History (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

£ 7,909.67 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

Our History programme is diverse, international in focus and innovative. Exploring primarily modern and contemporary history, this course will teach you the skills for effective research and analysis, helping to hone your ability to absorb, understand and communicate complex information. 

We cover British, South Asian, European and African and North and South American history alongside the more niche topics of photographic history, the history of sport and leisure, war and conflict, migration, ethnicity and racism, and employability. 

We use a mixture of year-long and half-year modules to allow you to study a wide range of different subject and experience a variety of diverse teaching methods and types of assessment. As you progress through the course, we’ll challenge you with more in-depth explorations, and the subject matter will become increasingly complex.  You’ll be supported by a passionate teaching team who provide an interactive and dynamic learning environment.

At DMU, you can study History and Politics or History and International Relations as a joint honours course, broadening your understanding of events that shape our world. You will choose 50 per cent of your options from our History modules and 50 per cent from Politics or International Relations modules.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

Start date

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About this course

112 points from at least 2 A ‘levels and including grade C in History or
BTEC Extended Diploma DMM and including grade C in A level History or
International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points

Key features

History at DMU is ranked number one in the East Midlands and 14th in the UK, according to the Guardian University Guide 2021.
Specialise in distinctive areas such as photographic history, history of sport and leisure, war and conflict, migration, history and employability, ethnicity and racism.
Develop a wide range of transferable skills by learning how to research and communicate complex information effectively. Our graduates use these skills to forge successful careers across a range of professions including teaching, the law, marketing and the heritage and museum sector.
Benefit from expert teaching delivered by our team of renowned academics, as well as gain wider knowledge and insight through organised trips to archives and museums such as The National Archives in London.
Develop transferable skills by learning how to research and communicate complex information effectively and apply this to a real-world context through a placement. Previous students have gained professional experience at a large regional newspaper, Leicester’s award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre, and taught at a school in Spain.

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Subjects

  • Teaching Methods
  • International
  • Teaching
  • Conflict
  • IT
  • International Relations
  • Politics
  • Options
  • Employability
  • Joint

Course programme

First year
  • Presenting and Representing the Past
  • The Making of the Modern World
Second year

Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.

  • British India 1857–1947
  • Germany in World War Two (half-year option)
  • History and the Workplace
  • Histories of the Global South
  • Mass Observing Britain in War and Peace, 1936-1951 (half-year option)
  • Sport in 20th Century Britain (half-year option)
  • The Cold War
  • The Historian’s Craft: Sources and Methods in History (Compulsory for joint honours students wishing to do a History dissertation in third year).
  • Visualising the Modern World 1860-1950 (half-year option)
  • Divide and Quit: the closing days of imperial rule in India
  • The Origins of Multicultural Britain
Third year

Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.

  • Borders and Boundaries: Legacies of Colonial Rule: India and Pakistan since 1947
  • Dissertation
  • Environment and Society in the Americas (half-year option)
  • Jews in Twentieth Century Britain (half-year option)
  • Photography and Conflict (half-year option)
  • Textual Studies Using Computers
  • The Olympics (half-year option)
  • US Presidency
  • Yugoslavia and Beyond
  • History and Heritage (half-year option)
  • Witchcraft, Magic and the Supernatural in Britain and Europe from 1500 (half-year option)
Teaching and assessments

Overview

Our teaching is interactive, informal and enjoyable. We encourage you to develop your own thoughts, ideas and viewpoints and you will build the skills you need to be effective in both historical study and the modern workplace.

The modules are all designed to improve your skills as an effective historian from analysis and research to reasoning and evaluation. They are also constructed to help you develop aptitudes and characteristics that will improve your employability such as initiative, teamwork and communication.

You will be taught by experts in their field, the people who are writing the books you are reading. Our history staff are renowned nationally and internationally for the quality of their teaching and research.

We work hard to ensure that the student experience is lively, dynamic and stimulating, and regular guest lecturers and speakers address both curriculum-related topics and topics of broader historical interest.

The curriculum for History at DMU is diverse, international in focus and innovative. We use a mixture of year-long and half-year modules to allow students to broaden out their studies and to experience a variety of different teaching methods, module structures and assessment patterns.

Contact hours

History and Politics

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 27 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

History and International Relations

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 27 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

History (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

£ 7,909.67 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €