BA (Hons) History with Foundation Year

Bachelor's degree

In Wolverhampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Wolverhampton

History is important: it shapes our lives and moulds our identities. This fascinating and thorough course allows you to examine a wide range of themes and issues in the history of Britain, Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth century to the present day. Focusing on the cultural, political, social and economic aspects of historical change, you will be encouraged to study particular areas of historical interest and controversy in depth. Subjects include the study of youth culture, crime, labour movements, consumption, globalisation, migration, and the impact and conduct of war. 

In your studies, you will learn the essential historical techniques of critical analysis, research methods and the skills required for handling and processing information. You will also be given the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of different historical approaches through a varied and dynamic learning and teaching environment. Using traditional and enhanced electronic forms of learning, this degree enables you to achieve your full potential, developing the skills for successful study and future employment. 

The course actively encourages intellectual curiosity and digital literacy and lets you apply the skills you have learned in the classroom to relevant work situations. Our graduates are in high demand and employers value the critical awareness, communication skills, initiative and organisational abilities the course instils in our students.

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Location

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Wolverhampton (West Midlands)
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Wulfruna Street, WV1 1LY

Start date

On request

About this course

Semester 1 Starters:

UNDERGRADUATE

Year 1 (Foundation)

3GK003 Academic Skills (20 Credits)

3GK005 Critical Thinking (20 Credits)

3GK007 Wolverhampton and its People (20 Credits)

3GK004 The World at Work: Careers and Personal Development (20 Credits)

3GK006 Extended Project (20 Credits)

3GK008 Culture and Nationality in Conflict (20 Credits)

Year 2

Core modules (2020/2021)

4HS001 The Pursuit of History

4HS002 Early Modern England

4HS003 The Making of Modern Britain, c1700 - c1819

4HS004 Europe and the Americas

Optional modules (2020/2021)

4PO005 Campaigning and Citizenship: Women in Britain and Empire, 1970s to 1970s

4WR004 The Holocaust

4PO006 Contemporary Capitalism

4GK006 Success in Higher Education

4WL002 Basic Language

4WL003 Elementary Language

4SL011 Volunteering in the Community

 

Year 3

Modules (2020/2021)

5HS001 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1974

5HS002 Revolutionary Ireland, 1798-1940

5HS003 Sex and the City: Sexuality in the Long Eighteenth Century

5HS005 The Working Class in Twentieth-Century Britain

5HS006 The Social History of Victorian Britain, c1850-c1901

5HS007 Preserving the Past: Heritage, History and Identity

5HS008 Migrant Journeys, Migrant Stories

5HS010 The Great War 1914-1918

5HS012 Minorities in the Twentieth Century United States

5WR002 The Battle for Normandy 1944

5WR005 War in Europe, 1939-1945

5WR008 Pax Britannica? War and Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century

5WL001 Basic Language

5WL002 Elementary Language

5PO006 Contemporary Britain

5SL008 Volunteering in Action

 

Year 4

Optional modules (2020/2021)

6HS001 America: The Rise of a Superpower

6HS003 Consumption and the World of Goods

6HS004 Independent Study in History

6HS006 Youth Culture and Popular Music in Twentieth Century Britain

6HS010 From Weimar to Auschwitz: Germany, 1919-1945

6HS011 From Reich to Republic: German Society, 1871-1924

6HS013 Work Placement in the Community

6HS014 The Family in Britain, 1830-1939

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Subjects

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Course programme

Module: 3GK015

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

You will have the opportunity to study and understand contemporary social issues from different disciplinary perspectives. You will engage with current academic debates about a range of social issues and debate and discuss ideas about the social world that will challenge and extend your thinking. The module will provide an exciting basis for your future study of the Social Sciences.


Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.


Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.


Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.


Module: 4PO005

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to explore some of the ways in which women in the past have challenged their subordination, both by demanding& nbsp;their inclusion in public, political and professional life and& nbsp;through involvement in movements for wider social and political reform. The module will include case study material from Britain and across the British Empire& nbsp;-& nbsp;including India and the Caribbean - to showcase historic campaigns& nbsp;including women& #39;s opposition to slavery, the struggle for women& #39;s higher education,& nbsp;the reform of sexual conduct& nbsp;and the fight for women& #39;s suffrage.


Module: 4HS002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides an introduction to the social, cultural and economic foundation of early modern England, focusing upon the key issues, theories and methodologies underpinning the development of the Tudor and early Stuart State. Particular attention will be drawn to the main historical approaches regarding elite and popular culture, gender, religious practice, trade, poverty, social insurrection and war.


Module: 4HS004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module surveys the history of Europe and the Americas between 1789 and 1914 by exploring major areas of intersection and interdependence in the historical development of both continents. It examines similarities in the use of forced labour, the complex web of economic relations between the continents, and illuminates the flow of population and ideas across the Atlantic. In addition the module also considers the consequences that nation-building and imperialism in Europe and the Americas had for ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples.


Module: 4WR004

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The Holocaust stands as a watershed event for western civilization, calling into question the moral and ethical foundations of the West. This module sets the historical exploration of the events of the Holocaust within the wider context of political, religious and legal issues.


Module: 4HS003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module examines the foundations of modern British society through a focus on the broad period of industrial development and social change c1700-c1819 (the year the Monarchy was presented with an heir apparent). Especial emphasis will be given to the impact of industrialisation, British imperialism and urbanisation on the world of work, politics, culture and the household.


Module: 4HS001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module introduces you to the study and practice of history (and if you are studying for a degree in a cognate field, the practice of academic work). Different approaches to the subject, historiographical and methodological issues will be studied in order to familiarise you with the pathway learning outcomes, derived from the QAA History benchmarking statement, which will underpin your studies. A key focus of the module will be the development of subject and key skills that will enable you to cope with more advanced work in the subject.


Module: 5HS003

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to examine the key themes of family, gender and sexuality in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The module focuses upon urban and public culture using a variety of online and documentary sources to examine both ‘normative’ and ‘transgressive’ behaviour within British society.


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History is important: it shapes our lives and moulds our identities.

BA (Hons) History with Foundation Year

£ 9,250 + VAT