magic

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Journeys through History 1 (People, power and revolution)
  • Journeys through History 2 (Culture, art and ideas)
  • Research Skills and Opportunities in History (individual project)
  • Introduction to Contemporary Democracy
  • Introduction to Political Ideas
  • Politics: International Relations and Strategic Studies

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Modern International Relations
Optional modules include:
  • Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
  • Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
  • Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
  • Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
  • Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
  • Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
  • Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
  • The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
  • Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
  • American Government and Politics
  • British Government and Politics
  • European Political Integration
  • Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
  • Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • Model United Nations
  • My Career: Working It Out
  • Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Women of the Medieval World
  • American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
  • Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
  • Victorian Britain
  • Political Thinking
  • Public History: Its Uses and Abuses
  • The Media and Politics
  • new Early Modern Period
  • ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Dissertation (either in History or in International Relations)
Optional modules include:
  • Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
  • From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
  • Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
  • Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
  • Intelligence, War and International Relations
  • Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
  • The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
  • War, Peace and International Ethics
  • Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
  • Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
  • British Foreign and Defence Policy since 1945
  • Contemporary Power Politics
  • Crime and Punishment:Theoretical Approaches
  • Democracy and Democracy Promotion
  • Discovering Archives and Collections
  • European Case Studies (3)
  • Feminism and Political Theory
  • France and Europe since 1945
  • Grand Strategy from classical Rome to modern China
  • History Education
  • International Terrorism
  • Introduction to Critical Security Studies
  • Ireland and the English in the middle ages
  • La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
  • Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
  • Nationalism
  • Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
  • Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
  • Politics of the International Economy
  • Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
  • Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
  • Strategic Theory
  • Strategy in the Two World Wars
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
  • The UN and International Order
  • The United States and the Cold War
  • Toleration: Theory and Practice
  • US Foreign and Defence Policy since 1950
  • United Kingdom Politics since 1960
  • Work Placement and Project

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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