BA International History and Politics(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

1. Initiate, research, and complete an extended historical project.
2. Analyse an appropriate and relevant body of primary sources to produce an original piece of historical research.
3. Critically evaluate primary sources related to a highly specialised area of history.
4. Accurately apply the professional standards and norms in ethics, presentation, and communication of information.

Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis in a range of formats.
2. Apply effective learning strategies that demonstrate intellectual integrity, maturity, and self-direction.
3. Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence.
4. Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance.
5. Critically navigate the challenges faced in interpretating complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence.

Assessment

The BA in International History and Politics uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. At Level 3 assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules include a final year project (long essay or dissertation), primary source analyses (‘gobbets’), literature reviews, presentations, essays, and online exams.