BA (Hons) History at University of Suffolk

Our BA (Hons) History will support you to follow your passion and gain the skills, knowledge and experience to succeed academically and professionally. You will learn about what happened in the past, why it happened, and why it matters today. You will learn to think critically, interpret evidence, and communicate your research with confidence.

Faculty: School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology  |  Duration: Three years full time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Making History (Mandatory), Doing History (Requisite), ‘Tudors and Stuarts’: Early Modern England, 1485-1714 (Requisite), Power, Resistance and Legacies: Global Empires Since 1500 (Requisite), The Making of Modern Britain 1750-1985 (Requisite). Year 2: History in Practice (Mandatory), 'Death or Liberty': The History of the United States 1770-2024 (Requisite), ‘Age of Extremes’; The Turbulent Twentieth Century, 1901-2001 (Requisite), Sex and Gender in British Society Since 1500 (Requisite), The History of Everyday Things (Requisite). Year 3: History Dissertation (Mandatory), ‘The Troubles’: The Long History of the Conflict in Northern Ireland. (Requisite), The Witch Hunt in East Anglia and Beyond (Requisite), Genocide: A Global History (Requisite), Britain at War: History, Memory and Legacy (Requisite).

Career pathways

A history degree prepares you for a very wide variety of career paths and we’re excited to help you on that journey. Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube from 2014-2023), former President of the United States Joe Biden, and Louis Theroux, as just three examples, have all graduated from history programmes.

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