BA (Hons) History

Edge Hill University

Bachelor's degree

In Ormskirk

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

This degree is committed to delivering cutting-edge teaching and research in the fascinating field of Modern History – from African-American civil rights to the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict. All of our research has been judged to be internationally important (REF 2014) and this connection with debates and developments feeds directly into our teaching. We pride ourselves on our student-centred culture and strive to nurture the skills, knowledge and confidence of everyone in our community, helping them develop a deep subject knowledge and an understanding of the connections between that knowledge and the present-day. Our mission is to help you realise your full potential and become an independent, confident and employable graduate, able to apply your knowledge and skills in a variety of areas and actively engage with the wider world.

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Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

Edge Hill History Graduates have successfully entered a wide variety of professions. These include law, the Civil Service, retail management, business, information management, politics, local government, media and journalism. They have also entered teacher training.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff, preferably to include A Level History or equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Teaching
  • Conflict
  • History
  • Globalisation
  • Imperialism
  • Liberation
  • British Empire
  • Political
  • Urbanisation
  • Economic Crisis
  • Roman Empire
  • Renaissance

Course programme

Year 1

HIS1010 The Medieval Outlook (20 credits)

HIS1011 The Dawn of Modernity (20 credits)

HIS1012 Europe Re-made (20 credits)

HIS1013 Imperialism, Liberation, Globalisation (20 credits)

HIS1016 Time Detectives (20 credits)

HIS1017 History and Society: Theory, Practice and Impact (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of either HIS1016 Time Detectives or HIS1017 History and Society: Theory, Practice and Impact.

Year 2

You will select six of the following modules:

HIS2020 Communism in Eastern and Central Europe After 1945 (20 credits)

HIS2022 Urbanisation, Immigration and Economic Crisis: The United States 1880-1941 (20 credits)

HIS2023 Mission and Manifest Destiny: U.S. Foreign Policy and Expansionism 1840-1939 (20 credits)

HIS2024 Rise to Globalism: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939 (20 credits)

HIS2025 The Rise of the British Empire (20 credits)

HIS2026 The Fall of the British Empire (20 credits)

HIS2031 Migration and Mobility in Contemporary European History (20 credits)

HIS2032 Digital Detectives (20 credits)

HIS2033 Introduction to Contemporary French History: From the 1930s to the Present (20 credits)

HUM2000 Independent Project (20 credits)

MED2258 History on Screen (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Year 3

You will select a total of 120 credits from the following modules, choosing at least one of HIS3038 Special Subject and HIS3039 Independent Research Project.

HIS3020 Black Life and Black Protest in the United States 1895-1945 (20 credits)

HIS3021 Black Life and Black Protest in the United States Since 1945 (20 credits)

HIS3024 Seeds of Conflict in the Holy Land 1840-1923 (20 credits)

HIS3025 British Rule in Palestine (20 credits)

HIS3036 The Special Relationship: Britain and the USA (20 credits)

HIS3037 History: Interpretations and Context (20 credits)

HIS3038 Special Subject (40 credits)

HIS3039 Independent Research Project (40 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional 20 credit modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £11,575 per annum.

How will I be assessed?

 The focus in all assignments in on analysis and argumentation. These skills will be assessed using a variety of different exercises including essays, book reviews, primary source analysis, presentations and contributions to online discussions. Some modules also have exams, however in the first year these never account for more than 30% of a module mark, with this rising to 50% in the second and third year. In the final year of your degree a great deal of emphasis is placed on individual research-based modules.

Who will be teaching me?

 You will be taught by a team of highly experienced and enthusiastic teachers, who research and write History. They actively participate in debates in the media, as well as act as consultants in a wide range of areas, including contributing to the development of online archives at the British Library They are at the cutting edge of the subject and will share with you their ideas and new interpretations in a wide range of topics. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), more that 50% of their published research was judged to be either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally-excellent’.

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