BA History V100

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
Take a journey through time from Crusading in the High Middle Ages to Anarchy in the UK. Complement your learning with a study abroad option and improve your employability with our exciting work placements.
Discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading, including Britain, Europe, Russia, Africa, America, the Middle East and South Asia. Your first year acts as an introduction and helps you identify your particular areas of interest. You will explore people, politics and revolution, and culture and concepts. We will teach you the skills you need to study and research history, and you will start to shape your own degree through your choice of optional modules.
History is a highly flexible degree, with a wide range of options to choose from. You can immerse yourself in modules covering subjects such as Medieval magic, witchcraft and heresy; fascism and communism; gender and culture; and politics and colonialism.
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, and our modules "History education", "Discovering archives" and "Public history" all offer you short work placements and act as an introduction to career ideas.
Field trips in the UK and abroad give you the opportunity to see history in context, for example at Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire, Winchester, Westminster, and further afield in Paris and Berlin. Additionally, you can choose to spend a term in your second year at one of our partner universities in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. We encourage all our students to take up this opportunity as it can open your eyes to new areas of history and build your confidence and skills.
Placement
Placements are a prominent feature of our degree courses and highly encouraged. Through our links with the Careers,...

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Location

Start date

Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Magic
  • Employability
  • Public

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)
Optional modules include:
  • Past and Present
  • Texts and Contexts
  • Ideas and Ideologies
  • Optional modules in Archaeology, Ancient History, Politics, or other subjects

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
  • My Career: Working It Out
  • Public History: Its Uses and Abuses
Optional modules include:
  • Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
  • 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
  • Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • 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
  • ‘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 in History
Optional modules include:

Topics

  • 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
  • Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
  • The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
  • Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
  • Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
  • Discovering Archives and Collections
  • European Case Studies (3)
  • France and Europe since 1945
  • History Education
  • Ireland and the English in the middle ages
  • La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
  • Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
  • Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
  • Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
  • The United States and the Cold War

Special subjects

  • Cold War Berlin: Politics and Culture in a Divided City, 1945-65
  • Cults and Miracles; the Powers of Sanctity, 1066-1215
  • Deviance and Discipline: Church and Outcasts in the Central Middle Ages
  • From Louis the Fat to Louis the Saint: The Image of Kingship in Capetian France
  • Making Revolution: Russia, 1905-1929
  • Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe
  • Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe
  • Slavery in America
  • The Countryside in English Culture, c.1750-1939
  • The Interregnum in Britain and Ireland, 1649-1660
  • The Last Super Power and the New World Power: the United States and China in the Historical Context
  • Victorian Lives

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

BA History V100

£ 9,250 + VAT