Global Studies and History - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

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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 Global Studies you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. Combining these two subjects gives you a unique insight into the ways in which historical events have directly influenced the modern day experiences of individuals and societies around the world.

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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
  • Global
  • Intercultural
  • Humanities
  • Transformation
  • Dissertation
  • European Writing
  • Cinema
  • Society
  • Professional

Course programme

Year One
  • Foundations in Global Studies
  • Issues in Intercultural Communication
  • History: Practice and Purpose
  • Pathways Through Modernity
Year Two
  • Researching Global Experience
  • The Historian's Craft
  • Humanities at work
Global Studies optional modules
  • In-Country Study
  • Gender and Nation
  • Intercultural Communication in International Context
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
Year Three
  • Dissertation
Global Studies optional modules
  • Global Citizenship
  • Small Islands, Big Issues: Small Island Developing States in a Globalising World
  • Development in the 21st Century
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

Global Studies and History - BA (Hons)

Price on request