BA History (V100)

University of Bristol

Bachelor's degree

In Bristol

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

About BA History
We place particular emphasis on undergraduate research. At Bristol, students 'do' history as well as read history through a mix of core units and a wide choice of primary source-based optional units. You will undertake one substantial piece of independent research each year, culminating in a final-year dissertation.
In the first year you will study themes that you may not have encountered at A-level: medieval, early modern and imperial history. After this, you will pursue your own pathway through the degree, choosing from a wide range of thematic and research-oriented units.
In recent years topics have included:
Science and the Supernatural
NGOs and Humanitarianism Since 1945
Drink and Disorder in Early Modern England
Sixties America and its Aftermath
You also have the opportunity to study abroad during your second year. Recent destinations have included Australia, Europe, and the United States.

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Bristol (Avon)
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Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TH

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Course programme

Year 1 (2019/20)
  • The Early Modern World
  • The Modern World
  • Approaching the Past
  • The Medieval World
  • The American Century
  • War and Society
  • Slavery
  • Cities
  • Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units

Year 2 (2019/20)
  • Rethinking History
  • Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response)
  • Drink: a History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response)
  • Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response)
  • The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • History in Public
  • After Empire (Level I Special Field)
  • Calamities: Natural and Unnatural Disasters in the Modern World (Level I Special Field)
  • From Washington to Waco: Explorations in Twentieth-century Religion and History (Level I Special Field)
  • Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field)
  • The American West: An Environmental History (Level I Special Field)
  • The Smugglers' City (Level I Special Field)
  • Decade of Discord: Britain in the 1970's (Level I Special Field)
  • Travels in Space and Time 1850-Present (Level I Special Field)
  • Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe (Level I Lecture Response)
  • Drink: a History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Europe's Age of Revolutions (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Modern Girls and New Women (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Revels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Sixties America and its Aftermath (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Slavery and the Modern World (Level I Lecture Response)
  • Strangers in the Land: Making America and Becoming American (Level I Lecture Response)
  • The History of Photography/The Photography of History (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • The South African War (Level I Lecture Response Unit)
  • Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists C and E1 or E2

Year 3 (2019/20)
  • Dissertation
  • Radicalism and Class in Britain 1760-1850 (Level H Special Subject)
  • Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject)
  • Internationalising Modern China 1850s - 1950 (Level H Special Subject)
  • Repressed or Risque?: Victorian Sex and Sexuality (Level H Special Subject)
  • History through Literature in Early Modern Europe
  • Convicts and the colonies: punishment, forced labour and the British Empire (Level H Special Subject)
  • Science and the Supernatural
  • Documentary, Society and Conflict in Twentieth Century Ireland
  • Leisure Landscapes of Modern Britain (Level H Special Subject)
  • Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject)
  • Lives and Letters (Level H Special Subject)
  • The World of Byzantium (c.500-1100) (Level H Special Subject)
  • Getting Acquainted with Friendship (Level H Reflective History)
  • Witchcraft (Level H Reflective History)
  • Poverty and Famines in Historical Perspective (Level H Reflective History)
  • Describing Difference: Race, Culture and Ethnicity (Level H Reflective History)
  • History, Law and Memory: The Holocaust on Trial (Level H Reflective History)
  • Discovering America (Level H Reflective History)
  • Bringing History (and Historians) Down to Earth (Level H Reflective History)
  • Propaganda (Level H Reflective History)
  • Capitalism (Level H Reflective History)
  • Borderlands: People and Places at the Periphery (Reflective History Unit)
  • Filming the Past
  • History Outside The Box (Level H Reflective History)
  • Eugenics: The First Fifty Years (1883-1932) (Level H Reflective History)
  • Dealing with Defeat: the English and the Norman Conquest, since 1066 (Level H Reflective History)
  • Holocaust Landscapes (Level H Lecture Response)
  • Constructing the 'Other' in Western Europe, c.1000 - 1400 (Level H Lecture Response)
  • Death, Doctors and Disease (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Early Modern Italy (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Food: a Global History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Genocide in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • History in the Middle Ages (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Pirates (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • The British World (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Big City Lights: Comparative Urban History (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Colonizing Nature (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Tudor Britain (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • Greed is Good: Contemporary Enterprise Culture in Britain and America (Level H Lecture Response Unit)
  • The Public Role of the Humanities

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