BA History (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

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Programme specification

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA History

The School of History has a long-established international reputation for excellence in research and teaching. Our programme is notable for its chronological, geographical, and thematic range. Students have access to the outstanding resources of the university’s Brotherton Library, which houses one of the UK’s largest historical research collections.

This programme will:
• Provide students with an understanding of a range of societies and cultures across a broad chronological and geographical span;
• Enable students to identify and appreciate difference and diversity in interpretations of the past;
• Offer students a wide choice of specialist topics covering many periods, approaches and cultures, drawn from the research expertise of staff in the School;
• Develop students’ skills in the selection and interpretation of primary sources and historical scholarship;
• Develop students’ understanding of the range, value and challenges of primary source material available for historical study;
• Expand students’ knowledge of the uses of the past and the challenges of the historical discipline;
• Allow students to present interpretations based on historical sources, in a variety of formats;
• Develop students’ skills with respect to inclusive historical practice;
• Offer students the opportunity to conduct a supervised research project.

As well as developing students’ subject-specific knowledge and proficiencies, the School of History is committed to promoting students’ wider skills across five specific skill domains. Our graduates will:

Communication:
• Communicate clearly and persuasively with a variety of audiences and through a variety of means, including digitally enabled communication
• Articulate well-reasoned interpretations and arguments in answering meaningful questions about the past and, by implication, the present and future.
Collaboration:
• Work as part of a team as an effective collaborator;
• Engage respectfully in constructive debate.
Research & Analysis:
• Formulate clearly defined research questions;
• Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence.
Independence and reflection:
• Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance;
• Apply effective learning strategies that demonstrate intellectual integrity, maturity, and self-direction;
• Reflect on and evaluate progress and respond positively to constructive feedback;
• Plan and mobilise resources effectively to meet deadlines.
Inclusivity and accessibility:
• Engage positively with issues raised by academic integrity and ethics and the responsibilities that arise through research and the use of the research and writing of others;
• Critically navigate the challenges faced in interpreting complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence.

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Candidates must study 120 credits in total. These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of optional and/or University designated Discovery modules as set out below.

Compulsory Modules

Candidates are required to study the following compulsory modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST1000	Exploring History	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1065	Diverse Histories of Britain	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional Modules

Candidates are required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST1310	The Medieval World in Ten Objects	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1320	Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates are required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST1060	Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST1510	Global Empires	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates are required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST1520	Global Decolonization	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST1530	The Making of the Twentieth Century	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules if needed to bring their overall credits for Level 1 up to 120 credits.
The following Discovery modules are particularly recommended:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
FOAH1100	Creative Africas: Culture and the Arts in Modern Africa	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MEDV1081	Religion and Culture: Medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Candidates must study 120 credits in total. These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of optional and/or University designated ‘Discovery Modules’ as set out below.

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 3 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 3 details of modules for those years will be provided.

Optional Modules

MEDIEVAL HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates are required to study one module from either basket or one module from each basket.
Medieval basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2030	The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2112	Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MEDV2085	Medieval Narratives in the Modern World: Nationalism, Terrorism, Popular Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Medieval basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2045	Transformations of the Roman World	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2110	The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2170	Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages	20	Not running in 202425

EARLY MODERN HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates are required to study one module from the Early Modern Optional basket.

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2065	The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2073	Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2090	Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2135	Britain and the Industrial Revolution	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2315	Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2434	The Global Caribbean, 1641-1848	20	Not running in 202425

MODERN HISTORY OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates are required to study 40 credits of MODERN OPTIONAL MODULES, one from each basket.
Modern basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2152	Spain, 1898-1936: Disaster, Reaction and Reform	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2310	Russia under the Romanovs, 1812-1917	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2360	Bass Culture in Modern Britain	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2432	Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2442	Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2595	Curiosities and Monstrosities: Stuff on Display in Britain, c. 1753-1851	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Modern Basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2077	Colonial Encounters: France and its Empire, 1830-1945	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2103	Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2320	The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2353	America and the Sixties	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2435	The Popular Caribbean: A History	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2441	Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865	20	Not running in 202425

CROSS LISTED WITH BA INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS (Level 2)
Candidates may choose to study one module in this basket.

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2140	Imperial Germany 1871-1918	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2301	The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2309	Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2430	The History of Africa since 1900	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2645	The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST2658	Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

“MAKING HISTORY” MODULES
Candidates may study one of the modules in this basket, which are considered excellent preparation for the Final Year Project.

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST2240	Hands on Heritage	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2260	Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2505	Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2557	Thinking about History	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST2575	Legal Fictions of Slavery, A Documentary	20	Not running in 202425
HIST2590	Public History and Popular Culture	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules if needed to bring their overall credits for Level 2 up to 120 credits.

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Candidates must study 120 credits in total. These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of optional and/or University designated Discovery modules as set out below.

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 3 are not yet available. Before you enter year 3 full details of modules for that year will be provided.

Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules (please note: at least 15 different Special Subject strands will run each year) - History Special Subject (20 Credits)

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST3500	History Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional Modules

Candidates are required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules. Only one choice per basket is allowed. These optional modules will vary year on year.
Level 3 History options, Semester 1
* In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day - 20 Credits

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST3453	The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3723	Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MEDV3411	Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Level 3 History options, Semester 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST3100	Colonial Bodies: Life and Death in British India, 1757-1900	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3493	War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3530	Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3689	Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3724	Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3790	Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Cross Listed with INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITCS

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
HIST3251	Twentieth Century Southeast Asia: From Empire to Independence	20	Not running in 202425
HIST3710	Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3728	The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3877	The World of Terror	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
HIST3880	'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
HIST3999	Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules if needed to bring their overall credits for Level 3 to 120 credits.

Last updated: 23/08/2024 15:10:28

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