History (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Key Information
Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
36 months
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
History (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
Explore, debate and evaluate some of the key events and ideas that have shaped our world throughout time, while expanding this global knowledge and insight through combining your studies with International Relations or Politics.
Our History programme is diverse, international in focus and innovative. Exploring primarily modern and contemporary history, this course will teach you the skills for effective research and analysis, helping to hone your ability to absorb, understand and communicate complex information.
We cover British, South Asian, European and African and North and South American history alongside the more niche topics of photographic history, the history of sport and leisure, war and conflict, migration, ethnicity and racism, and employability.
We use a mixture of year-long and half-year modules to allow you to study a wide range of different subject and experience a variety of diverse teaching methods and types of assessment. As you progress through the course, we’ll challenge you with more in-depth explorations, and the subject matter will become increasingly complex. You’ll be supported by a passionate teaching team who provide an interactive and dynamic learning environment.
At DMU, you can study History and Politics or History and International Relations as a joint honours course, broadening your understanding of events that shape our world. You will choose 50 per cent of your options from our History modules and 50 per cent from Politics or International Relations modules.
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Curriculum
First year
- Presenting and Representing the Past
- The Making of the Modern World
Second year
Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- British India 1857–1947
- Germany in World War Two (half-year option)
- History and the Workplace
- Histories of the Global South
- Mass Observing Britain in War and Peace, 1936-1951 (half-year option)
- Sport in 20th Century Britain (half-year option)
- The Cold War
- The Historian’s Craft: Sources and Methods in History (Compulsory for joint honours students wishing to do a History dissertation in third year).
- Visualising the Modern World 1860-1950 (half-year option)
Third year
Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- Borders and Boundaries: Legacies of Colonial Rule: India and Pakistan since 1947
- Dissertation
- Environment and Society in the Americas (half-year option)
- Jews in Twentieth Century Britain (half-year option)
- Photography and Conflict (half-year option)
- Textual Studies Using Computers
- The Olympics (half-year option)
- US Presidency
- Yugoslavia and Beyond
Program Outcome
Graduates also have the opportunity to undertake further studies with courses such as our History MA or Sports History and Culture MA.
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Career Opportunities
Our graduates have gone on to pursue successful careers in various professions including teaching, law, public relations, marketing, journalism, civil service and the heritage and museum sectors.
Program delivery
This course is also available in part-time study options.