History, BA Hons

Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Duration

    3 Years

This history degree is shaped by our research passions and expertise. You'll explore a diverse range of topics, including gender, violence, migration, national identities and the environment, across the 17th to the 20th centuries. The historic site of our Greenwich Campus provides easy access to important archives and museums in central London.

You can also undertake a placement in the creative, cultural, education or heritage sectors, and explore other subjects such as politics, English, or a foreign language. Our history graduates emerge with valuable communication, digital and project management skills for a wide range of careers, including teaching, journalism, publishing and heritage management.

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SeptemberEnrolment now closed

About this course

For entry in September 2021, you will require:

104 UCAS points from A-Levels (we also accept UCAS points from alternative Level 3 qualifications including: BTEC Nationals, the International Baccalaureate and Scottish and Irish Highers)
AND YOU WILL ALSO REQUIRE:

GCSE English (Language or Literature) AND GCSE Maths at grade 4/C or above. We also consider equivalent qualifications in English and Maths at Level 2, in place of GCSEs.

What you should know about this course
The course traces over 500 years of British and global histories.
The course explores the origins of globalisation where east and west meet. It follows women and men – including sailors, slaves, merchants, criminals who passed through Greenwich - en route to making the modern world.
It introduces you to a range of historical methods and historiography, and aims to help you develop as a critical, analytical thinker and communicator.
You will work with creative and inspiring teachers and researchers whose work shapes the modules you'll follow.
Our 'History in practice' and work placement modules provide an opportunity to apply your historical knowledge and skills to a range of organisations and employers.

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Subjects

  • Mandarin
  • Politics
  • English
  • International
  • Global
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Trade
  • History Politics
  • British Empire

Course programme

Year 1

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
  • Introducing History: Ideas and Practice (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
  • Mandarin 1 (30 credits)
  • Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
  • Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
  • English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
  • The Canon: A Short History of Western Literature (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
  • Europe and the Revolutions, 1789-1914 (30 credits)
  • The Changing Faces of Britain 1707 – 1918 (30 credits)
  • Conflict, Commerce and Culture: Britain and the World, 1600-2000 (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
  • Introduction to Politics and International Relations (30 credits)
  • Inequality and Social Change (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options.
  • Europe and the Revolutions, 1789-1914 (30 credits)
  • The Changing Faces of Britain 1707 – 1918 (30 credits)
  • Conflict, Commerce and Culture: Britain and the World, 1600-2000 (30 credits)
Year 2

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
  • History in Practice (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options.
  • 'The People's War': The Second World War, Society, Culture and Legacy (15 credits)
  • Atlantic Worlds 1650-1783 (15 credits)
  • Empire and Nation in the Middle East (15 credits)
  • Remaking English Society, c. 1550-1760 (15 credits)
  • Rebel Earth? History and Politics in the Anthropocene (15 credits)
  • “The Turbulent British”: A history of protest across the British Empire 1770 – 1930 (15 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
  • Mandarin 1 (30 credits)
  • Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
  • Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
  • English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
  • Shakespeare, Then and Now (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
  • 'The People's War': The Second World War, Society, Culture and Legacy (15 credits)
  • Atlantic Worlds 1650-1783 (15 credits)
  • Empire and Nation in the Middle East (15 credits)
  • Remaking English Society, c. 1550-1760 (15 credits)
  • Rebel Earth? History and Politics in the Anthropocene (15 credits)
  • “The Turbulent British”: A history of protest across the British Empire 1770 – 1930 (15 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
  • Work Placement (Level 5) (30 credits)
  • Language Research Project (French, Italian, Spanish) (30 credits)
  • Working in Politics and International Relations (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 1) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)
Year 3

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
  • The History Dissertation (30 credits)
  • Work Placement (Level 6) (30 credits)
Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options.
  • Britain and the Suppression of the Slave trade 1807-1867 (15 credits)
  • Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (15 credits)
  • Projecting Nations: Film, History and Propaganda (15 credits)
  • Writing Lives: Narratives of Defiance in North America & Britain 1850 -1950 (15 credits)
  • Footprints of Everyday Life: The Environmental History of Modern Britain (15 credits)
  • A Global History of Genocide (15 credits)
Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options.
  • Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
  • Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
  • The Literature of the Gothic (30 credits)
  • English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
  • Modern Identities: Literature of the Global Eighteenth Century (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
  • Britain and the Suppression of the Slave trade 1807-1867 (15 credits)
  • Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (15 credits)
  • Projecting Nations: Film, History and Propaganda (15 credits)
  • Writing Lives: Narratives of Defiance in North America & Britain 1850 -1950 (15 credits)
  • Footprints of Everyday Life: The Environmental History of Modern Britain (15 credits)
  • A Global History of Genocide (15 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
  • Language Research Project (French, Italian, Spanish) (30 credits)
  • Political Conspiracy and Slander (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
  • European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)

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History, BA Hons

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