Politics and History BA Honours
UCAS Code: VL12
(3 Years)
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
Optional modules
You choose two History modules and two Politics modules from the lists below:
History modules
Politics modules
You take a further module from either the History or Politics list. Other optional modules may also be available from outside History and Politics.
Stage 2
Optional modules
You choose three History modules and three Politics modules from the lists below. You must take at least one History module and at least one Politics module in each semester.
History modules
- ARA2097 Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (post 1492)
- HIS2014 Japan since 1868
- HIS2031 Between Revolutions: Britain, 1688-1789
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- HIS2050 The European Enlightenment, 1700-1789
- HIS2077 Russia under Lenin and Stalin, 1917 - 1953
- HIS2113 Italian Unification: Nation, Religions, Revolution, 1796-1871
- HIS2084 Europe’s Reformations
- HIS2085 Pre-Columbian and Spanish America
- HIS2102 The Making of the Two Irelands, 1801-2000
- HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
- HIS2114 Death, Dying and the Dead in Early Modern England 1500 - 1800
- HIS2086 Twentieth Century France 1914-1995
- HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires, 1783-1975
- HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
- HIS2047 Twentieth-Century Cuba: From Jose Marti to the Buena Vista Social Club
- HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland: Germany’s Past
- HIS2039 The Modern Caribbean
- HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
- HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s - 1947
- HIS2021 Slavery and Antislavery in the Atlantic World, c. 1740-1863
- HIS2019 The End of Imperial China
- HIS2100 Erasmus Student exchange
- HIS2101 Erasmus Student exchange
Politics modules
Stage 3
Optional modules
You choose modules from the History and Politics lists below. Some prerequisites may apply.
History modules
Politics modules