2019/20 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA History

Total credits: 365

Entry requirements:

Grades AAA at A-level.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of History

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of History

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

History

Programme specification:

History is both a subject and an academic discipline. Students of history attempt to reconstruct and explain the past through the study of its residues, using critical skills and insights particular to the historical profession or drawn from other disciplines. The Leeds School of History is a large research-led department. It achieved a grade point average of 2.75 in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and lecturers in the School generally teach in their specialist research areas.

The School's programme is notable for both the chronological and geographical range of the options it offers, which include modules in British, European, American and Wider World history.

Leeds students have access to some of the best library resources in the country. The University's Brotherton Library houses one of Britain's largest historical research collections and is an invaluable resource for student research projects in years 2 and 3. Students also have easy access from campus to the British Library branch at Boston Spa, the Leeds Public Library, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the West Yorkshire District Archives.

As Leeds History graduates develop advanced skills in critical thinking, information handling, research and communication skills, they are highly sought after by leading employers in fields as diverse as Law, the media and accountancy, as well as more subject orientated careers such as the heritage industry, archivism and teaching.

The programme will:
- provide students with tools for the critical interpretation of both secondary and primary texts;
- equip students with extensive background and comparative historical knowledge of a number of chronological periods and cultures or geographic regions;
- offer students a wide choice of specialist topics covering many periods, approaches and cultures, based on the research specialisms of staff in the School;
- equip students with a broad awareness of general developments in historiography, and in depth knowledge of the historiography of their specialist areas;
- expose students to a variety of the approaches and conceptual tools of some of the sub-disciplines of the historical profession, which may include social history, economic history, cultural history, gender history and political history;
- equip students with the skills and opportunity to conduct autonomous supervised research projects, including a primary source or historiographically based dissertation;
- develop students' competency at communicating their ideas by a variety of methods, including oral presentations, essays and a research-based dissertation.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following modules or take discovery modules outside the School:

In addition to the modules listed above, students may wish to choose from the following History modules to fulfil their remaining credits.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may take up to 40 credits of discovery modules outside the School in place of the option modules listed above.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:

GROUP A MODULES

AND at least 40 credits from the following modules. These MUST be taken in different semesters:

GROUP B MODULES

The following modules offer you the chance to explore the diversity of approaches to the study of the past. Some of the modules give you the chance to research and practise History in collaboration with others, both within and outside the University.

These modules are excellent preparation for the final year dissertation.

GROUP C MODULES

Students may not take level 3 modules at level 2. In History, the level of a module is identified by the first number of the module code, but other Schools may vary - please contact them for details.

Level 2 students may study up to 20 credits of level 1 Discovery modules. Grades awarded for these modules will count as normal towards your final overall mark, but the credits will not be counted as level 2 credits in final classification.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may take up to 40 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following special subject modules:

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the option modules listed below:

The following modules offer you the chance to explore the diversity of approaches to the study of the past. Some of the modules give you the chance to research and practise History in collaboration with others, both within and outside the University.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules from within or outside the School.

Last updated: 04/09/2019

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