World history ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your World 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.

• Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History
• History in Practice

• Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
• Europe in a Global Context since 1800
• 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
• Europe 1000 - 1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy
• Life and Death in the Victorian Home
• The Foundations of Modern Thought: Introduction to Intellectual History
• Race and the Desire for Difference

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.

• Outsiders in the Middle Ages
• From Muhammad to the Ottomans: A History of Medieval Societies
• Africa in Europe: Renaissance Encounters
• Race in the United States: Slavery to Civil Rights
• From the Tsars to the Bolsheviks: Russia, 1801 - 1921
• Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
• Narratives of the Raj: The History of Modern India, 1757 - 1947
• Freedom and Nationhood: The State in Post-Colonial Africa, 1956 - 2006
• Anglo-American Relations 1939 - 1991
• America Incorporated 1865 - 1939: Railroads, Bankers and the Great West
• Caste and Politics in Twentieth Century India
• Arms, Arts and Agriculture: The Mexican Revolution (1900 - 1940)
• Kingdoms, Empires and Colonialism in African History

• Africa Bound: Politics, Society and Power During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Africa in Europe: Renaissance Encounters
• Gotham: The Making of New York City 1825-2001
• Heritage After Empire: Decolonising Public History
• Piracy in World History
• Race in the United States: Slavery to Civil Rights

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.

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

• Anxieties of Empire: Rumours, Rebellion and the Imperial Imagination
• Slaves on Horses: State and Society under the Mamluks
• The Kennedy Years
• The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-21
• The War on Terror
• The “Heart of Darkness”? Identity, Power and Politics in the Congo, c. 1870 - 2010

• Cold War America 1945 – 1975
• Protest and Revolution in Germany 1789 - 1989
• The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
• The Reform of Islam: The Legacy of Ibn Taymiyya (1263 - 1328)

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 World 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.