A levels, AAA including an A in either History or Classical Civilisation
Access to Higher Education Diploma, Obtain Access to HE Diploma with 39 credits at Distinction including at least 9 credits in History-related units and 6 credits at Merit or higher.
BTEC National Extended Diploma, DDD with an additional A Levels or equivalent qualification in History or Classical Civilisation at grade A
Cambridge Pre-U, D3, D3, D3 including History
European Baccalaureate, 85% overall, including 85% in History
International Baccalaureate, 36 points including 6 in History at Higher Level
International foundation programme, Foundation Certificate from our International Pathway College or an appropriate alternative.
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
IELTS (Academic and Indicator), 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component
C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component
Duolingo, 110 overall, with a minimum of 100 in each component
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language), Grade C
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT, B2 Communicator High Pass with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
PTE Academic, 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component
TOEFL, 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component
Trinity ISE III, Merit in all components
Understanding the past is crucial to responding to the political challenges of the future.
This exciting combined degree in History and Politics will help you attain a global understanding of events, institutions and structures. You'll explore how human society works now, and how it has worked in the past. You'll analyse the meaning of ideas such as freedom and democracy, and investigate the factors that have shaped society and culture around the world over time.
You'll join two highly respected research intensive departments, being taught by academics at the forefront of their field. You'll graduate with the knowledge and the practical skills to play your part in tackling some of the world’s most important problems.
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Year 1
You'll begin examining the broader concepts of how history has shaped the modern world. At the same time, your required Politics modules will focus on contemporary politics with an emphasis on the state. You'll also take one Politics module of your choice.
Core modules
You will take core modules:
Evidence and Methods
Group Research Project
Political Communities in World History
What is Politics?
Option modules
You will choose from a selection of Politics option modules, examples of which may include:
Introduction to Democratic Politics
Introduction to International Politics
Introduction to Political Theory
Year 2
Your second year in the History and Politics degree will be about preparing for your final dissertation and reports. You'll begin to design your project and learn how to use the tools needed to complete it. Political Text and Process options examine underlying philosophies, and how they're put into practice.
Core module
Disciplines of History 1
Option modules
You will choose from a selection of Histories and Contexts option modules, examples of which may include:
Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
Ending European Empires: Decolonization after 1945 in Comparative Perspective
From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
Histories in Public: Understandings of the Past in Today's Society
Kingship, Rule and Mythmaking: England 1065-1307
Narrators and Historical Memory in the Middle Ages
Righteous Might: American Politics and Society since 1877
The Tudor Regime: Power, Propaganda and Faith, 1485-1603
You will choose from a selection of Explorations option modules, examples of which may include:
An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
Black Radicalism in the Americas
Britain and the World Since 1945
British Police and the Democratic Idea since 1829
Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
Law and Society in Later Medieval England (c.1300-1500)
Revolutions, Scandals and Reforms: British Political Culture, 1688-1832
The British Atlantic World, 1576-1692: From Roanoke Colony to the Salem Witch Trials
The Color Line: Race and Empire in British, French and North American Worlds, c.1860-1945
The Good World: Visions of Rule and Power in Italy, 1200-1400
The Long Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. since 1865
The Making of England, c.850-1066
The Pursuit of Happiness: The Politics of Leisure and Pastime in Twentieth-Century America
Uniting the Kingdom: Britishness and the Four Nations, 1707-1815
Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
What News?' People and Politics in Early Modern Britain
Wild Things: A Cultural History of Animals, 1700-1900
You will choose from a selection of Politics option modules, examples of which may include:
Contemporary Political Philosophy
History of Political Thought
State, Economy and Society
Empire, War and Law
The Politics of Gender
Democracy, Autocracy and the State
Politics in the United Kingdom
The European Union: Politics and Policies
Politics of Development
The Rising Powers
War and Peace
The United States and Global Politics After the Cold War
Human Rights and Wrongs in the Globalised World
Critical Global Security Studies
Global Political Economy
Year 3
In your final year, you'll take a specialised, in-depth module on a particular historical topic, along with Politics module options. You'll also write a 10,000-word dissertation on a political or history topic of your choice.
Dissertation
History Dissertation
Politics Dissertation
Option modules
You will choose from a selection of History Special Subject option modules, examples of which may include:
Fantasy and Friction: US-Middle East Relations from 1945
Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
Inquisitors and Heretics in the High Middle Ages
Ireland in the Age of Revolution
Joan of Arc
John Stuart Mill and Victorian Britain
Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
Reading and Writing in Late-Medieval England
Rebellion and Revolution: The British Civil Wars, 1637-51
Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
The French Wars of Religion, 1559-94
The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
You will choose from a selection of Politics option modules, examples of which may include:
Gender and Political Theory
Knowledge and Ignorance in Democratic Politics
The Idea of Liberty
Political Participation and Democracy
Green Politics
British Foreign Policy after the Cold War
Territory and Conflict in the former Soviet Union
Regionalism in World Politics
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Global Politics of Nuclear Weapons
Governing the Global Economy
Contemporary Politics of South Asia
Governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power
Politics and the Novel
'We the people': Ideas of Democratic Representation from Rousseau to Occupy
Karl Marx
Politics and the Street
The Labour Party ad Britain's Struggle for Socialism
Policy Analysis in Theory and Practice
Global Sustainability and Energy Policy
Political Economy of the New Europe
Political Transition in the Middle East: A Century of Conflict
The Politics of Security in Africa
Statebuilding and Political Transition in South East Asia
The Global Food System
Ethnicity and Conflict
Ethics and Public Policy (PEP)
Our graduates have gone on to work in sectors such as:
law
social work
justice
local and national government
public administration and NGOs
finance and accountancy
teaching and academia
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year