该课程使您有机会详细研究英国，欧洲和美国从1750年至今的现代时期。如果您获得该学位，您将研究现代西方社会和政治的演变，但是您的研究还将包括对西方态度影响较小的考虑，从大众文化的美国化到帝国的瓦解以及经济的全球化。活动。当然，尽管您将专注于近代和当代，但您仍将享受历史学学位的所有兴趣，刺激和经验。历史仍然是英国最受欢迎的学位课程之一。它具有既定的关注范围，但是随着它对其他学科提出的新主题或思想的回应，它一直在扩展和变化。这也是一门非常实用的科目，在您攻读学位期间，您将开发各种可转让的技能，这些都是雇主高度
This course provides the opportunity to study British, European and American history from the modern period to the present day. Through the topics studied you will learn how to examine contemporary issues in their historical context, exploring the development of modern society and politics. You will delve deeper into more specialised topics, such as Nazi Germany or the Cold War. The essential skills of analysis, argument and communication acquired are highly valued by employers.<br>This course aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of human History, concentrating on the period after 1750. It encourages you to take an analytical approach to the modern and contemporary eras, so that you can understand and contribute to historical controversies, and can understand ways in which the past is at least partly constructed in the present. It therefore hopes to train you intellectually so you can explain the relevance of the past in the present, understand the problems of interpreting written and other evidence, and gain skills of research, analysis, problem-solving, construction of argument and communication.<br>History is one of the most inspiring, dynamic and relevant subjects that can be studied at degree level, and so it is no surprise that History remains one of the most popular degree subjects in the UK. It has an established range of concerns, but it is always expanding and changing as it responds to new themes or ideas raised by other disciplines. It is also a very practical subject, and during your degree you will develop various transferable skills that employers value highly. Surveys consistently indicate that History graduates obtain employment more rapidly than graduates in many apparently more 'vocational' subjects.<br>Placement Year and International Experience Year Available<br><br>Careers<br>History is a very versatile degree. This course provides specialist knowledge and a range of analytical and presentational skills which will enable you to tackle a variety of career options centring on administrative and leadership needs, for example, in company personnel departments, the civil service and local government as well as in a range of directly transferable vocations. Our History graduates enter a wide range of employment: especially fields which require skills of communication, analysing large quantities of information, and understanding human nature. Graduates have in recent years gained careers in museum work, law, teaching and the cultural industries. Many graduates also progress to higher education postgraduate schemes.