History and Archaeology BA Honours
UCAS Code: VV41
(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
You choose a module from either the History or Archaeology pathway below.
History pathway
Archaeology pathway
- ARA1026 Introduction to Archaeological Science
- ARA1028 Prehistoric Britain
- ARA1031 Archaeological Observation and Recording
You choose one further module. We recommend the following:
At the end of Stage 1 you complete at least two weeks of excavation fieldwork.
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
You choose one of the following modules:
Optional modules
You choose two modules from the History pathway and one further module from either the History or Archaeology pathway.
History pathway
- HIS2012 Clash of the Civilisations: Islam, the Crusades and the Mongol Invasions
- HIS2026 Japan since 1868
- HIS2039 The Modern Caribbean
- HIS2047 20th Century Cuba
- HIS2072 Anglo-Saxon England
- HIS2077 Russia under Lenin and Stalin 1917-1953
- HIS2078 History of Medicine
- HIS2084 Europe's Reformations
- HIS2086 20th Century France 1914-1995
- HIS2087 A Civilian's War: The Second World War 1939-1945
- HIS2102 The Making of the Two Irelands 1801-2000
- HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours 500-900
- HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires 1783-1975
- HIS2123 Family, Sex and Society
- HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
- HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland: Germany's Past
- HIS2128 Modern Greece
- HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long 18th Century
- HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India 1880s-1947
- LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispan-America and Brazil
Archaeology pathway
- ARA2001 Archaeological Theory and Interpretation
- ARA2011 Later European Prehistory
- ARA2091 Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian
- ARA2101 Artefacts
- ARA2097 Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (Post 1492)
- ARA2098 Understanding Historic Landscapes: From the Early Middle Ages to the 21st Century
At the end of Stage 2 you complete a further two weeks of fieldwork.
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
You choose one of the following compulsory modules:
Optional modules
You choose one module from the History pathway in Semester 1 and one module from either the History or Archaeology pathway in Semester 2.
History pathway
- HIS3030 History and Society
- HIS3034 The Age of Jefferson
- HIS3017 Elizabeth I: Legitimacy, Authority and Image 1558-1603
- HIS3181 The American Civil War 1861-1865
- HIS3196 Nazi Germany
- HIS3203 Madness, Nerves and Narratives
- HIS3204 The English Revolution 1640-1660
- HIS3205 Fascism in Italy 1914-1945
- HIS3208 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
- HIS3213 Slave Emancipation in the British Empire
- HIS3219 Medieval Spain
- HIS3221 Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Century
- HIS3222 Jarrow Crusade
- HIS3226 Contesting Nationalism in Post-war Japan
- HIS3228 France and the Maghreb 1830-Present
- HIS3232 Northern Ireland since 1969
- HIS3240 Civil Rights in America 1948-1975
- HIS3278 England 1714-1820: Birth of a Consumer Society
- HIS3279 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain 1811-1850
- HIS3285 Post-revolutionary Mexico
- HIS3286 Genocide
- HIS3289 Gorbachev
- HIS3321 Viking Age Scandinavia
- LAS4001 Inter-American Relations since the Spanish-American War 1898
Archaeology pathway
- ARA3013 Early Medieval Britain
- ARA3016 Byzantium and its Neighbours
- ARA3115 Regionality and the Fall of Rome
The following module is also available (prerequisites apply)
