Newman University College, BA (Hons), Education Studies with History

Education studies Modules cover themes including: self, schooling and society; learning processes; the politics of education; educational research; education and the new technologies; schools and learning organisations; education equality and identity; contemporary developments in learning theory. Year 1: Modules may include: Introduction to education studies; classrooms and learning environments; teachers, teaching and pedagogy; interpersonal approaches in education; individual development in an educational context. Year 2: modules may include: the politics of education; learning processes; education, imagination and creativity; knowledge and ideology of education; education, equality and identity; research in education; individual differences. Year 3: modules may include: educational systems and social change; educational and the new technologies; education: contested values and praxis; learning theory: historical and contemporary perspectives; safeguarding children; critical theory and education; research dissertation. History Year 1: During the 1st year the student has the opportunity to study a broad selection of periods, from Britain's tumultuous history including Victorian Britain and the settlement of the British Isles; the history of the West Midlands region is given individual attention; the student is also introduced to historical methods of research, such as archaeology, the use of genetic evidence, archives and fieldwork; modules may include: Victorian Britain; the making of England: invasion, immigration and settlement, 43-1066; approaches to local and regional history; industry and invention in Birmingham, 1770 – 1810. Year 2: the 2nd year of study brings an international perspective to history; the student explores the history of Europe from ancient Greek times as well as the making of the modern world; modules may include: the Greek and Roman world; gender, race and society in late 19th- and 20th-Century Britain; European society in the 19th-Century; religion and society in England and Europe, 1400-1600; school and community in England, 1800 – 1902; medieval world; renaissance and the reformation, 1400-1550. Year 3: in the 3rd year, the student studies the nature of history itself, and can choose from options which may include: African history; film history; church history or the literature of the past; in addition, the student may compose, research and write their own research project based on an aspect of history of their choice; modules may include: competing histories; cinema and society in Britain, 1930 – 2001; politics and society in Europe and Russia, 1900-1945; Britain since 1918; hunters, farmers, rulers and Traders: Africa's past from earliest times to 1807; French revolution and Napoleon; European encounters with other cultures, 1000 – 1800.