History induction information

About your programme

Module information

You’ll complete your course one block or ‘semester’ at a time. In each semester you’ll study modules. Some are core modules you have to take – others you’ll be able to choose between when you arrive, personalising the course to your interests.

In your first semester you will study the following modules:

• Doing History Core

Doing History (Core)

In this module you will think about the kind of work that historians do – why they write history in the ways that they do, why they ask particular types of questions, what assumptions they bring to their work, what historians think about other people’s ways of producing accounts about the past, and the role of historical knowledge in contemporary culture.

• Rethinking Modernity Core

Rethinking Modernity (Core)

Throughout this module, you will have the opportunity to learn key themes in modernity from the 17th century Enlightenment to the present day.

By exploring philosophical texts, historical contexts, literature, film, and art, we will explore themes such as toleration, equality and class.

In our seminars, we will consider the root of these ideas in modernity, and how they are still relevant today.

Further information about the structure of your course can be found within the programme specification document.