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BA History

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll be able to think critically and analyse information, asking the right questions and communicating your findings both verbally and in writing. Independence, self-motivation and initiative are also among the skills you will develop, so graduates from History at Leeds are highly regarded by employers.

Our 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: AAA including A in History if taken.

Other course specific tests:

When 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 AAB at A Level including A in History 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

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

2 Year 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700

  • Medieval Romans and the shape of Afro-Eurasia today

  • Britain and the Industrial Revolution

  • Imperial Germany 1871-1918

  • Hands on Heritage

  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993

  • Bass Culture in Modern Britain

  • Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939

  • The Popular Caribbean: A History

  • Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama

  • Histories of Black Britain

  • American Business History

  • Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • History Dissertation

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Hands on Heritage

  • Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952

  • The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

  • Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998

  • Black British Culture and Black British Cultural Studies

  • The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968

  • The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945

  • War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660

  • Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800

  • Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic

  • White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power

  • Georgians at War

  • The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire

  • The Korean War

  • Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888

  • Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics

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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