For our students, the University of Westminster is a gateway
to professional life. The strong research and postgraduate programme across all
disciplines sustains high quality teaching and our world leading status in many
subjects.
The University has long encouraged students from the widest possible range of
backgrounds and provided part-time as well as full-time modes of study. In these
ways, all students can benefit from great diversity.
There are 22,000 students on four campuses of which three are
at the heart of London
Approximately 15 students take single honours history each year but they
study with over one hundred students who take in combination history, politics,
geography, sociology, and socio-legal studies.
History is a long-established discipline at the University of Westminster
which formerly operated within the framework of the BA Social Science programme
in Central London and the Joint Degree Programme at Harrow. These programmes
have gradually merged and from October 1997 the History Subject Area has offered
offer an integrated programme in Modern History based in Central London.
The modules offered by the History Subject Area at Undergraduate level
broadly reflect the teaching and research interests of staff. We provide a
coherent package of modules which reflect the broad spectrum of the modern
historical discipline. The chronological focus of the history modules is
therefore predominantly late nineteenth and twentieth century with a
geographical emphasis on Britain, Europe and the wider world; this relatively
tight focus enables modules to be offered in social, economic, political, gender
and diplomatic history against a common background.
Year
1
In
year one students take up to five modules in history from the following list:
1HIS101 Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century
1HIS103 Age of Revolutions: Britain 1760 - 1830
1HIS104 Age of Revolutions France 1789-1793
1HIS107 Pax Britannica: Britain and the World in the C19th
1HIS182 European Art History since the Renaissance
Years
2 and 3
In
years two and three, students taking BA (hons) History take at least fourteen
modules from the following list. If they prefer they can take History with
another social sciences discipline in Joint, or Major-Minor combinations.
1HIS318 Absolutism in Europe c1600-1789
1HIS319 Britain and the Experience of the Great War 1914-1918
1HIS323 The Nazi Revolution
1HIS324 The Russian Revolution: Origin & Consequences
1HIS325 Women's History: England c 1800-1914
1HIS326 Work Family & Community: Labour in Britain c 1930-1960
1HIS330 Britain and the Origins of the Cold War 1945-1951
1HIS331 Britain and Decolonisation c1945-1965
1HIS332 England the First Urban Industrial Society c1830-1914
1HIS333 Britain in the Age of Democracy c1906-1970
1HIS334 Europe in the Age of Imperialism c1870-1914
1HIS336 Historiography and Research Methods
1HIS337 Diplomatic History c 1900-1970
1HIS338 The New Imperialism and After c1880-1919
1HIS339 Britain and Appeasement c 1919-1939
1HIS341 Britain Economic Decline since 1945
1HIS342 Modern Ireland 1868 - 1922
1HIS343 From Suffrage to Women's Liberation: Women's History 1918-1970
1HIS351 Cinema as a Source for Historians
1HIS352 Socialists, Communists and Capitalists in Europe and America 1945-1956
1HIS356 The Troubles: Britain and Northern Ireland 1968-1998
1HIS360 Practical Work in Historical Archives
1HIS382 London at War
1HIS398 History Project (15 Credit)
1HIS399 History Dissertation (30 Credit)