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BA (Hons) History with American Studies

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

If you want to explore history, while specialising in the politics and culture of the USA, there’s no better place to study it than Portsmouth, a city with a rich heritage of its own.

On this BA (Hons) History with American Studies degree, you'll study the periods of British and global history that interest you most, while you focus a proportion of your studies on the United States of America. When you explore the USA, you'll examine contemporary and historical issues about American society, such as its politics and constitution, literature and culture, its foreign policy and global impact, the founding of the Republic, and minority and gender histories.

You'll develop your skills in research and analysis across global cultures, and gain sought-after workplace qualities in communication and teamwork.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – ABB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent, to include a relevant subject 

  • International Baccalaureate – 25-26

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry.

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

2 Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

  • Beliefs, Communities and Conflicts: Europe 1400-1750

  • Discovering World Histories: Peoples and Places

  • Societies, Nations and Empires: Europe 1750-2000

  • Thinking Like An Historian

  • Traces of the Past: Exploring Lives Through Sources

3 Year 2

Core Modules:

  • Debating the Past: Historical Case Studies

  • Working With the Past

Optional Modules:

  • A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11

  • Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa

  • Envisioning Ourselves: Media and the Making of Modern Britain, 1850-2000

  • Introduction to Teaching

  • Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

  • Professional Experience L5

  • Puritans to Post-Modernists: American Literature

  • Rethinking Nazi Germany: Politics, History, Society

  • The Hidden Lives of Things: Material Culture in the Early Modern World

  • Underworlds: Crime, Deviance & Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900

  • US Politics

  • Women's Writing in the Americas

4 Year 3

Core modules in this year include:

  • Civil Rights USA

  • Dissertation / Major Project

  • Specialist Option: Societies in Revolution 

  • Specialist Option: Empires and Identities

  • US Masculinities

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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