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 must take at least one module from History and one from Politics with the final 40 credits being taken from either History and/or Politics modules listed below:
History modules
Politics modules
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
- HIS2012 Clash of Civilizations: Islam, the Crusades and the Mongol Invasions
- HIS2039 The Modern Caribbean
- HIS2072 Anglo-Saxon England: from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, 410-1066
- HIS2077 Russia under Lenin and Stalin, 1917 - 1953
- HIS2078 Approaches to the History of Western Medicine
- HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
- HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires, 1783-1975
- HIS2123 The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
- HIS2131 American Slavery, American Freedom: Forging the United States of America
- HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
- HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s - 1947
- HIS2026 Japan since 1868
- HIS2047 Twentieth-Century Cuba: From Jose Marti to the Buena Vista Social Club
- HIS2084 Europe’s Reformations
- HIS2086 Twentieth Century France 1914-1995
- HIS2087 A Civilian's War: the Second World War, 1939-1945
- HIS2102 The Making of the Two Irelands, 1801-2000
- HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
- HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland: Germany’s Past
- HIS2128 Modern Greece
- LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: from Independence to the Mexican Revolution 1789-1917
Politics modules
Stage 3
Optional modules
You choose modules from the History and Politics lists below, totalling no more than 60 credits from each subject. Some prerequisites may apply.
History modules
Politics modules