Birkbeck, University of London, BA (Hons), History

Year 1 and 2: 3 modules each year, including a foundation module in study skills in year 1 and an introduction to historical argument in Year 2; 2 modules from the following list: the transformation of late antiquity 284–800; British and European history 1250–1500; British history 1450–1750; British history from 1750; European history 1500–1800; modern European history from 1800 to present; from republic to empire (Roman history 133 BC to AD 284); the British empire, 1780–1960; modern history of east Asia; American history from 1600 to present; the Greek world (archaic and classical periods); the making of medieval societies c.750–1250. Years 3 and 4: 4 modules (3 thematic modules and a documents based module) from over 30 topics, including: approaching death in ancient Greece and Rome; colonial encounters: race, identity and cultural change in the British empire; gender in the middle ages; other peoples in Greek and Roman thought; religious and political space in the classical and Hellenistic world; responses to Rome from the 18th century to the present; the cultural history of early modern Venice; the English family c. 1350-1720; the making of the modern racial order in South Africa; the war of ideas in post-revolutionary England 1660-1740; witchcraft and society 1450-1750; the Ottoman empire; imperialism in modern east Asia; contested nation: Germany 1871-1918; the age of science: the transformation of European life, 1850-1939; people and society: a social history of Venice (1450-1650); living in the middle ages; the Athenian empire; religion, magic and society in late antiquity; France 1774-1794: reform and revolution; later medieval London 1450-1560: community, politics and religion; literature, culture and society in Britain, 1914-1945; popular culture in American history, 1870 to the present; the age of plague: disease, medicine and society in western Europe, 1348-1665; the idea of civil society from the 18th to the 20th century; terror, war and late Stalinism: soviet Russia 1934-1953 (not all modules are available every year); year 3 also contains bibliographical training aimed at enabling you to prepare your dissertation (to be completed in year 4).