BA - History

Entry Requirements

• Relevant qualifications accepted by the university.

English Language Requirements:

• IELTS: 6.5
• TOEFL: 90
• Pearson: 61
• Cambridge CPE: C
• Cambridge CAE: C
• Cambridge CPE and CAE: 176
• TEEP: 6.5
• OIBEC: Pass
• ESOL (Skills for Life): Level 1

Curriculum

First Year

• Making History
• Barbarism and Civilisation: Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• The Shock of the Modern
• People and Places
• American History since 1877
• Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation

Second Year

• Perceiving the Past
• Historical Research Methods
• Slavery, The Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
• Deliverance and Disorder in the Early Modern City
• Stormtroops, Blackshirts, Arrow Cross: Fascist Movements in Europe, 1919-1945
• The Rage of Party: Politics, Religion and Culture in the reign of Queen Anne 1702- 1714
• Living with Dictatorship: European Societies 1918-1941
• Heritage Field Project

Final Year

• Dissertation
• The Holocaust: Genocide in Europe
• How Soon Is Now? A Social History of Urban England, 1945-1985
• Ideals of Womanhood in 19th Century America
• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c. 1350-1650
• The Medieval Natural World
• A Land of Legends and Heroes? Ancient Greece in the Modern World