Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Beliefs, Communities and Conflicts: Europe 1400-1750 - 20 credits
- Discovering World Histories: Peoples and Places - 20 credits
- Societies, Nations and Empires: Europe 1750-2000 - 20 credits
- Thinking Like an Historian - 20 credits
- Traces of the Past: Exploring Lives Through Sources - 40 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Debating the Past: Historical Perspectives – 20 credits
- Working with the Past - 20 credits
Optional Modules
- US Politics - 20 credits
- Women's Writing in the Americas - 20 credits
- Envisioning Ourselves: Media and the Making of Modern Britain, 1850-2000 - 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching - 20 credits
- The Hidden Lives of Things: Material Culture in the Early Modern World - 20 credits
- Underworlds: Crime, Deviance and Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900 - 20 credits
- A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11 - 20 credits
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature - 20 credits
- A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11 - 20 credits
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Slavery and Resistance in the Atlantic World - 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Specialist Option: Empires and Identities - 20 credits
- Specialist Option: Popular Cultures - 20 credits
- US Masculinities - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Dissertation (History) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Civil Rights USA - 20 credits
- Magical Realism - 20 credits