BA History and American Studies
Course Overview
This BA in History and American Studies offers a dynamic exploration of the United States, combining its political and cultural development with broader global historical contexts. You will analyze the diverse forces that have shaped the nation, from its founding to its modern global influence, with the unique opportunity to spend a year studying in the USA.
Key Program Highlights
- Study at a top 10 UK Centre for American Studies, learning from world-leading academic experts
- Analyze the political, cultural, and economic events that forged the modern United States
- Customize your degree with modules in American and global history, politics, and culture
- Optional accredited year abroad at a partner university in destinations like California, New York, or Texas
- Develop a sophisticated understanding of America's role in world history
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Course Overview
This BA in History and American Studies offers a dynamic exploration of the United States, combining its political and cultural development with broader global historical contexts. You will analyze the diverse forces that have shaped the nation, from its founding to its modern global influence, with the unique opportunity to spend a year studying in the USA.
Key Program Highlights
- Study at a top 10 UK Centre for American Studies, learning from world-leading academic experts
- Analyze the political, cultural, and economic events that forged the modern United States
- Customize your degree with modules in American and global history, politics, and culture
- Optional accredited year abroad at a partner university in destinations like California, New York, or Texas
- Develop a sophisticated understanding of America's role in world history
Requirements
The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.
Modules
- Making History
- The Government and Politics of the USA
- People and Places
- With Liberty and Justice for All? US History since 1776
- Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation
- Modern Britain: c1700-Present
- The Shock of the Modern
- Film and Literature
- Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
- Literature for Children and Young Adults
- Perceiving the Past
- Becoming the Historical Researcher
- Gender History
- A World Connected: Economy, Wellbeing and Sustainability since 1945
- Living with Dictatorship: European Societies, 1918-1941
- Fight the Power! Race, Rights and Protest in the USA
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Beastly Histories
- Diversity in Contemporary American Literature
- Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution
- Histories of Violence
- Madness, Monarchy and Politics from George III to Queen Victoria
- Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
- Enter the Dragon: An Introduction to Modern China
- History in the Classroom
- Working with History: The Heritage Field Project
- Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times
- YEAR ABROAD
- YEAR IN INDUSTRY
- After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
- Ideals of Womanhood in 19th-Century America
- The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833
- The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
- Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
- You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
- The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
- Sport and the British
- Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
- The American Presidency
- Apocalypse Then: The USA and the Vietnam War
- Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
- Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain
- Britain's Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism 1830-1939
- What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
- Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
- American Political Development
- History Dissertation
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