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
- HIS1027 European History
- HIS1044 Aspects of British History
- HIS1025 World Empires
- HIS1029 Varieties of History
- HIS1046 The History of the Americas
Politics modules
- POL1046 Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century
- POL1047 Power, Participation and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives
- POL1017 Governing Under Pressure: The Politics of the UK and EU
- POL1022 Introduction to Political Thought
- POL1032 Introduction to International Politics
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
- POL2012 Politics of the Middle East
- POL2034 The Politics and Policy of the European Union
- POL2078 Critical International Politics
- POL2079 Political Thought: Hobbes to Marx
- POL2088 The Politics of Africa: Africa's Place in Global Politics
- POL2022 Government and Politics of the USA
- POL2080 Political Thought: Conservatism, Nationalism and Fascism
- POL2081 Research Methods in Politics
- POL2082 Political Violence and the Modern State
- POL2087 Contemporary Russian Politics
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
- HIS3020 Writing History
- HIS3000 Reading History
- HIS3107 Queen Elizabeth I: Legitimacy, Authority and Image (1558-1603)
- HIS3181 The American Civil War, 1861-1865
- HIS3196 Nazi Germany
- HIS3205 Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
- HIS3208 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
- HIS3221 Birth Control in 19th and 20th Centuries
- HIS3222 Jarrow Crusade
- HIS3226 Contesting Nationalism in Post-war Japan
- HIS3278 England 1714-1820: The Birth of a Consumer Society
- HIS3279 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain, 1811 - 1850
- LAS4001 Inter-American Relations Since the Spanish-American War (1898)
- HIS3030 History and Society
- HIS3034 The Age of Jefferson
- HIS3228 France and the Maghreb, 1830 - Present
- HIS3232 Civil Rights and Armalites - Northern Ireland since 1969
- HIS3240 Civil Rights in America, 1948-1975
- HIS3285 Post-Revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas
- HIS3286 Genocide
- HIS3289 Gorbachev
- HIS3321 Viking-Age Scandinavia
Politics modules
- POL3046 Dissertation in Politics
- POL3047 Project in Politics: Semester 1
- POL3059 Democracy and the Constitution
- POL3078 Britain and the European Union
- POL3081 International Political Thought
- POL3082 Feminist Political Theory
- POL3090 The Rise and Fall of New Labour
- POL3092 Political Parties and Elections in the UK
- POL3095 The United Nations in a Global World
- POL3100 History of World Political Thought
- POL3048 Project in Politics: Semester 2
- POL3063 European Union: Decision Making Simulation
- POL3077 Global Poverty and Global Politics
- POL3079 The Government and Politics of Italy
- POL3098 War, Genocide, Terror: Understanding Organised Violence
- POL3099 Power, Security and Protest in the Middle East
- POL3101 Postcolonial Politics
