该课程使您有机会详细研究欧洲，英国和威尔士的近现代时期（1750年之前）。这个时期见证了罗马的沦陷，但其遗产的延续，特别是在教堂，阿拉伯人，玛格亚人，维京人和奥斯曼帝国的入侵，十字军东征，大学的诞生，文艺复兴，宗教改革等方面，以及现代民族国家和政府形式的发展。当然，尽管您将专注于中世纪和近现代时期，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
This course gives you the opportunity to study the pre-modern world, c.500-1750 (especially Europe, Britain and Wales) in detail. You will develop an understanding of the foundations of the contemporary west, whilst developing a range of skills that includes efficient information gathering, critical analysis of evidence and the ability to present your ideas clearly. The degree culminates in the chance to design and write your own research project in the final year.<br>This course aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of human history, concentrating on the period before 1750. It encourages you to take an analytical approach to the medieval and early modern 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.