UWE has an excellent reputation for teaching quality. In the 2001 Guardian league tables it was ranked sixth of all universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.

Bristol is the ideal student city. There are almost 40,000 Higher Education students studying in Bristol, making it one of the liveliest cities in the country. The recently restored harbourside provides a venue for cultural events to suit all tastes.

Over 95 per cent of UWE graduates find employment within six months of leaving the university.

The Programme - The History School at UWE is large, comprising 18 full-time staff, most of whom hold doctorates, able to offer a wide variety of modules to cater for most student interests. Topics covered range from the late medieval period to the modern day, in terms of the time-scale covered, and include Africa, the United States, and Russia- as well as Britain, Ireland and Europe - in terms of space as well as the international relations of states.

Flexibility - The programme of modules offered is extremely flexible. Single honours History Students can move to joint honours, can take up to two modules outside the discipline of History, and can tailor their modules to their own requirements: thus, if a student wants to specialise in early modern History, for example, or modern political or social History, it is quite possible to do so. Students can also study International History within the History programme or study it within the more specialised degree, International History with Politics.

The Staff - The members of the History School are lively, supportive and highly qualified. They are committed to their subject, enthusiastic about it, and use their own academic research to inform their teaching.

The Facilities - The History School has developed an excellent library, complementing its well-stocked teaching provision with an extensive collection of microfilms; these are of particular importance for those students writing their final year dissertations. The History School has also carried out pioneering work in developing IT strategies for undergraduate teaching, and, to support this, there is excellent IT provision in terms of both hardware and software.

You take a total of four 30 credit level one modules.

You take three History level one modules plus one level one module in another subject area: Cultural and Media Studies, Economics, English, Film Studies, French, German, International Relations, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish.

You take four 30 credit modules each year. You may specialise completely and take all eight modules in History, or vary your studies by taking one or two modules in other subjects. However, as a minimum, you must take six modules in History including a compulsory module, The Theory and Practice of History (Year 2), the Dissertation module and a special subject module in which you study History in depth and which is linked to your dissertation. You are then free to choose from a wide range of optional modules.

Joint Honours

You take any two 30 credit History foundation modules and a further 60 credits in your other main subject.

You take four 30 credit History modules and a further 120 credits in your other main subject, 60 credits in each subject each year. The Theory and Practice of History module is only compulsory if you intend to write a dissertation in your third year. You may if you wish take a special subject module without writing a dissertation. If you opt to write a dissertation in your other main subject you cannot write a History dissertation as well and vice versa.

From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: Themes in Early Modern History, 1480-1780.

Britain and the Long Eighteenth Century.

The Century of the Superpowers: The United States, Russia and Europe, 1860-1990.

Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century.

Elites, Politics and Society in England, 1370-1540; Gender and Sexuality in England, 1450-1660; Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700; War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1453-1721; Migration and Minorities in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700; Women and Men in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850; Art, Culture and Society in Britain, 1720-1860; The Politics of Welfare in Britain, 1870-1970; Politics and Society in Ireland since 1750; Gender, Politics and Identity in Europe, 1900-1945;Raid or Trade: an International History of the World Economy since 1700; German and Italian Fascism and Its Enemies, 1920-1945; Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1936-1975; Russia in the Soviet Era, 1917-1991; The United States, 1865-1975; International History, 1815-1914; Migration, Race and Nation: Britain since 1870; International History, 1914-1945; The Cold War: International History, 1945-1991; Britain’s Second Empire, 1820-1965; British and French Decolonisation, 1918-1965; Themes in African History; Crime in America since 1865: Organisation and Control.

England during the Wars of the Roses, 1450-1487; Medieval and Early Modern Bristol, 1370-1650; The Holy Roman Empire in the Confessional Age: Religion, Society and Politics in Germany, 1517-1648; Town, Region, Nation: Identities in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700; Religion and Racial Toleration in England, 1750-1830; Class, Protest and Popular Politics in Britain, 1750-1850; Modern Bristol since 1800; Charity, Children and the Poor in Nineteenth Century Britain; Socialism, Feminism and Labour Politics in Britain, 1870-1920; Politics and Violence in Twentieth Century Ireland; Race, Gender and Society in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1890-1923; Consolidation and Crisis: Britain and Its Inter-War Empire, 1919-1941; The International Communist Movement under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953; The London-Paris Berlin Triangle; International Relations, 1933-1940; Alliance without Partnership; Anglo-French International Relations, 1940-1963; From Cold War to Crime War: US Government Campaigns against Corruption and Organised Crime since 1945; Britain, the Slave Trade and its legacy; The Spanish Civil War.

You must take three History foundation modules and a fourth foundation module in International Politics:

The Century of the Superpowers: the USA, Russia and Europe, 1860-1990; Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century; Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1832; Themes in early Modern History: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1480-1780; Politics beyond the Nation State.

Years 2 and 3

You will take four 30 credit modules in the second year and four 30 credit modules in the third year, three each year in International History and one each year in International Politics. There are three compulsory modules: Theory and Practice of History which is taken in year two by all History students, a special subject selected from a range of modules in International History (see below) and the dissertation both taken in your third year. Apart from the compulsory modules, you are free to choose from the following International History and International Politics modules.

International History, 1815-1914: The Final Ascendancy of Europe in World Politics

International History, 1914-1945: The End of European Predominence in World Politics

International History since 1945: The Cold War and its Aftermath

War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1453-1721

Migration and Minorities in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700

Britain’s Second Empire: Transformation from Empire to Commonwealth, 1820-1965

The Collapse of Empire and Colonial War: British and French Decolonisation, 1918-1965

German and Italian Fascism and its Enemies, 1920-1945

The European Economy since 1850

Foreign Policy Analysis

International Political Economy

International Theory

Ethnic Conflict in World Politics

The Politics of South and North

Nationalism in Contemporary Europe

The Politics of Latin American Underdevelopment

School of History

Faculty of Humanities

University of the West of England

St Matthias Campus

Oldbury Court Road

Fishponds

Bristol

BS16 2JP

Contact telephone number for History Applicants:

Melanie Hosford, the History Administrator, 0117 3444416.