History with a Year Abroad BA

University College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The programme includes three first-year core modules, a further core module and a research project in the second year, at least nine months studying at a foreign institution in the third year, a final-year special subject, and options chosen from a range of full-year and half-year modules. During the year abroad you will take the equivalent of 120 credits at your host university. We encourage our students to gain maximum benefit from the chronological range of expertise in the department by taking at least one module in each of ancient history; medieval or early modern history; and modern history.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

Spend your third year of study abroad. In recent years institutions have included the Catholic University of Chile; the University of Texas in Austin, USA; the University of California, USA; University of Leiden, the Netherlands; University College Dublin, Ireland; the University of Toronto in Canada; and the University of Sydney in Australia. Drawing upon UCL History, related UCL departments and relevant University of London colleges, the programme offers a wide variety of modules spanning extraordinary chronological breadth and geographical range. Specialisms of the department include the history of the ancient Near East, the history of the Americas, the cultural and intellectual history of Europe, and transnational history. Exceptional resources, including the British Museum and British Library, are within walking distance, and other London-based museums and organisations provide unrivalled opportunities for accessing primary source material.

The programme is designed to teach many transferable skills: how to gather and organise evidence; how to analyse it and present a structured argument; how to express yourself clearly both in writing and orally. UCL's History graduates have excelled in a wide range of occupations, as lawyers, financial advisers, stockbrokers, television producers, diplomats, journalists, bankers, teachers, and in the health service, the police and overseas development programmes, as well as in progressing to further study.

English Language and Mathematics at grade C or 5. For UK-based students, a grade C or 5 or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required.

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Subjects

  • Making History
  • History
  • Approaching History
  • Medieval Universe
  • Hellenistic World
  • British History
  • Latin America
  • Prerequisite
  • Enlightenment
  • Twentieth century

Course programme

Year 1

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Writing History
  • Making History
  • Approaching History
Optional modules

You will select 60 credits of optional modules, including at least 30 credits from a wide range of options in History. Options may include:

  • The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the End of the Attalid Kingdom
  • The Medieval Universe
  • British History 1850-1990
  • Building the American Nation: The United States 1789-1920
  • History of Latin America c.1830-c.1930
Year 2

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Research Seminar

During the spring term students will participate in the Study Abroad Preparation Programme, the successful completion of which is a prerequisite for progression to the year abroad.

Optional modules

You will select 90 credits of optional modules, including at least 60 credits from a wide range of options in History. Options may include:

  • Enlightenment and Revolution: Europe 1715-1805
  • London in the Twentieth Century: From Imperial to Global City
  • American History in Hollywood Film
  • Islamic Empires in a Comparative Perspective: The Foundations of Mediterranean Politics in the Age of Crusades
  • Africa, Decolonization and Internationalism

Up to 30 credits can be selected from another approved interdepartmental or intercollegiate module.

Year 3

Year abroad key information

Students will follow modules over one academic year at another institution in lieu of modules they would have been taking at UCL. For students interested in the Chile exchange, Spanish is required. No allowances will be made for non-native speakers by our partner institutions, so students must be confident operating in the target language at an advanced level. Students will receive guidance for their year abroad and allocation of placements from the department during the autumn term of the second year. Work placements are not offered.

Year abroad: further details

In recent years host institutions for this programme have included:

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of California
  • John Hopkins University in Baltimore
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Toronto
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC-Chile)
  • University of Leiden
  • University College Dublin
  • University of Sydney
Year 4

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Dissertation
Optional modules

You will select 90 credits of optional modules, including at least 30 credits from a History Special Subject, at least 30 credits from History full-year and half-year modules (which may include an approved intercollegiate module) and up to 30 credits from another department or discipline.

History Special Subject options may include:

  • Competitive Men: The Politics of Competition in Ancient Greece
  • Passages to Jerusalem: The Crusades and the Medieval World
  • Great Britain and the American Colonies, 1760-1776
  • Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary
  • Race and Resistance in Black Atlantic Thought
Your learning

Our approach to learning places emphasis on active student participation in seminar discussion (always in groups of fifteen or fewer). Some modules, particularly in your first year, will also include lectures. Essays you write will always be returned to you in individual face-to-face tutorials in which you will receive constructive, personal feedback.

Assessment

Your work will be assessed by a mixture of examinations and written coursework. Significant weight is given to an extended essay based on original sources produced in your final year.

Additional information

Overseas students fee

£19,390 (2018/19)

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History with a Year Abroad BA

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