BA (Hons) in Modern 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
- Focus in-depth on some of the monumental historical events of the past two centuries, such as the world wars and the rise of Soviet Communism
- Secure work placements at leading historic and cultural venues such as the Mary Rose and British Museum
- Join a student-led history society on trips to sites of historical interest and talks by major historians
- Learn from expert tutors and their cutting-edge research
- Study in a beautiful city steeped in history
The past two centuries have seen enormous advances in technology and economic globalisation, but they have also witnessed catastrophic world wars, the Holocaust and the rise of Soviet Communism. Modern History at Winchester allows you to study how such relatively recent events have formed the modern world we inhabit.
Our committed team of historians are passionate about their subjects, which cover a broad range of cultures, wars and traditions from around the globe. Studying alongside them, you gain a solid grounding in the academic disciplines of historical analysis, as well as an understanding of the great sweep of global history and its influence on today’s world.
You can choose to focus your studies on Britain, but you can also explore a variety of historical periods, events and cultures, including Asia, Europe and the Americas through a broad range of optional modules.
In Year 1, you take core modules that explore the nature of history as a discipline. You look at the changing assumptions, methods and definitions of history and explore the current concerns of historians.
Having acquired research skills and knowledge in Year 1, your studies in Years 2 and 3 are more specialised.
In Year 2, core modules in Reading History and Practising History deepen your understanding of the discipline. You also select from a range of optional modules that focus on the modern world, concentrating either on using original documents or exploring continuity and change over long periods. Options may include The British Raj, Revolutionary Russia, Nazism and the Holocaust, and The History of Rock and Roll.
In Year 3, you produce your dissertation and take core modules in Writing History and History and the Public Sphere. 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. While an area of historical concern across more than one country and culture is examined by Comparative Studies.
Depth Studies options may include The United States and the Cold War 1945-63, and Japan at War and Under Occupation 1937-52. Possible Comparative Studies options are Minorities in the Past and Mediterranean Fascism: Conflict and Dictatorship in Spain and Italy 1914-1947.
By studying Modern History you develop transferable skills in written and oral communication, both as part of a group and individually, and critical analysis of evidence and large bodies of material.
*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
- Perspectives on the Past, Part I 15
- Case Studies II: Independent Study Project 15
- Perspectives on the Past, Part II 15
Optional Modules
- Introductory Module: Early Medieval Britain 400-1066 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: The United States - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Early Modern Europe - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Europe 1300-1500 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: English History 1272-1500 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Victorian Britain 1815-1914 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: East Asia 1900-present - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Tudor and Early Stuart England 1500-1660 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, 1783 - 1997 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Uniting The Kingdom? Britain, 1660-1837 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Modern Europe, 1789-2001 - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Seventeenth-century England - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Britain in the Twentieth Century - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Europe and The Americas (1763-1914) - change and interchange - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Europe in the Early Middle Ages (c.400-c.888) - 15 Credits
- Introductory Module: Europe in the Central Middles Ages (c.888-1200) - 15 Credits
Year 2 (Level 5)
- Reading History 15
- Practising History 15
Optional modules
- Work Placement - 15 Credits
- Group Project - 15 Credits
- Field Trip - 15 Credits
- Volunteering Placement - 15 Credits
- Value Studies - 15 credits
- Option A: The Golden Age of Spain - 15 Credits
- Option A: Religion, Politics & Society in Early Tudor England, 1485-1558 - 15 Credits
- Option A: Life in Early Modern London - 15 Credits
- Option A: The Global Hispanic World (the 1760s-1960s) - 15 Credits
- Option A: Victorian Culture and Society - 15 Credits
- Option A: Imperial Japan - 15 Credits
- Option A: The British Raj, from the 'Indian Mutiny' to Gandhi - 1857-1947 - 15 Credits
- Option A: The American South 1865-1970 - 15 Credits
- Option A: Edwardian Britain - 15 Credits
- Option A: Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1924 - 15 Credits
- Option A: Nazism and the Holocaust - 15 Credits
- Option A: From Austerity to Affluence: Everyday Life in Post-war Britain - 15 Credits
- Option A: The Human Explosion: Energy, Industrialization and Environment, 1750 to the Present
- Option A: The Kinks: English Culture and Identity from the Post-War through to the 21st Century - 15 Credits
- Option B: Food and Drink in Medieval and Early Modern England - 15 Credits
- Option B: The Urban History of Europe from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution c.1350-1700 - 15 Credits
- Option B: The Renaissance Court: Power. Politics and Patronage - 15 Credits
- Option B: Gender in Europe and North America, c. 1500-1914 - 15 Credits
- Option B: Culture, Society and Economy in Early Modern England - 15 Credits
- Option B: Exploring Past Localities - 15 Credits
- Option B: The Rise of the High-Speed Society (18th-20th centuries) - 15 Credits
- Option B: American Slavery - 15 Credits
- Option B: Reactions to Poverty - 15 Credits
- Option B: History’s Eye – Photography and Society - 15 Credits
- Option B: Sisterhood – Before and After Feminism in Twentieth-Century Britain - 15 Credits
- Option B: Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe - 15 Credits
- Option B: ‘Subordinate Independence’: Japan’s Relationship with the US 1945-present - 15 Credits
- Option B: Stalinism - 15 Credits
- Option B: Dreams and Nightmares: Britain in 20th Century Europe - 15 Credits
- Option B: Climate, Culture and Catastrophe in the Modern World: The Making of the Anthropocene - 15 Credits
- Political and Religious Themes in the Modern Near and Middle East - 15 Credits
- War on Terror’ - 15 Credits
- Exploring Teaching as a Career - 15 Credits
Year 3 (Level 6)
- Dissertation in History 30
- Writing History 15
- History and the Public Sphere 15
Optional Modules
- Work Placement - 15 Credits
- Field Trip - 15 Credits
- 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 a 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
Career Opportunities
Our graduates enter a wide spectrum of careers. Many work in museums and heritage sites. Others work within teaching, retail, 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.
Pre-approved for a Master's
If you study for a Bachelor's Honours Degree with us, you will be pre-approved to start a Master's degree at Winchester. To be eligible, you will need to apply by the end of March in the final year of your degree and meet the entry requirements of your chosen Master's degree.