Communication & Society and History - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our course combinations are designed so that what you learn in one subject will complement and enhance what you learn in the other. In your final year you can choose either to split your time evenly between your two subjects, or to specialise in one. Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you too. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enables you to take part in optional work placements or go on international exchange.

By choosing History and Communication & Society you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. These subjects will give you a deep understanding of the events that shape societies and influence our sense of self.

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Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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About this course

This is a major part of the curriculum. Key transferable skills are emphasised and there are opportunities to develop links with organisations and potential employers. Joint honours courses develop a wide range of skills. These include written and oral communication skills, critical analysis and a variety of IT skills. But you’ll also become more self-motivated, be able to work independently and in teams, and develop excellent time management skills.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • International
  • Media
  • Digital Cultures
  • Advertising
  • Public Relations
  • Journalism
  • Dissertation
  • Project
  • Museum Matters
  • History

Course programme

Year One
  • History: Practice and Purpose
  • Pathways Through Modernity
  • Face-to-Face to Facebook: Understanding Communication in an Age of New Media
  • Introducing Media Communications: Publicity, Persuasion and Propaganda
  • Media Communications and Digital Cultures
  • Psychology of Communication
Year Two
  • The Historian's Craft
  • Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Explorations of Identity and Selfhood
  • Humanities at work
History optional modules
  • Land of Liberty: History of the United States, 1815-2000
  • The Crusades
  • Conflicts and Cultures in Mid-Victorian England 1850-1880
  • Heritage Matters
  • The Age of Reformations
  • Revolutionary Transformations: Russia and China in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • The Eagle and the Snake: Conquests and Colonisations of Mexico
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 1: The New Creativity
  • Communications and Creativity Toolkit
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Media and Culture in Asia
  • Digital Identities: The Politics of Communication in the Globalised World
Year Three
  • Dissertation
History optional modules
  • Real-Life Work Project
  • Memory and Identities in European Writing, Cinema and Society
  • Crusading Cultures and Communities
  • Rustic and Rude: Rural Cultures 1840-1880
  • Early Modern Revolution and War
  • Magna Carta: Origins, Impetus and Legacy
  • Museum Matters
  • The African American Experience in History and Memory
  • Living and Dying in Reformation Britain
  • Mission Impossible? Converting the New World
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 2: Convergence and Creativity in the Digital Age
  • Self in Crisis: Power, Prejudice and Otherness
  • DJ Cultures: History, Theory and Technique
  • Trans-National and Alternative Media
  • Humanity in the Natural World

Communication & Society and History - BA (Hons)

Price on request