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History and Philosophy (Placement Year) BA Hons
History and Philosophy (Placement Year) BA Hons

History and Philosophy (Placement Year) BA Hons

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  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

English Requirements

  • IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

Course Information

Year 1

Core

  • From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians

Optional

  • From Great War to Total War?

  • 'Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World'

  • Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800

  • The Fall of Rome

  • 'Witches', Warriors and Slavers: Exploring the History of Lancaster

Year 2

Core

  • Making History: Contexts, Sources and Publics

Optional

  • A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present

  • After Vietnam: Remembering, Representing and Refighting the 'Bad War'

  • Athens, Sparta and Alexander the Great, 403-31 BC

  • Athens, Sparta and the Greek World (c. 800-404 B.C.)

  • Between Two Worlds: Russian History 1825-1914

  • Britain in the Twentieth Century

  • Byzantine and Muslim Sicily (535-1072)

  • Crusade and Jihad: Holy War in the Middle East, 1095-1254

  • Culture and Society in England, 1500-1750

  • From Education to Employment: History Work Placement Module

  • From Mining to Mountaineering: Industry and Culture in the Lake District, 1500?Today

  • Gandhi and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1948

  • In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain Since 1970

  • In Search of the Underclass: Politics and Poverty in Britain, 1880-1970

  • Inventing Human Rights, 1776-2001

  • Mapping Terra Incognita: Travel and Exploration in The Atlantic and Pacific Worlds 1492-1642

  • Medicine, Life and Death, 1800 to the Present

  • Nature and culture 1500-1700: Themes from the Renaissance

  • New World Order 1919-1939

  • Norman England, 1066- 1154: Conquest, Colonisation and Conflict

  • Partisans and Collaborators: World War II in Occupied Europe

  • Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century

  • Sex, Babies and the Reproduction of the Nation, 1800 to the Present

  • Slavery & Freedom: North America, 1620-1800

  • The Cold War in Europe

  • The English Civil War (1640-1660)

  • The History of the United States, 1789-1865

  • The History of the United States, 1865-1989

  • The Making and Unmaking of Heroes in German History: from Warriors and a People's Queen to Film Stars and a Football Team.

  • The Making of Germany, 843-1122

  • The Origins and Rise of Islam (600-1250 AD)

  • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1865

  • The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901

  • The Wartime Gender Contract & the Combat Taboo in 20th century Britain.

  • Three Colours, One Flag, One Empire: the French Colonial World, 1791-1962

  • Virginia, (1585-1685): adventure, war and tobacco in the first American colony

  • Writing History: Questions, Methods, Conclusions

Year 4

Optional

  • A Global History of the Cold War

  • Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960

  • Anarchy and society in the Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720

  • Bede and his World, c.660-740

  • Dissertation

  • Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories

  • La nouvelle histoire: Twentieth-Century Historiography in France and Beyond

  • Poverty in England c.1580-1780

  • Private Lives and Public Policy: Evacuation, Memory, and the Second World War

  • Science and Society in England, 1640-1688

  • Society and the Divine in Ancient Greece

  • The Normans in Italy (1050-1194)

  • The Politics of Memory: The Contested Past in Museums, Monuments, and Minds

  • 'The Shock of the New': Modernity and the Modernisms of American Culture, 1877-1919

  • The Third Reich and Film

  • 'These Beastly Obscenities': Monuments, Images and Antiquities in Imperial India

  • Vikings and Sea-Kings: Power and Plunder in the Irish Sea Region, 794-1079

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Our graduates have a number of career paths open to them, including journalism and publishing, marketing, PR and retail management. Core skills including independent research, critical analysis and effective presentation have enabled recent graduates to gain roles with major employers including Marks & Spencer, Santander, BskyB and Sainsbury’s. 

The interdisciplinary research methodologies, critical analysis, organisational and writing skills developed over the course of our degrees can lead to career destinations including business, marketing, the media, publishing, the Civil Service and the public sector. 

Many of our graduates decide to progress to postgraduate studies with us or other institutions, often entering into research and teaching positions

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Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year

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