2022/23 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]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-60 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-60 credits from the following optional modules:

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]

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 cannot take level 3 modules at level 2. Students are only permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at levels 2 and 3, with the exception of skills discovery modules.

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]

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:

Students may take 40 credits of MEDV modules, 20 credits in lieu of a core HIST option module, with prior permission from the Head of the School of History.

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.

Students at level 3 may choose up to 20 credits of modules below their level. If a level 3 student chooses to study 20 credits below their level of study, these 20 credits must be taken at level 2. Level 1 modules may not be taken at level 3, with the exception of Skills Discovery modules (indicated by the letters 'skd' on the catalogue).

Discovery modules:

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

Last updated: 07/09/2022 09:24:00

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