History (Joint Honours)

UCAS code: Y002

Start date: September

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

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

This course is not just intellectually challenging and politically relevant, it's also entertaining, inspiring and moving. We want you to have more skills and abilities than those traditionally associated with history graduates. So as well as developing your academic skills, you'll learn how to apply your historical knowledge to different roles.

As part of this course, you'll have the chance to do fieldwork at a range of locations from rural country houses to industrial Manchester. You'll visit a variety of museums, art galleries, heritage sites and towns, so you can explore the practical and intellectual applications of history.

Derbyshire is home to a wealth of nationally and internationally important historical places and museum collections, including the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site, Kedleston Hall, the Joseph Wright Gallery in the City Museum, Pickford's House, Chatsworth House and Calke Abbey.

• BA (Hons) in American Studies and History
• BSc (Hons) in Applied Criminology and History
• BA (Hons) in Architectural Design and History
• BA (Hons) in Biology and History
• BA (Hons) in Business Management and History
• BA (Hons) in Creative Writing and History
• BA (Hons) in Dance & Movement Studies and History
• BA (Hons) in Education Studies and History
• BA (Hons) in English and History
• BA (Hons) in Film & Television Studies and History
• BA (Hons) in Geography and History
• BSc (Hons) in Geology and History
• BA (Hons) in History and Human Resource Management
• BA (Hons) in History and Law
• BA (Hons) in History and Marketing
• BA (Hons) in History and Mathematics
• BA (Hons) in History and Third World Development
• BA (Hons) in History and Zoology
• BA (Hons) in Media Studies and History

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

Stage one

You'll study this module:

• Historical Methods and Sources

And you'll choose from these modules:

• 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 take this module:

• Research Project

And you'll choose from these modules:

• Close Encounters: European Imperialism and Decolonization, 1757-1960
• Society, Culture and Politics in the First World War
• 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
• Public History: Marketing and Presenting the Past
• Work-based Learning in the Cultural and Creative Industries

Stage three

You will take one of these modules:

• History Independent Study (double module)
• Work-based Learning (double module)

And you'll choose from 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
• Historians and Material Culture
• Yugoslavia and After: 1980 to the present
• Landscape History

Entry requirements for January 2013

Our entry requirements are usually 260-300 UCAS points from A levels, including a Grade C in Classical Studies, History or Politics, or equivalent qualifications, such as a BTEC National Diploma, Scottish Highers etc. If you've completed an Access/Foundation course, we also accept these qualifications.

Entry requirements for September 2013

Our entry requirements are usually 220-300 UCAS points, of which at least 200-240 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) including a Grade C in Classical Studies, History or Politics, or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

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.

Fees for 2013/14

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £7,700 (each year)
• £965 per module (you usually take 18 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £9,945 (per 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.

You'll be assessed by 100% coursework.

This will include 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.

When you graduate, you'll have a wide choice of career options, including teaching, working in the museums and heritage industry, working in libraries and archives, law, accountancy, working in the civil service, journalism, commercial management, marketing, retail sales, human resources, and the police and armed services.

If you want to carry on studying, you can move on to further training or postgraduate research.

Our graduates have moved onto a variety of occupations and further studies. Posts have been taken up in business, retail management, healthcare management and education in the UK and overseas.

Andrew Syk who was a prize winner in the 2004 Royal Historical Society undergraduate dissertation prize, had his dissertation published in the History Today magazine. He recently completed DPhil at the University of Oxford.