History with Heritage - BA(Hons)

Year one

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• An Introduction to Heritage
• Sources for Courses: History and Evidence
• Foundations of the Modern Europe
• British History From the Black Death to the Present Day.

Year two

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• Public History: Representations of the Past from 1400 to the Present
• Project Management in History.

In addition, you will study two of the following optional modules:

• Problems of Power: US History, 1776-Present
• Politics and Society in Ireland since 1750
• Men and Women in Imperial Britain, c.1700-1800
• Themes in Social and Political History of Fascism: Europe 1890-1945
• Crime and Protest in England, 1750-1930
• The First English Empire - Britain, Ireland and France, c. 1000-1540
• Modern South Africa: Segregation, the State and the Origins of Apartheid, 1820-1948
• Divine Right, Regicide and Revolution: Politics in Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1509-1689.

If you choose to study on the four year sandwich route, you will spend your third year on placement. The curriculum in the second year provides support for the process of securing this.

Final year

You will study the following compulsory modules:

• History in the Public Space
• Applied Historical Research.

In addition, you will study two optional modules from the list below OR one if a Study Year Abroad (SYA) or Placement Year has been completed:

• Resistance to Fascism and Nazism in Western Europe: The Spanish Civil War and Occupied France, 1936-1945
• Politics, Culture and Society in Tudor and Stuart England, c. 1485-1689
• Crowds, Disorder and the Law in England, 1730-1820
• Stalin and Stalinism
• The Collapse of Empire and Colonial War: British and French Decolonisation, 1918-1965
• Arc of Crisis: Great Power Rivalries in the Near East, c.1821-1991
• Culture, Authority and Crisis: England and its Neighbours, c.1348-1520
• Mafias, Mythologies and Criminal Networks: The United States and the Globalisation of Crime.

For part-time delivery, the same modules will be studied. However, the structure will differ.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.

You will encounter a strong mix of teaching and learning methods from lectures and seminars to individual and group research project work.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Assessment methods, which vary for each module, may include essays, extended essays, document tests and exercises, short reports, documentary film-making, web-design, app design, assessed seminar papers and presentations, book and/or periodical reviews, group and individual project work, a dissertation and examinations.

The ratio of coursework to examinations varies greatly; some modules are almost entirely based on coursework or project work, while others have split assessment with up to a maximum of 50% of the module being assessed by formal examination.