History (Modern)

Essential Information

UCAS Code:	V100 BA/Hist
Typical Offer (A/AS Levels):	History/History and Culture/History and Politics: A level AAB + AS level C in one other subject. Department cannot accept 2 AS levels in place of a third A level. (Other typical offers)
Duration:	3 Years
Essential Subjects	All candidates generally required to achieve A in A Level History. Good GCSE pass (or equivalent) in a modern language is essential.

Introducing History

Students in this stream have a minimum of compulsory modules and the full range of choice among History Options. They are permitted – but not required – to concentrate largely on the period since 1750. Any one of the four languages offered by the Department is available to this stream.

Five or six students in this stream are selected to spend the Second Year studying in Canada or the US: our current exchange partners are Queens University (Canada), Columbia University (NY) and the Universities of Wisconsin, South Carolina, California and Connecticut. The University contributes towards travel costs. A similar number of students, following the second year of their studies, choose to spend an additional year at a European university under student exchange arrangements. They return for their final year in Warwick. Universities currently within the scheme are Berlin TU, Darmstadt, Oldenburg, Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand), Turin, Ca’Foscari (Venice), Madrid Complutense and Seville.

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Modules

Year One

Module 1: (Core) Making of the Modern World.
Module 2: (Core) A module in a modern European language.
Module 3: (Option) chosen from the module list.
Module 4: (Option) chosen from the module list; or from a list of approved Options offered by other departments in the field of later modern European studies.

Year Two

Module 1: (Core) The European World, 1500-1720.
Module 2: (Core) A module in a modern European language.
Module 3: (Option) An early modern/18th century module, listed under the heading 'Early Modern'.
Module 4: (Option) See the website for current History Options; or from a list of approved Options taught by other departments.

Year Three

Module 1: (Core) Historiography.
Modules 2: (Option) A Special Subject from the module list, under the 'Special Subjects' heading.
Module 3: (Dissertation) Normally on a topic relating to the Special Subject (or, in special cases, Historiography or the Advanced Option)
Module 4: (Option) An advanced Option from the module list, under the 'Advanced Options' heading.

Note: Not all the Options listed will be available in any one year. Inevitably some options are oversubscribed and therefore we cannot guarantee that students will always be given a place on their first choice option.

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Assessment

Students in all History degree courses are assessed through a combination of timed examination and long (4,500 word) essays, and, in the Third Year, a 9,000 word dissertation. In some modules, particularly in the First Year, the shorter class essays are also used in assessment. In many of their Second and Third Year modules students are free to choose between 100% examination by timed paper, or a combination of examination and assessment.

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