This course will allow you to practice and develop your skills as a humanities scholar. It will ensure you are ready to complete your degree in History by giving you the chance to learn research and communication skills in a supportive, step-by-step manner.

You will be given the support needed to become an inclusive and creative humanities student. In addition, the Humanities Foundation Year will allow you to gain inter-disciplinary skills from English, Politics and Philosophy.

Our students learn from lectures, seminars, prestigious guest speakers and study visits to the internationally recognized local heritage industry. Each year you develop your knowledge and skills so that in your final year you will not only study your modules but undertake your own research dissertation.
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This course will allow you to practice and develop your skills as a humanities scholar. It will ensure you are ready to complete your degree in History by giving you the chance to learn research and communication skills in a supportive, step-by-step manner.

You will be given the support needed to become an inclusive and creative humanities student. In addition, the Humanities Foundation Year will allow you to gain inter-disciplinary skills from English, Politics and Philosophy.

Our students learn from lectures, seminars, prestigious guest speakers and study visits to the internationally recognized local heritage industry. Each year you develop your knowledge and skills so that in your final year you will not only study your modules but undertake your own research dissertation.

Build your academic skills on an initial foundation year

This four-year course includes an integrated, introductory foundation year that develops your academic skills and confidence, as well as provides you with an overview of core aspects of humanities that you will build upon in your further years of study.

This option is for you if you are interested in History but do not meet the course entry requirements for BA (Hons) History yet, or if you want more time to prepare for higher education.

Learn from experts

You will learn from internationally recognised staff who use the latest research to underpin their teaching to ensure you engage with the current debates. The bonus of taking this degree is you will access a kaleidoscope of amazing subjects. From the black death, to Henry VIIIs court intrigues, to the Victorians and the making of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Our BA (Hons) History with Integrated Foundation Year course offers you the chance to study key historical topics from the medieval period to the present day and in each year you will gain and develop your research skills.

Studying the past means immersing yourself in the time period that fascinates you. Our modules will let you explore history using written, visual, material, and oral history sources and at each level you will explore how historians debate and reinterpret what the past means today.

You will be accessing both the subjects you love already and learning about new ones. Our approach is to share national and international contexts and explore common sources (e.g. treaties, diaries and maps) and more unconventional ones (e.g. comics, films, computer war games, military strategy games).