History at Southampton

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History at the University of Southampton

Studying History with us

• Learn from expert tutors alongside other high-achieving students

• We are a Russell Group university

• In the top three of History departments in the UK for research

• Research by our academic staff is all world-leading or of international quality

• Friendly and flexible approach

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Year 1: Transitions and Choices

Core modules:• World Histories and World Ideologies

Cases and Contexts (a few examples):• Apocalyptic Visions• Augustus: The Roman Revolution?• Histories of Empire• The First Crusade• Gandhi and Gandhism• Henry VIII: Reputation and Reality• The French Revolution• Responses to the Holocaust• Histories of Empire• The Crimean War• America’s ‘War on Terror’

From the first year onwards our modules cover events and themes from around the globe … as well as close to home

Year 2: Teamwork and Options

Single-Honours History:• The Group Project

Option modules (a few examples):• Cleopatra’s Egypt• Plague, Fire and Popish Plots• Knights and Chivalry• The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800• Imperialism & Nationalism in British India• Wellington and Napoleon• The World at War, 1931-1961• Stalin and Stalinism• Building London 1666 – 2012• Jews in Germany before the Holocaust• Nelson Mandela• The Space Age

We study politics and elites as well as history from below - ‘giant leaps for mankind’ as well as day-to-day life

Year 3: Variety and creativity

Special Subject (a few examples):The Third Reich; The Rise of Islam; The Vietnam War; Slavery and Freedom; The British Empire in Africa;Medieval Love, Sex and Marriage; From Tyranny to Revolution: England 1625-49; The Reformation; Britain in the 1970s; The Holocaust

Alternative Histories (examples):Conquests; Cultures of Migration; Music & History;

Alternative Sexualities; Travellers’ Tales; The Bible; Medicine; Food and Cooking; Private Memory & Public History; History & Literature

The Dissertation: your own supervised research project

We offer options that cover a wide chronological range, from the ancient to the very modern, taking in big events as well as social history

How you’ll learn

• Lectures and seminars

• One-to-one tutorials and drop-in office hours

• Coursework and exams

• Regular feedback

• On-going opportunities to discuss your work with tutors

• We support you to become a confident and independent learner, ready to take on new challenges.

A few of the 40 academic members of staff in History who teach on the course

Supporting our students

Our learning and research resources include:

• The Hartley Library: largest university library in the south of England with over 1.5 million books

• Hartley Special Collections: a major British archive containing collections of international importance

• Avenue Campus: teaching library and computing facilities

• E-Learning and digitised reading

The Hartley Library: home to some of the resources you will use from the very start of your degree

Flexibility, choice and adventure

Minor pathways:

• Option to take five modules in a different subject to create a degree like ‘History with Criminology’

• Decide when you arrive

• More information: www.southampton.ac.uk/majorminor

You may also take single modules from outside History, including one of our new Curriculum Innovation Modules

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Options to study abroad:

• Europe: Socrates/Erasmus schemes

• Canada: University of Western Ontario

• Australia, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan, Latin America, USA

What next?Advertising Account Executive - PR Assistant - Accountant - Festival Coordinator - Credit Controller - Project Manager - Editorial Assistant - Website Community Editor - Market Analyst - Marketing Officer - Recruitment Consultant - Retail Manager - Archaeologist -TV Presenter - Army Officer - Library Assistant - Museums Assistant - Auditor - Teacher -Police Officer - Events Manager - Quantity Surveyor - Civil Servant - E-Learning Facilitator - Risk Manager - TEFL Teacher - Journalist - Management Consultant -Solicitor - Political Researcher

Arcadia - British Council – British Army - PricewaterhouseCoopers - Aker Kvaerner -Imperial War Museum - Wessex Archaeology - Blackwells - Government of Luxembourg -HM Revenue & Customs - Talkback Thames - Hampshire County Council - Civil Service -IBM - Royal Air Force - Bank of New York - Deloitte - Ernst & Young - Toyota - Microsoft - British Council - J P Morgan - World Bank - Jaguar - Lego - BBC - British Airways -Majestic Wine - Ernst & Young - House of Commons - Grant Thornton - Scarborough Museums Trust - Welsh Assembly

• Employability module—designed to help you compete for the best graduate-level jobs in the UK and overseas

• A wide range of careers services and activities

Knowing, growing and showing the skills for career success

Mission Employable

Humanities’ Employability Module

Aims of the Module:

Identify the skills

employers are looking

for

Help students develop

plans for their future

career

In addition to the module, the Humanities Peer-Mentoring Scheme helps our students to make the transition into the world of work.

The Southampton Opportunity Project

• To allow students to

discover and navigate the

opportunities available to

them

• To filter the choices based

on their degree, interests or

the skills they would like to

develop

• Follow the activities of the

project on Twitter:

www.twitter.com/UoS_OPUS

Everything we have discussed is part of the wider work of the Careers Destinations Service at the University of Southampton:http://www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/

Questions?

Please talk to us

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Visit: www.southampton.ac.uk/history

Email: ugapply.fh@southampton.ac.uk