History Joint Honours, BA (Hons)

History at NTU offers exciting opportunities to discover and understand the past through a range of skills and approaches. Choose between Single Honours History or combining it with another Joint Honours subject to give your degree an extra dimension. Why choose this course?

Studying History at NTU is not a passive armchair activity but demands:

• passion
• focus
• an open mind
• intellectual curiosity
• a willingness to engage in independent learning.

You will be introduced to new concepts and perspectives and develop your own research interests alongside set modules.

This course offers a broad and diverse curriculum, covering periods from AD 700 to the present day, and subject areas as diverse as:

• youth
• crime
• gender
• religion
• international and urban studies
• dictatorship and democracy
• warfare
• reconstruction.

A wide range of options places the emphasis on student choice, enabling you to study in-depth specialist areas. These include The Crusades, Nazi Germany, Aztec and Inca civilisations, and American and British History.

Joint honours degree combinations and UCAS codes

Joint Honours History is taken in combination with one of the following subjects as part of the BA Joint Honours programme. The numbers in the brackets is the UCAS code for a Joint Honours degree in History alongside the listed subject:

• Communication and Society (LV31)
• English (QV31)
• European Studies (RV91)
• Film and TV (PV3C)
• French (RV11)
• German (RV21)
• Global Studies (LV91)
• International Relations (LV21)
• Italian (RV31)
• Linguistics (QV11)
• Media (PV31)
• Philosophy (VV51)
• Politics (LVF1)
• Spanish (RV41).

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What will I study?

History can be combined with another subject to create your degree programme.

Find out more about our degree combinations including History:

• BA (Hons) English and History (QV31)
• BA (Hons) Film and TV and History (PV3C)
• BA (Hons) French and History (RV11)
• BA (Hons) German and History (RV21)
• BA (Hons) Global Studies and History (LV91)
• BA (Hons) History and Communication and Society (LV31)
• BA (Hons) History and European Studies (RV91)
• BA (Hons) History and International Relations (LV21)
• BA (Hons) Italian and History (RV11)
• BA (Hons) Linguistics and History (QV11)
• BA (Hons) Media and History (PV31)
• BA (Hons) Philosophy and History (VV51)
• BA (Hons) Politics and History (LVF1)
• BA (Hons) Spanish and History (RV41)

Extra opportunities

Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for students in the School of Arts and Humanities. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enable students to take part in optional:

• International exchange
• Work placements
• Learn or improve language skills

Gain valuable work experience that will impress employers, learn another language, experience other cultures and travel the globe - all as part of your degree. Our international exchange partners include universities in:

• Australia
• Europe
• USA
• Canada
• Thailand.

Find out more on an Open Day.

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Please note that course specifications may be subject to change

Books and library resources
In our library you will have access to an extensive and diverse range of books including those on your reading list. The library also stocks periodicals that focus on History and Heritage forums. Clifton campus has its own Blackwell’s Bookshop which stocks relevant academic texts plus a wide range of bestselling novels.

IT resources
Our IT resource rooms and PC clusters are distributed across Clifton campus, with PCs providing access to:

• Microsoft Office
• email
• web browsing
• networked file storage
• high-speed online printing services (with a free printing allowance for each student).

Resource rooms are available 24 hours a day.