Undergraduate Courses

Undergraduate students can expect the opportunity to study a period of more than 1000 years over a wide geographical range, including Europe, Eurasia, America, Britain and Ireland. There are notable opportunities for students in numerous sub-specialisms: transnational and international history, regional culture, the history of ideas, urban history, imperialism, war and totalitarianism, migration and ethnic violence or contemporary America. We also place a strong emphasis on thematic approaches to History including race, gender, ethnicity and class.

Teaching methods include lectures and seminars, although we lay considerable emphasis on our one-to-one tutorial system which allows students to gain specific support with their work. Assessment for this degree is largely by essay and examination, although both of these come in a variety of forms. There is also an opportunity to develop oral skills and, in the final year, students have the opportunity to undertake an important piece of independent research, the dissertation.

Students are also given the opportunity to take up a work placement in a school, college, gallery, archive, museum or other heritage site in order to learn how History is applied in the real world. All History students are able to spend part of their second year studying at one of our partner institutions in Europe, the USA and Australia.

If you wish to learn more about our programmes and applications procedures, please go to the History course catalogue by visiting the 'Undergraduate History Programmes' link above, choose the programme you are interested in and then click on 'Modules'. Alternatively, please use the search box at the top of the page and search for the different History degrees on offer.