BA (Hons) History

UCAS code: V100

Start date: September and January

Course length: full time: three years, part time: four-six years.

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

You can also study History (Joint Honours) as part of a Joint Honours degree.

This course is not only intellectually challenging and politically relevant, it's also entertaining, inspiring and moving. With a strong focus on modern and contemporary history you'll explore the past using a variety of approaches and so develop the critical, theoretical and transferable skills vital for both academic and career success. You'll also have the chance to do fieldwork at a range of locations from country houses to industrial Manchester, visiting a variety of museums, art galleries, and heritage sites, exploring both the practical and intellectual applications of history.

You'll study a total of 120 credits per year. This will be made up of single or double modules.

Stage one

You will study these modules:

• Historical Methods and Sources
• Religion, Empire and Ideas: The Making of British Identity, 1485-1789
• Britain in the Age of Innovation, 1790-1914
• Renaissance and Enlightenment: Europe, 1453-1789
• Romanticism and Revolution: Europe, 1789-1914
• Reaction, Reform and Revolution: Russia, 1825-1924

Stage two

You will study these modules:

• Close Encounters: European Imperialism and Decolonization, 1757-1960
• Public History: Marketing and Presenting the Past
• Research Project 
• Society, Culture and Politics in the First World War

And you'll choose two of these modules:

• Behind Closed Doors: Gender and Sex, 1685-1870
• The Making of Modern Medicine
• Triumph of the Dark: Europe Between the Wars, 1918-1939
• Goodbye Lenin: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
• European Cultural Identities and Ethnic Minorities
• Work-based Learning in the Cultural and Creative Industries

Stage three

You will study one of these modules:

• History Independent Study
• Work-based Learning

And you'll choose four of these modules:

• British Country Houses and their Families
• The People's War, The People's Peace: Britain 1939-1951
• Continuity and Change in Contemporary Britain
• Beyond Opium and Take-Aways: China and the World since 1839
• Keeping the Peace? Conflict, Power and Diplomacy since 1945
• French History: Culture and Society, 1940-1962
• Yugoslavia and After: 1980 to the present
• Historians and Material Culture
• Landscape History

Our entry requirements are usually 260 UCAS points, of which at least 220 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

You will need a Grade C at A Level (or equivalent) in Classical Studies, History or Politics.

We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions team.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

The UCAS tariff points are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

General undergraduate entry requirements

Fees for 2013/14

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £7,700 (each year)

We'll be announcing our part time and international fees for 2013/14 later in the year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

How you'll learn

Through lectures, seminars, self directed study, tutorials, film screenings, sources workshops, and work based learning. Each module requires two hours attendance per week per module.

How you're assessed

You are assessed on 100% coursework. You are assessed on 100% coursework. This will incorporate a range of different formats, including essays, document analysis, the examination of material culture and the built environment, book reviews, projects, website design, posters and exhibitions, oral presentations and debating skills.

A history degree can enable you to follow a wide range of careers from teaching, working in archives, libraries and museums, to employment opportunities in law, the civil service, management, marketing and the uniformed services. At Derby we enable you to develop skills and abilities beyond those traditionally associated with history graduates. So as well as gaining academic skills, our degree offers you the opportunity to enhance your employability and to apply your historical knowledge to the workplace.