History BA Placement offered
Postgraduate
In Uxbridge
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Uxbridge
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Start date
Different dates available
Studying the societies and events of the past will allow you to look at the modern world from a new perspective, to compare and contrast the past and the present, and understand their connection better.
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About this course
IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)
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Recommended
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Course programme
You can choose from a wide selection of modules each of which may have a discrete emphasis on social, economic, political, intellectual or cultural history, or may weave one or more of these perspectives together.
The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.
Level 1
Compulsory
- Revolution, Liberty and the Origins of American Democracy
- What is History?
- Capital, Labour and Power: Britain 1707-1939
- History, Memory and Culture in Europe since 1789
- The Making of the Modern World
- Migration and the Settler World, 1600-1914
Level 2
Compulsory
- Historians and their Craft
Optional
Choose 5 from the following:
- US Foreign Policy from World War 2 to the end of the Cold War
- Issues in American Politics
- Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
- The First World War - Causes, Course, Consequences
- Australia and The Modern World
- Themes in the History of Modern Africa
- The State and Revolution
- History of the Women’s Movement in the West, c. 1790-1930
- The Holocaust
- National Security Intelligence
Level 3
Compulsory
- Dissertation
Optional
- Psychogeography
- Globalisation and Governance
- Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony
- Media, Politics and Power in America
- Marx and Marxism
- Fascism
- The Second World War
- The British Maritime World, 1660-1815
- Crisis and Critique
- History of Political Philosophy
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa
Final Dissertation
Students produce a 12,000 word dissertation on a subject of their choice. This major piece of work, undertaken with the support of a dissertation tutor, will give you the valuable opportunity to demonstrate research and writing skills. It is written on a subject relevant to your particular course of study and may well relate to your future career plans.
Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.
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History BA Placement offered