Each year of the programme carries 120 credit points.
In first year students must take 60 credits of
level-eight History courses: The Historian's Toolkit (20
credits), Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle
Ages (20 credits) and Early Modern History: A Connected
World (20 credits), plus 60 credits of outside
subject(s). In second year students must take 60 credits
of level-eight History courses: Introduction to
Historiography (20 credits) plus 40 credits from Making
and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Scotland, Wales
and Ireland, c. 1100-1500; Britain, Ireland and Empire
c. 1800-2000; Themes in Modern European History; Modern
United States History; Global Connections, 1450 to the
present (20 credits each), plus 60 credits of outside
subject(s). In the third year, you will take four
level-ten 20-credit (one-semester) Elective courses, as
well as two compulsory courses: Skills and Methods in History
I and II. In the fourth year, two level-ten Special
Subject, 40-credit, courses which run over both
semesters. You will also write a level-ten dissertation
of 8,000-12,000 words (40 credits).
Progression
To progress from Year 1 to Year 2, passes are required
in all first year courses (120 credits); to progress
from Year 2 into Year 3 passes are required in all of
the courses taken in second year (120 credits).
Entry into Honours normally requires (i) passes in 240
credits of courses taken in the first two years, which
must include all compulsory first year History courses,
and (ii) passes at 50% or above, achieved at the first
attempt, in 60 credits of second year compulsory History
courses, which must include Introduction to
Historiography
Progression from third to fourth year is dependent upon
the completion of at least eighty credits and the award
of an aggregate pass for the 120 credits of study in
third year.
Exit awards
- Certificate of Higher Education: year one
- Diploma of Higher Education: year two
- BA in Humanities and Social Science: year three
(although entry to honours means the commencement of
two years of integrated study leading to an honours
degree and not all students will be qualified for the
BA HSS)
- MA Honours in History: year four
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