History with French, Mandarin or Spanish 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 with French, Mandarin or Spanish BA (Hons)
Studying the past helps to inform our understanding and choices of the future. By combining your cultural, political and social awareness of global history with a modern foreign language, you can amplify your knowledge of the world around you.
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 and 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 subjects 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.
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Curriculum
First year
- Presenting and Re-Presenting the Past
- The Making of the Modern World
- Twentieth Century Europe
- Language module
Second year
Students choose three year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- Language module (compulsory)
- 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 three year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- Language module (compulsory)
- 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 such as in History MA or the Sports History and Culture MA at DMU.
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Career Opportunities
Graduate careers
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.