Intellectual history ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Intellectual History degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

Compulsory

• History in Practice
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History

Choose from

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Europe 1000 - 1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
• Life and Death in the Victorian Home
• Race and the Desire for Difference
• Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
• Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
• The Medieval World: Structures and Mentalities
• Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

Choose one or two from

• Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain 1380 -1928
• History of Western political thought
• How do you know? An Introduction to the History of Knowledge
• Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects
• The Making of the Modern Self
• Victorian Values: Religion, Sex, Race and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Choose from over 50 modules, including

• Philosophical Britain: Cultural and Intellectual History, 1895-2012.
• The American Century: The History of the United States, 1900 - 2000
• The British Empire in Political Thought
• The Darwinian Revolution: the History of a Dangerous Idea
• The History of the Emotions
• Totalitarianism: History & Theory of Twentieth Century Authoritarian Politics

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3

The course structure may change slightly as we finalise the curriculum for this new programme.

Compulsory

History special subject and dissertation module in one of 15+ subjects, which may include:

• Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
• The Idea of ‘the West’: a history from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
• The Kennedy Years
• The Pursuit of Happiness? The Creation of American Capitalism, 1763-1914
• The War on Terror

Choose from over 50 modules, including

• Anxieties of Empire: Rumours Rebellion and the Imperial Imagination
• Reinventing Ourselves: Psychology, Sex and Chemistry in Modern Britain
• Solitude in Life and Literature in the Enlightenment
• The Enlightenment (I) and (II)
• The Troubles in Northern Ireland

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Intellectual History BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.