Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Modern and Contemporary History (V140)

The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Modern and Contemporary History course provides the opportunity to study British, European and American history from the modern period to the present day. Through the topics studied students will learn how to examine contemporary issues in their historical context, exploring the development of modern society and politics. they will delve deeper into more specialised topics, such as Nazi Germany or the Cold War. The essential skills of analysis, argument and communication acquired are highly valued by employers.

This course aims to develop students' knowledge and understanding of a wide range of human History, concentrating on the period after 1750. It encourages them to take an analytical approach to the modern and contemporary eras, so that they can understand and contribute to historical controversies, and can understand ways in which the past is at least partly constructed in the present. It therefore hopes to train them intellectually so they can explain the relevance of the past in the present, understand the problems of interpreting written and other evidence, and gain skills of research, analysis, problem-solving, construction of argument and communication.