Newcastle University

History BA Honours
UCAS Code: V100 (3 Years)

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Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• HIS1025 World Empires
• HIS1030 Evidence and Argument
• HIS1029 Varieties of History

Optional modules 

You choose up to three modules from the list below:

• HIS1044 Aspects of British History
• HIS1045 Themes in European History
• HIS1046 The History of the Americas

You may choose up to 40 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Stage 2

Optional modules 

You choose a minimum of two modules from the list below:

• HIS2014 Japan since 1868
• HIS2019 The End of Imperial China
• HIS2021 Slavery and Antislavery in the Atlantic World, c. 1740-1863
• HIS2084 Europe’s Reformations
• HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
• HIS2114 Death, Dying and the dead in early modern England 1500 - 1800
• HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
• HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India
• ARA2098 Understanding Historic Landscapes: from the Early Middle Ages to the 21st Century

You choose up to four modules from the following list:

• HIS2031 Between Revolutions: Britain, 1688-1789
• HIS2037 Progress and Plenty? British History, 1815-1918
• HIS2039 The Modern Caribbean
• HIS2047 Twentieth-century Cuba: From Jose Marti to the Buena Vista Social Club
• HIS2050 The European Enlightenment, 1700-1789
• HIS2077 Russia Under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953
• HIS2085 Pre-Columbian and Spanish America
• HIS2086 Twentieth Century France 1914-1995
• HIS2102 The Making of the Two Irelands, 1801-2000
• HIS2113 Italian Unification: Nation, Religions, Revolution, 1796-1871
• HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires, 1783-1975
• HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
• HIS2126 The difficult Fatherland: Germany’s Past
• ARA2097 Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (post 1492)
• LAS2026 Comparative History of Latin America I: From Independence to the End of Slavery (1789/1810-1888)

You may choose up to 40 credits of modules from elsewhere in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

It is also possible to spend a semester studying abroad at one of our partner institutions in Europe.

• HIS2100 Erasmus Student exchange
• HIS2101 Erasmus Student exchange

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

• HIS3000 Reading History
• HIS3020 Writing History

Optional modules 

You choose two modules from the following list:

• HIS3004 The English Revolution, 1640-1660
• HIS3021 Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• HIS3023 Japan and the Maritime World, 1884-1905
• HIS3024 War and Revolution in China, 1895-1949
• HIS3025 May 1968: all power to the imagination
• HIS3040 Civil Rights in America, 1948-1975
• HIS3078 England 1714-1820: Birth of a Consumer Society
• HIS3079 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain
• HIS3081 The American Civil War, 1861-1865
• HIS3083 The Russian Revolution
• HIS3084 The Mexican Revolution
• HIS3085 Post-revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas
• HIS3086 Genocide
• HIS3096 Nazi Germany
• HIS3103 Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c.1714-1830
• HIS3105 Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
• HIS3108 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
• HIS3118 Hogarth! The Artist and his Life in Georgian London 1697 - 1764
• HIS3121 Viking-Age Scandinavia
• HIS3128 France and the Maghreb, 1830 - Present

Other optional modules may also be available, including the following:

• HIS3011 Extended Study
• HIS3012 Extended Study
• LAS4001 Inter-American Relations Since the Spanish-American War (1898)