Cultural history ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Cultural History degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

• History in Practice

• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• Life and Death in the Victorian Home

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
• The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: INtroduction to Intellectual History
• Europe 1000 - 1500: The Middle Ages and their legacy

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

• Architecture in London I, 1600 - 1837
• Art in France from Louis XIV to the Revolution
• British Horror: Film Television and Literature
• Contemporary Art and Society
• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Societies
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• London and its Museums
• Outsiders in the Middle Ages, Women and Gender in Late Medieval England, c1300-c.1500
• The Georgians: Society and Culture in Eighteenth Century England
• Victorian Values: Religion, Sex, Race and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

History special subject and dissertation module in one of 15+ subjects, which may include:

• Behind Closed Doors: House, Home and Private Life in England, 1660-1850
• The Kennedy Years
• Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• Slaves on Horses: State and Society under the Mamluks
• The War on Terror

• Alfred Hitchcock and the New Film History
• Cold War America 1945-1975
• Gotham: The Making of New York City 1825-2001
• Modern Art, 1900-1950
• Piracy in World History
• Protest and Revolution in Germany 1789-1989
• Solitude in Life and Literature in the Enlightenment
• The Body is Science, Medicine and Culture since 1832.
• The History of Emotions
• The World that Jane Austen Knew: Women, Gender and Culture in England
• Video Games: History, Culture and Representation from Pac-Man to Pokemon
• Witches, Demons and Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Cultural History BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.