There are around 30,000 students at De Montfort University’s four campuses in Bedford, Leicester, Lincoln and Milton Keynes making us one of the UK’s biggest universities. At Leicester, there are 20,000 students at the Leicester Campus. Here at De Montfort University, we can provide our students with a state-of –the-art learning environment. We have recently moved into the newly refurbished Clephan Building that houses the new Music Technology studio, and a Research Centre for Technology and the Arts. Throughout the building you will be able to find quiet study space, generous teaching accommodation and language labs.

In addition, we also have dedicated computing facilities, just for Humanities and Social Sciences students, in our computing node. Here you will find PCs and apple macs and for just £10 a year you can have access to this facility with free internet access, your own email account and free printing, as well as technical help.

Bedford is a smaller campus with around 3500 students in total. Nowhere is the level of investment greater than at the Bedford Campus. The new Information Centre, which comes on line in the new year, represents the culmination of our work to enhance library provision and develop the most up-to-date facilities. There will be access to journals, databases, and webpages from 100 fast PCs with CD-ROM, network, and word processing facilities. There is also an IT teaching space, a resources room and silent study areas. This represents the first stage in a process of modernisation that will incorporate new teaching blocks and student union facilities. By 2001, the Polhill Campus will be the home of new and dedicated facilities for Humanities and Social Science students.

Students of the Faculty, whether based in Bedford or Leicester, in addition to having their own resource areas, also have access to all the facilities and resources of a large and modern university. To find out more about our other university facilities, please see our university website.

De Montfort University runs History courses at both the Leicester and the Bedford campuses. The single honours History course at Leicester accepts about 30 students each year and another 30 students onto the joint and combined honours routes. The male:female ratio is approximately 40:60.

The Bedford course recruits around 20 full time students each year.

• DMU is a contemporary university with centuries of experience.
• Each of the four centres and campuses retain their own distinctive characters and specialisms with something for everyone.
• Personal transferable skills are part of all our programmes to prepare students for the world of work.
• DMU attracts students from more than 50 countries and we have special relationships with colleges in more than 40 countries
• We offer courses from FE to PhD by full-time, part-time or distance learning. Single, joint and combined honours allow students to customise their education.
• In a recent survey, 75% of graduates were in their chosen career within six months of graduation.
• Our alumni services keep in touch with 50,000 former students all over the world.
• You will be prepared for life at DMU.

A diverse curriculum and interactive teaching programmes.
The department provides a lively, stimulating and innovative curriculum which not only seeks to provide you with a detailed knowledge of particular areas, themes and issues, but also provides a learning environment in which you will be able to develop and practice the key skills which are essential for historians.

A supportive and dynamic working environment.

History at DMU revolves around the student learning experience. Through the use of lectures, seminars, video, ICT, individual tutorials and independent study you will be provided with a great deal of variety in the way you learn. The curriculum is structured to enable you to progress to more specialised study. Assessment is designed to test a broad range of skills.

Active, student-led History society.

There is also a thriving History society, organised and run by the History students which provides a lively forum for academic and social events. The History Society has invited guest speakers to come and address a mixed body of staff and students on a range of topics of general interest. The social events – meals, visits, evening events – have proved a popular way of staff and students getting to know each other in a relaxed setting.

The Course

History at DMU involves an intellectually demanding, wide-ranging and intensive study of the past. A diverse range of modules is offered, providing access to an ever-expanding stock of knowledge and understanding of the course of history. The history undergraduate at DMU will be involved in the collection, analysis, evaluation and presentation of a wide range of evidential material, in the form of both primary sources (the material which has come down from past societies) and secondary sources (the scholarly work of later historians).

In particular, the study of history at DMU is designed to communicate the essentially contested nature of history as a discipline. Students will be encouraged to debate and discuss the divergent interpretations of particular phenomena, processes and problems. In this way, the undergraduate historian at DMU will be encouraged to examine the ways in which the past and the present interact, and to think critically and independently about the arguments, information and evidence to which they are exposed.

History at DMU is divided into core modules and options. In the core modules you will acquire foundation knowledge necessary for higher study, as well as training in key historical skills.

The core modules are:

• The Study of History (1st year)

• Historical controversies (year 2)

• Historical sources (year 2)

• In the Name of Progress: The USA in the twentieth century (year 2)

• Comparative European History 1861-1918 (year 3)

Plus the dissertation in year 3 (a 10000 word independent study module).

In the options you have the opportunity to specialise in up to three of the following themes or areas:

• US foreign relations and the Cold War
• US domestic history
• Russian/Soviet history
• European integration
• British social history
• Race and ethnicity in the UK and the USA
• Sports History

Degree courses available

At Leicester

BA (Hons) History – UCAS course code V100

History can also be studied as a joint degree in combination with one of the subject below:

Combined degrees

It is possible to study a combined degree (three subjects) including History. You simply select three subjects from the table below:

American Studies

Arts Management

Education

English

French

German

Hispanic Studies

History

International Relations

Media

Music Technology

Performing Arts

Politics

UCAS Course Code Y300

At Bedford

BA (Hons) History – UCAS course code V101

History can also be studies as a joint degree in combination with one of the subjects below:

Business NV11 

Human Geography LV81

Dance WV41 

Leisure and Recreation Studies NV71

English QV3D 

Sociology LL38

Environment and Development FV81 

Sports Studies BL68

Environmental Studies FV91 

Theatre WL48

Geography of Development LV8C

It is possible to study a combined degree (three subjects) including History. You simply select three subjects from the table below:

Business

Dance

English

Environmental Studies

History

Human Geography

Leisure and recreation Studies

Sociology

Sports Studies/Science

Theatre

UCAS course code Y601