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BA History and Philosophy

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll have good research skills and be able to analyse complex information from a range of sources. You’ll be able to construct clear and persuasive arguments, and present and defend them using your advanced communication skills. You’ll also have good organisational skills from juggling two different subjects.

Recent graduates have gone into careers in business, the Civil Service, education, finance, heritage, teaching, publishing, fashion, journalism, law, local government, media, marketing and politics to name just a few.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB including A in History (if taken)

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in History (if taken) and grade A in the EPQ.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Exploring History

  • How to Think Clearly and Argue Well

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750

  • The Medieval World in Ten Objects

  • Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs

  • Global Empires

  • Global Decolonization

  • The Making of the Twentieth Century

  • The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong

  • Knowledge, Self and Reality

  • Introduction to the History of Western Philosophy

2 Year 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture)

  • Small Change and Big Changes: Money and Power in Europe, 284-1000

  • Australia and the World

  • The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century

  • The Crusades and Medieval Christendom

  • Ancient Philosophy

  • History of Modern Philosophy: Locke and Berkeley

  • Ethics of Life and Death

  • Political Philosophy

  • Moral Philosophy

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Thinking about History

  • History of the High Street

  • Histories of Black Britain

  • Conquest, Convivencia and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Spain, 711-1212

  • History Dissertation

  • The Age of Chivalry: The Idea of Knighthood in Medieval Europe, 1050-1450

  • Philosophy of Biology

  • Metaethics

  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

  • Independent Research Project in Philosophy, Religion or History of Science

  • Religion, Belief and Ethics

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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