The University of Central Lancashire has approximately 25,000 full and part-time students and is located close to the centre of Preston.

We recruit a total of 40 students on our single honours History degree programmes each year plus another 65 on programmes combining History with another subject. Women students make up just over half the total.

The University is recognised for its friendly, welcoming atmosphere and a clean, green, safe, compact campus. This is located on the edge of Preston town centre, conveniently placed for entertainment, shopping and transport connections to all parts of the United Kingdom. The University also possesses excellent indoor and outdoor sporting facilities.

Courses are organised on a modular basis, linked to the national credit system. This allows for considerable flexibility of programme. The University is renowned for its teaching excellence, with consistently high ratings in subject reviews. It recruits students from a wide range of backgrounds and ages. Whatever your background or age, you will not feel out of place in this university.

The University pays considerable attention to preparing its students for employment. This is done through free-standing modules and by embedding employment-related activities and skills in the subject curriculum. Government-produced data demonstrates that students of the University of Central Lancashire are very successful in finding employment after graduation.

History at Central Lancashire

The Department of Historical and Critical Studies offers courses not only in History but also in Film and Media Studies. This underlines one of its distinctive features, the opportunity, if you wish, to specialise in social history or the history of popular culture. Modern world history represents another important area of subject provision. The curriculum for all History programmes involves the study not only of particular periods or places or types of History but also the development of the skills used by historians. These skills (including identification and analysis of written, visual and oral evidence, organisation and communication of findings, working independently or in teams) are, of course, of much wider value in work and life. A further feature of History programmes at the University of Central Lancashire is the availability of options involving the applications of History: to museum or heritage work, to teaching, to community projects.

Programmes are delivered by a team of fourteen highly-qualified staff, all highly regarded teachers and researchers in their particular fields of history.

The Department offers four single honours degree programmes: BA (Hons) History; BA (Hons) Modern World History; BA (Hons) Film and History; BA (Hons) Social and Cultural History. You can also combine History with any one of about 60 other subjects; popular combinations pair History with English, Politics, American Studies, Law, Education, Film and Media or Sociology.

Main study options:

Year 1: Nature and Methods of History; Early Modern Europe, c.1500-1750; Modern World History since c.1750; Film and History; Nationalism and Imperialism in Asia 1857-1947, North America 1770-1880, Modern African History, Twentieth-century European history.

Year 2: 30 options including: Sources and Methods in History; Tudor England, 1485-1603; Renaissance Europe, Architecture in the Early Modern Age, English Society in the Eighteenth Century; Rebellion to Partition, Ireland 1795-1921; Crime, Violence and Immorality in England, 1700-1970, State and Society, Europe 1815-1914; Association Football and English Society since 1863; Indian Nationalism and the British Empire, 1857-1947; Women in Imperial Britain; North America, 1860-1939; Cinema and the Second World War; Civil Rights and Vietnam, the USA 1954-75; the Cold War in Twentieth-century International History; History Around You (industrial archaeology); Museums, Heritage and History.

Year 3: 12 options including: Empires; The Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-52; History of the Balkans since the Nineteenth Century; Lancashire since c.1850; British Sport and Society, 1870-1939; The Experience and Culture of War in the Twentieth Century; Germany under the Nazis; Women in Post-war Britain. All students undertake a supervised dissertation.

For a full list of options and the contents of particular degree programmes, please consult the Department or University Prospectus websites.

Prospectus for the university http://www.uclan.ac.uk/prospectus/courses/section3/hist.htm

Department website http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/histcrit/his info/history.htm

University of Central Lancashire,

Preston,

PR1 2HE

Tel. 01772-892400

Fax 01772-892935

email cenquiries@uclan.ac.uk

Department website http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/histcrit/his info/history.htm