History (Joint Honours)

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You can also start this course in January

What is joint honours?

With joint honours, you can study for an honours degree in two or even three subjects. Find out more about joint honours, including what subjects you can combine with this one.

Why choose this course?

Our BA (Hons) History programme has achieved 100% in the National Student Survey for overall satisfaction with the course, for the last two consecutive years.

It has achieved 100% in the National Student Survey for overall satisfaction with the course, for the last two consecutive years.
As well as learning in the classroom, you'll also have the chance to undertake fieldwork at a range of locations from country houses to industrial cities, exploring both the practical and intellectual applications of history.
You'll also have the opportunity to inspire others by organising and marketing a public history conference. Every year our second year students research and write a paper to deliver at a public conference, which not only means that you'll get the chance to develop your transferable skills, but also get to share with a wider audience your passion for the past.

About the course

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.

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Your career

You'll go on fieldtrips to places of historical importance while studying the History (Joint Honours) course.

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.

How you're assessed

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.

Fieldtrips

You'll be offered the chance to undertake fieldwork at a range of locations from rural country houses to industrial Manchester. By visiting a variety of museums, art galleries, heritage sites and towns the practical and intellectual applications of history can be considered and courses can be placed into context of the current physical and heritage environments. Derby and Derbyshire contain numerous places of international and national importance, particularly the Derwent Valley World Heritage site. The fieldtrips form part of a lively programme of social and extra-curricular events run by staff and students.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012
January 2013

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012
January 2013

UCAS code

Popular courses that you can combine with History include:

American Studies
English
Creative Writing
Business Management
Popular Culture and Media
Law
Architectural Design
Criminology

Fees

This is a classroom based subject.

UK/EU students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £6,995 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £7,495 per year.

Part time:

You usually take 18 of these modules in total for your course

Modules from classroom based subjects will cost £875 per module.
Modules from resource intensive subjects will cost £935 per module.
Modules from specialist subjects will cost £1,000 per module.

International students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with another classroom based subject or a resource intensive subject it will cost £9,700 per year.
If you combine this subject with a specialist subject it will cost £9,975 per year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

More information about our fees for September 2012 and the support available