History (Placement Year) : BA hons : V101

Lancaster University

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Develop your critical abilities and historical knowledge within a vibrant department of committed students and expert scholars.

Lancaster’s first-year core History module offers a fascinating survey of world history from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century. The course encompasses histories from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and examines pivotal events, transformative processes and historical debates. Weekly lectures and seminars will deepen your critical historical knowledge and support you in developing your own research, essay-writing and presentational skills. The majority of our students choose from a second set of optional first-year modules. These specialised modules include ‘The Fall of Rome’ and ‘Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World’.

For second and third-year students, the Department offers an extensive range of over thirty modules that includes both short term-length modules and the third-year Special Subjects. You can choose to focus on a particular period, theme or region or to develop a breadth of chronological and geographical knowledge. These module options include British, European, American, Asian and Middle Eastern history, from the ancient world to the twenty-first century. These modules emerge from the research expertise of academic staff in the department. You will be taught by leaders in the field of critical historical research.

In your second year you can also choose to undertake a heritage placement project. These placements allow our students to gain invaluable work experience and enhance their employability. Our placements partners include The National Trust, Cumbria County Council and The Duchy of Lancaster.

You will also have the opportunity to spend Year 3 on placement with a public, private or voluntary organisation in the UK or overseas.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

Our graduates have a number of career paths open to them, including journalism and publishing, marketing, PR and retail management. Core skills including independent research, critical analysis and effective presentation have enabled recent graduates to gain roles with major employers including Marks & Spencer, Santander, BskyB and Sainsbury’s.


The interdisciplinary research methodologies, critical analysis, organisational and writing skills developed over the course of our degrees can lead to career destinations including business, marketing, the media, publishing, the Civil Service and the public sector.

Many of our graduates decide to progress to postgraduate studies with us or other institutions, often entering into research and teaching positions.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level AAB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Writing
  • History and Historians
  • History of Lancaster
  • History and Histories
  • History
  • Bad War
  • Russian history
  • Britain
  • Muslim Sicily

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians

Optional

    • 'Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World'
    • 'Witches', Warriors, and Slavers: Exploring the History of Lancaster
    • Brave New Worlds? Modernisms and Modernities
    • From Great War to Total War?
    • People, Places and the Past: History and Histories
    • Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800
    • The Fall of Rome
Year 2

Core

    • Making History: Contexts, Sources and Publics
    • Writing History: Questions, Methods, Conclusions

Optional

    • A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present
    • After Vietnam: Remembering, Representing and Refighting the 'Bad War'
    • Athens, Sparta and Alexander the Great, 403-31 BC
    • Athens, Sparta and the Greek World (c. 800-404 B.C.)
    • Between Two Worlds: Russian History 1825-1914
    • Britain in the Twentieth Century
    • Byzantine and Muslim Sicily (535-1072)
    • Crusade and Jihad: Holy War in the Middle East, 1095-1254
    • Culture and Society in England, 1500-1750
    • From Education to Employment: History Work Placement Module
    • From Education to Employment: Work Placement Project
    • Gandhi and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1948
    • In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain Since 1970
    • In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain, 1880-1970
    • Inventing Human Rights, 1776-2001
    • Mapping Terra Incognita: Travel and Exploration in The Atlantic and Pacific Worlds 1492-1642
    • Medicine, Life and Death, 1800 to the Present
    • Nature and culture 1500-1700: Themes from the Renaissance
    • New World Order 1919-1939
    • Norman England, 1066- 1154: Conquest, Colonisation and Conflict
    • Partisans and Collaborators: World War II in Occupied Europe
    • Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century
    • Sex, Babies and the Reproduction of the Nation, 1800 to the Present
    • Slavery & Freedom: North America, 1620-1800
    • The Cold War in Europe
    • The English Civil War (1640-1660)
    • The History of the English Lake District: Terror, Ecstasy, and Environmental Change
    • The History of the United States, 1789-1865
    • The History of the United States, 1865-1989
    • The Making and Unmaking of Heroes in German History: from Warriors and a People's Queen to Film Stars and a Football Team.
    • The Making of Germany, 843-1122
    • The Origins and Rise of Islam (600-1250 AD)
    • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1865
    • The United States and the Vietnam War
    • The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901
    • The Wartime Gender Contract & the Combat Taboo in 20th century Britain.
    • Three Colours, One Flag, One Empire: the French Colonial World, 1791-1962
    • Virginia, (1585-1685): adventure, war and tobacco in the first American colony
Year 4

Core

    • Dissertation

Optional

    • 'The Shock of the New': Modernity and the Modernisms of American Culture, 1877-1919
    • 'These Beastly Obscenities': Monuments, Images and Antiquities in Imperial India
    • A Global History of the Cold War
    • Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
    • Anarchy and society in the Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720
    • Bede and his World, c.660-740
    • Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
    • La nouvelle histoire: Twentieth-Century Historiography in France and Beyond
    • Poverty in England c.1580-1780
    • Private Lives and Public Policy: Evacuation, Memory, and the Second World War
    • Science and Society in England, 1640-1688
    • Society and the Divine in Ancient Greece
    • Special Subject Provisional Registration
    • The Normans in Italy (1050-1194)
    • The Politics of Memory: The Contested Past in Museums, Monuments, and Minds
    • The surveillance society: Official records and life and death in Victorian & Edwardian Britain.
    • The Third Reich and Film
    • Vikings and Sea-Kings: Power and Plunder in the Irish Sea Region, 794-1079

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

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