BA (Hons) in History
University of Winchester
Key Information
Campus location
Winchester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 6 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 14,700 / per year *
Application deadline
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Introduction
*Subject to revalidation
- History achieved more than 90% overall satisfaction as rated by final-year undergraduate students in the 2019 National Student Survey
- Choose modules from an exceptionally broad range of topics
- Learn from expert tutors and their cutting-edge research
- Become a critical reader of evidence
- Study in a city steeped in history
- Enjoy trips and talks with our student-led History Society
History helps us to better understand the past and make sense of the world we live in. Our BA in History is an immensely varied and rich course that gives you an in-depth view of the world and the contours and forces at play between economics, society, culture, politics and religion.
Our committed team of historians are passionate about their subjects, which cover a broad range of cultures, wars and traditions spanning 3,500 years. They will help you to mine the past seeking answers to pressing questions from the classical to the modern period in Britain, mainland Europe, the USA and Japan. Within their fields of expertise, you could investigate topics as diverse as Ancient Greek Drinking Culture, Norman Sicily, The Middle ages in Computer Games, Imperial Japan, and the Post-War Teenager.
In Year 1, you are introduced to the study of history at the degree level. We help you to gain a good grounding in historical periods and cultures from around the globe, including Asia, Europe and the Americas. You explore the nature of history as a discipline, its changing assumptions, methods and definitions, and the current concerns of historians.
In Years 2 and 3, you focus on the acquisition of research skills and knowledge as the basis of more specialised study. You choose from a range of optional modules in Year 2 that either focus on how to use original documents or explore, through thematic approaches, continuity and change over a long period of time.
In Year 3, optional modules take the form of Depth Studies and Comparative Studies. An understanding of methodology is developed through Depth Studies, which establish a comprehensive knowledge of a particular period by evaluating the use of primary and secondary sources and any issues associated with them as evidence. Comparative Studies looks at an area of historical concern across more than one country and culture.
This degree is ideal if you want to experience an extensive range of historical subjects and have the maximum flexibility of choice.
Our History degree offers a broad-but-deep experience that can open up multiple career paths. Throughout your degree, you develop transferable skills such as undertaking oral presentations, both as part of a group and individually, and working on shorter assignments like the creation of posters and blogs.
*This course is subject to revalidation. 'Revalidation' is the process by which the University refreshes its existing provision. Revalidation assesses the quality and standards of the programme to ensure it continues to provide a distinct, high-quality academic experience for students, enabling them to acquire the necessary academic knowledge, understanding, and general and subject-specific skills required to pursue a graduate-level career.
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Curriculum
Year 1 (Level 4)
- Case Studies I: Sources and Approaches in History 15
- Case Studies II: Independent Study Project 15
- Perspectives on the Past, Part I 15
- Perspectives on the Past, Part II 15
Optional modules
- British Introductory Module: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066
- International Introductory Module: The United States
- International Introductory Module: Early Modern Europe
- International Introductory Module: Europe 1300-1500
- British Introductory Module: English History 1272-1500
- British Introductory Module: Victorian Britain 1815-1914
- International Introductory Module: East Asia 1900-present
- British Introductory Module: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660
- International Introductory Module: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, 1783 - 1997
- British Introductory Module: Uniting The Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837
- International Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001
- British Introductory Module: Seventeenth century England
- British Introductory Module: Britain in the Twentieth Century
- International Introductory Module: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange
- International Introductory Module: Europe in the Early Middle Ages (c.400-c.888)
- International Introductory Module: Europe in the Central Middles Ages (c.888-1200)
Classics modules:
- Introduction to the Classical Greek World
- Introduction to Classical Greek Literature
- Introduction to Classical Archaeology
- Introduction to the Classical Roman World
- Introduction to Classical Roman Literature
- Introduction to Classical Theatre
Year 2 (Level 5)
- Reading History 15
- Practising History 15
Optional modules
- Work Placement
- Group Project
- Field Trip
- Volunteering Placement
- Value Studies
- Option A: The Carolingian Renaissance
- Option A: The Vikings and the Frankish World
- Option A: The Investiture Contest
- Option A: Norman Sicily, ca 1000-1197
- Option A: English Monasticism
- Option A: The First English Empire: c. 1100 to c. 1350
- Option A: The Reign of King John
- Option A: Culture and Society in Late Medieval England
- Option A: The Crusades
- Option A: The Golden Age of Spain
- Option A: Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485-1558
- Option A: The Global Hispanic World (1760s-1960s)
- Option A: Victorian Culture and Society
- Option A: Imperial Japan
- Option A: The British Raj, from the 'Indian Mutiny' to Gandhi - 1857-1947
- Option A: The American South 1865-1970
- Option A: Edwardian Britain
- Option A: Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1924
- Option A: Nazism and the Holocaust
- Option A: From Austerity to Affluence: Everyday Life in Post-war Britain
- Option A: The Human Explosion: Energy, Industrialization and Environment, 1750 to the Present
- Option B: The Age of the Vikings
- Option B: Post-Carolingian Rulership
- Option B: Societies at War – England and France, 1189-1529
- Option B: Textiles in the Medieval World
- Option B: Food and Drink in Medieval and Early Modern England
- Option B: The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700
- Option B: The Renaissance Court: Power. Politics and Patronage
- Option B: Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914
- Option B: Culture, Society and Economy in Early Modern England
- Option B: Exploring Past Localities
- Option B: The Rise of the High-Speed Society (18th-20th centuries)
- Option B: American Slavery
- Option B: History’s Eye – Photography and Society
- Option B: Sisterhood – Before and After Feminism in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Option B: Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
- Option B: ‘Subordinate Independence’: Japan’s Relationship with the US 1945-present
- Option B: Stalinism
- Option B: Dreams and Nightmares: Britain in 20th-Century Europe
- Option B: Climate, Culture and Catastrophe in the Modern World: The Making of the Anthropocene
- The Glory of Athens & the Shadow of Sparta
- Rome: The Rise of the Eternal City
- The Symposium: Ancient Greek Drinking Culture
- Alexander the Great
- Imperial Rome
- The Culture of Neoclassicism
- Political and Religious Themes in the Modern Near and Middle East
- War on Terror
- Exploring Teaching as a Career
Year 3 (Level 6)
- Dissertation in History 30
- Writing History 15
- History and the Public Sphere 15
Optional modules
- Field Trip
- Work Placement
- Depth Study: The Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453
- Depth Study: Alfred the Great
- Depth Study: The Wars of the Roses 1450-1499
- Depth Study: Civil War and Revolution in the British Isles
- Depth Study: The United States and the Cold War 1945-63
- Depth Study: Japan at War and Under Occupation 1937-52
- Depth Study: The Home Front: the United Kingdom 1939-1945
- Depth Study: The French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
- Depth Study: Society, Culture and Everyday Life in Russia: 1928-1985
- Depth Study: The Norman Conquest
- Depth Study: Interwar Britain
- Depth Study: The Italian Wars 1494-1516 and 1521-1559
- Depth Study: The Henrician & Edwardian Reformation and the Marian Counter-Reformation
- Depth Study: Genocide in History and Memory I and II
- Depth Study: Ruling England in the Second Viking Age, Part I: Kingdoms Lost and Won and Part II: Political Cultures
- Depth Study: Norman Worlds I (Normandy and the British Isles) and II (Southern Italy and Crusader Kingdoms)
- Depth Study: The Anglo-Norman Civil War, 1120-1148 and 1148-1162
- Depth Study: The Emergence of the Italian City Communes (c.1050-c.1150) and The Dominance of the Italian City
- Communes (c.1150-c.1250).
- The Age of Napoleon in global perspective - I and II
- Depth Study: The Emergence of Modern Environmentalism I & II: The Discovery of Nature and The Crisis of Nature
- The Post-war Teenager, 1945-1979 Part 1 and Part 2
- Depth Study: The USSR after Stalin, 1953-1964 and 1964-1985
- Depth Study: Greek Rhetoric: The Sophists and Lysias & Demosthenes
- Depth Study: The Black Death Part 1 and Part 2
- Depth Study: The Maghreb, Colonialism and Its Aftermath in North Africa and France 1827-1914 and 1914-Present
- Comparative Study: Supernatural and Witchcraft Beliefs in the British Isles, Continental Europe and America c.1450-1800
- Comparative Study: Chivalry
- Comparative Study: Minorities in the Past
- Comparative Study: Mediterranean Fascism: Conflict and Dictatorship in Spain and Italy 1914-1947
- Comparative Study: War Crimes Trials and Memories of War: Japan and Germany
- Comparative Study: Religious Reform in Sixteenth-Century Europe
- Comparative Study: Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
- Comparative Study: The Monstrous Regiment: Gender and Authority in Early Modern Europe
- Comparative Study: Nation Making in Early Modern Europe
- Comparative Study: Holocaust Memory and Representation in Europe, the United States & Israel
- Comparative Study: Ideas, Ideologies and Colonial Organisation in the British and French Empires
- Comparative Study: Borderlands and Commodities In History
- Comparative Study: Medieval Hostageships
- Comparative Study: Gender and Authority in Early Medieval Europe
- Comparative Study: Warfare in the Medieval West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
- Comparative Study: The Middle Ages in Computer Games
- Comparative Study: Apocalypse Then and Now! Disasters in World History
- Comparative Study: The ‘Swinging’ Sixties
- Depth Study: The Pax Romana – Dynastic Stories
- Depth Study: Herodotus. Tall Tales & Epic Histories
- Depth Study: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Literature
- Comparative: Games & Gladiators: Sport and Leisure in the Ancient World
- Comparative Study: Murder in the Ancient City
- Comparative: Classical World in Film
- Comparative: Plutarch and his Great Lives
- Comparative: The Fall of the Ancient City
- Comparative: Greco-Roman Egypt 331-31 BC
Career Opportunities
Graduates have become historians working in museums and heritage sites. Others work within teaching, retailing, the arts, marketing and local, regional and national Government.
The University of Winchester ranks in the top 10 in the UK for graduates in employment or further study according to the Graduate Outcomes Survey 2021, HESA.