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Bachelor in History (with Placement Year) (BA) - Greenwich
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Bachelor in History (with Placement Year) (BA) - Greenwich

University of Greenwich
London, UK
On campus
Full-time
€20,382.74/year
3042 Points
Duration
4 Years
Language
English
Start date
Sep 2025

Program Description

This history degree is shaped by our research passions and expertise. You'll explore a diverse range of topics, including gender, violence, migration, national identities and the environment, across the 17th to the 20th centuries. The historic site of our Greenwich Campus provides easy access to important archives and museums in central London.

You can also undertake a placement in the creative, cultural, education or heritage sectors, and explore other subjects such as politics, English, or a foreign language.

Notes:

• Tuition fees for students who have citizens' rights after Brexit: £9,250

• Placement year fees: £1,000

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Curriculum

Year 1

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:
Introducing History: Ideas and Practice (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
Mandarin 1 (30 credits)
Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
The Canon: A Short History of Western Literature (30 credits)
European Languages (French 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
Europe and the Revolutions, 1789-1914 (30 credits)
The Changing Faces of Britain 1707 – 1918 (30 credits)
Conflict, Commerce and Culture: Britain and the World, 1600-2000 (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
Introduction to Politics and International Relations (30 credits)
Inequality and Social Change (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options:
Europe and the Revolutions, 1789-1914 (30 credits)
The Changing Faces of Britain 1707 – 1918 (30 credits)
Conflict, Commerce and Culture: Britain and the World, 1600-2000 (30 credits))

Year 2

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:
History in Practice (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options:
'The People's War': The Second World War, Society, Culture and Legacy (15 credits)
Atlantic Worlds 1650-1783 (15 credits)
Empire and Nation in the Middle East (15 credits)
Remaking English Society, c. 1550-1760 (15 credits)
Rebel Earth? History and Politics in the Anthropocene (15 credits)
“The Turbulent British”: A history of protest across the British Empire 1770 – 1930 (15 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
Mandarin 1 (30 credits)
Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
Shakespeare, Then and Now (30 credits)
European Languages (French 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
'The People's War': The Second World War, Society, Culture and Legacy (15 credits)
Atlantic Worlds 1650-1783 (15 credits)
Empire and Nation in the Middle East (15 credits)
Remaking English Society, c. 1550-1760 (15 credits)
Rebel Earth? History and Politics in the Anthropocene (15 credits)
“The Turbulent British”: A history of protest across the British Empire 1770 – 1930 (15 credits)
European Languages (Italian 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
Language Research Project (French, Italian, Spanish) (30 credits)
Working in Politics and International Relations (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 1) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)

Placement Year

HPSS Sandwich Placement

Year 4

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
History Work Placement (30 credits)
The History Dissertation (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options:
A Global History of Genocide (30 credits)
Britain and the Suppression of the Slave trade 1807-1867 (15 credits)
Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (15 credits)
Projecting Nations: Film, History and Propaganda (15 credits)
“Writing Lives”: Narratives of Defiance in North America & Britain 1850 -1950 (15 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
Mandarin 2 (30 credits)
Mandarin 3 (30 credits)
The Literature of the Gothic (30 credits)
English For Academic Purposes 6 (30 credits)
Modern Identities: Literature of the Global Eighteenth Century (30 credits)
European Languages (French 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (French 4) (30 credits)
A Global History of Genocide (30 credits)
Britain and the Suppression of the Slave trade 1807-1867 (15 credits)
Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (15 credits)
Projecting Nations: Film, History and Propaganda (15 credits)
“Writing Lives”: Narratives of Defiance in North America & Britain 1850 -1950 (15 credits)
European Languages (Italian 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Italian 3) (30 credits)
Language Research Project (French, Italian, Spanish) (30 credits)
Political Conspiracy and Slander (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 2) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 3) (30 credits)
European Languages (Spanish 4) (30 credits)

Careers

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Administration, central and local government
  • Librarianship and information services
  • Museums and heritage management
  • Journalism
  • Publishing
  • The arts
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