Overview

• Thrive within our strong, close-knit community in small classes guided by expert staff.
• Study the events, people, and ideas that have shaped modern history. Our classes emphasise the history of ideas culture, memory, and heritage political ideas and party politics environmentalism and environmental politics modern conflict, imperialism, and decolonialisation.
• Experience cutting-edge research through current work our expert academic staff are undertaking in British and European history global history, including the Americas, the Middle East, and the Pacific and in environmental and global political history.
• Develop your historical expertise along with expanding your knowledge through optional modules across literature, politics, international relations, business, law, and geography.
• Embrace a new language and graduate with a language proficiency.
• Learn and thrive at our modern eco campus near Falmouth on the coast of South Cornwall.
• Benefit from local work placements with museums, galleries, libraries, schools, and heritage organisations.
• The Student-Staff Liaison Committee provides an opportunity to communicate your views and influence, change and shape your degree. The student-run History Society, Politics Society, and Law Society all organise guest speakers, trips and social events.

Why choose to include Employment Experience?

Undertaking graduate-level work during your degree unlocks a world of experience that allows you to develop essential employability and interpersonal skills that relate to your degree and future career. A work placement will dramatically boost your confidence, enhance your CV and develop graduate level skills and competencies that employers are looking for.