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 Case Studies - 20 credits
- Working With the Past – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Danger! Censorship, Power and the People – 20 credits
- Digital Cultures: Exploring the Digital in The Humanities and Social Sciences – 20 credits
- Fear and Fun: Popular Culture And Elite Anxieties – 20 credits
- Imagined Communities: Ethnicity and National Identity – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Rethinking Nazi Germany: Politics, History, Society – 20 credits
- Slavery and Antislavery in the Atlantic World – 20 credits
- Study Abroad – 60 credits
- Underworlds: Crime, Deviance & Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900 – 20 credits
- The Extraordinary and The Everyday: People, Places And Possessions – 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: Societies in Revolution - 20 credits
Optional modules
- Dissertation (History) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness - 20 credits
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity - 20 credits
- Emotions and Social Life - 20 credits
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice - 20 credits
