BA - History

Entry Requirements

• GCE A-level BBB (all subjects considered).
• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma D*DD in a related subject.
• BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in a related subject with an A-level at grade A.
• BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-levels grade BB.
• International Baccalaureate Diploma30 points.
• Access to Higher Education Diploma Complete and pass a related subject Access course with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher.

​English Language Requirements:

• IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
• Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
• BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)

Curriculum

Year 1

• Revolution, Liberty and the Origins of American Democracy
• What is History?
• Capital Labour and Power: 1707-1939
• History, Memory and Culture in Europe Since 1789
• The Making of the Modern World
• Migration and the Settler World: 1600-1914

Year 2

• US Foreign Policy from World War II to the end of the Cold War
• The Birth of Industrial Britain, 1750-1850
• Historians and their Craft

Options

• Democracy and Democratisation
• Total War in the Modern Era
• The Holocaust
• Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

Year 3

• History Dissertation

Options

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Empire, Imperialism, Hegemony
• India and the World: the International Relations of a Rising Power
• Media, Politics and Power in America
• Intelligence and National Security
• Theory and Practice of Cultural Diversity
• Fascism
• The Second World War
• The History and Politics of Heritage
• History, Travel and the Sea
• Rethinking Modern Europe: Borders, Nations and Identities since 1850