The University campus is located in the town centre, within easy walking distance of shops, cinemas, restaurants, cafes, pubs, nightclubs, sporting and cultural facilities, student accommodation and public transport. There is a rich variety of stunning countryside within 20 minutes drive from Teesside, including the North Yorkshire Moors, the Cleveland Heritage Coastlines and Yorkshire Dales.

Communications with other parts of the country are good: London, for example, can be reached in less than three hours by train. One of the great advantages of studying at Teesside is that you can live close to the main University buildings in either University or private accommodation, and your cost of living (rent, food, drink, leisure etc.) is lower than many other areas of the UK. This makes a big difference to your lifestyle and allows you to make the most of your finances.

Teesside is a modern, dynamic university that offers:

• A friendly and supportive learning environment
• Excellent library, computing and IT facilities with over 1500 computer workstations across the campus; all students have free internet access and e-mail facilities
• Flexible programmes of study
• Strong student support (careers, health, accommodation, finance etc.)
• Good Student’s Union

We recruit between 40 and 50 students per year to our History single honours course; we also run courses for students who want to combine history with other studies. You can for, example, take joint honours programmes in either History and Media Studies or History and English Studies; or you can major in history alongside a minor route in one of the following areas: business studies, English studies, media studies, heritage studies, law and multimedia.

We are at the cutting edge of learning and teaching in history. In addition to lectures and seminars, essays and exams, you would have the chance to engage in group-work presentations and projects, oral history projects, community-based projects with schools (particularly useful for students who are thinking of teaching as a career), and film-based historical studies (the University holds the Northern Region Film and Television Archive). We are also at the forefront of the application of computers in the teaching of history, piloting new computer-based tutorials and electronic seminars.

The flexible and innovative teaching of history at Teesside is supported by a strong research culture. In the last national Research Assessment Exercise, the work of the historians at Teesside was rated as being of national excellence. Members of the teaching staff are involved in researching and writing in the areas of political thought, late medieval kingship, early modern religion, labour relations in modern Germany, Napoleon, antifascism in Britain, gender history, family and community history. We have a particular research strength in local and regional history, and this work is co-ordinated by the Centre for Local Historical Research.

Courses have been designed so that students can explore the past whilst laying foundations for their future. Each of the history degree routes develops a range of knowledge and aptitudes, including writing and presentational skills, ICT skills, group-working skills etc, which are valued highly by employers in all sectors of society. These skills equip graduates for careers in a wide range of areas, including the media, public administration, the professions, industry, teaching and a variety of service occupations.

All students follow a common first year, which introduces a variety of different methods, approaches and topics in the study of history. In the following years, you can choose from a range of modules covering a variety of countries and historical periods, from the classical world to post-war Europe. Subjects may be studied at various levels of detail, from broad surveys like leisure in twentieth-century Britain, through more detailed analysis of the Third Reich, Louis XIV, early nineteenth-century America, Victorian and Edwardian popular culture, to final-year primary source based modules such as Richard III, the Napoleonic Legend and Gender, Culture and Society. In addition, all history routes offer you the opportunity to study modules from other areas, including English Studies and Media Studies. Research skills and independent learning skills are developed throughout the course, but particularly as part of a final-year project where you choose and research your own topic.

All routes can be taken on either a full-time or part-time basis, with courses running in the evenings as well as during the day.

For more information, contact the School of Law, Arts Humanities

Tel: 01642 384019

Fax: 01642 384099

Or

Margaret Hems – BA (Hons) History Programme Leader

Tel: 01642 384028

Or

Dr Tony Nicholson – History Section Leader

Tel: 01642 384039