About this course
Combined degrees provide an opportunity to study two subjects as part of the same course and develop your interests in multiple areas. You’ll also enhance your employability and career options by gaining a wide variety of skills and expertise.
On this combined degree, you'll study 50% History and 50% Politics.
See the Single Honours course page for each subject for more information on course content. Please note, the exact module choice available to you may differ from the Single Honours course.
History
In year one you will take ‘history matters’ and ‘presenting the past’; either ‘power, belief and identity: medieval and early modern worlds, C. 500-1600 CE’ or the ‘global history of the present’ and either ‘modern Britain: democracy, war and modernity’ or ‘understanding modern Europe’. In year two, you will take 30 credits of optional history modules from the same list of options available to Single Honours students. In year three you will either take a research-focused module in semester one and write a dissertation in semester two or take 30 credits of optional modules in semester one and in semester two take modules: ‘uses of the past: history impact module’ and ‘history research essay’.
See the full History course page.
Politics
If studying Politics at 50%, in year one you will take ‘Foundations in Politics’ and ‘Foundations in International Politics’. You will also choose to study either ‘British Politics I’ or ‘Studying Politics Successfully: skills and methods’, and either ‘British Politics II’ or ‘Comparative Politics’. In years two and three there are a wide choice of optional modules, including the option of a dissertation in year three, giving you the chance to complete a sustained, original piece of work on a topic of your choice.
See the full Politics course page.