Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - History
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,750 GBP/year
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
You can investigate everything from the racist roots of modern science to the use of cuisine, cartoons, and landscapes as primary materials when you pick history at Oxford Brookes. You’ll dive into the social, cultural and political ideas of our world today, including:
- crime
- gender
- warfare
- nationalism
You'll be taught by history-loving experts. You'll get one-on-one advice to maximize your degree. You'll go on interesting field trips, treading in Jack the Ripper's footsteps and experiencing Oxford's famed museums, like the Ashmolean. You'll uncover your potential for greatness and obtain career-relevant skills whether you study poisoning or gender in culture.
You will acquire highly transferrable career skills while you study in the areas that matter to employers. You'll develop assured and sophisticated writing abilities. You'll gain practice working in groups. And you'll be able to think critically and creatively, which are essential abilities for the workplace of the twenty-first century.
Program structure
Year 1
- A People’s History of Britain
- Europe and the World, 1450-1750
- Foundations of History
- Power and Dominion: Ideologies of the West, 1650-2000
- Superpowers: an International History of the Cold War
- World at War: A History of the First World War
Optional modules
- Bloody Histories: Crime and Violence in the West
- Death, Disease and Doctors: Medicine and Society
- Oxford in History
- The Faiths of the West
Year 2
- Creating History 2: Researching Primary Materials
- Researching History 1: Historians and Historiography
- The Making of Modern Britain: Culture, Community and Family in Britain 1660-1918
- The Making of Modern Britain: Politics, Society and Culture in Modern Britain, c. 1815-1997
- The Making of the Modern World: Age of Revolution and Popular Protest
- The Making of the Modern World: Brave New Worlds: Evolution and its Discontents
- The Making of the Modern World: Crisis of the West
Optional modules
- A History of Modern Ideas
- Conflict and Belief in the Early Modern World
- Crime and Punishment through the Ages
- Genders, Sexualities and Bodies
- Jack the Ripper and the Victorian Underworld
- The Early Modern State
- The Making of the American Giant, 1861-1945
- Putting History to Work
- Investigation and Discovery 1
- Investigation and Discovery 2
Year 3
- History Dissertation/ Project
Optional modules
- Political History: the Soviet Revolution, 1905-1941
- Political History: Britain and the Sea
- Political History: The Unravelling of Russia
- Political History: Tudors: Reformation and Revolt
- Social, Cultural and Medical History: Immigrants and Minorities in Early Modern England, c. 1453–1753
- Social, Cultural and Medical History: Life in Renaissance Italy
- Social, Cultural and Medical History: Religion and Magic in Everyday Life
- Social, Cultural and Medical History: The History of Food, Politics and Society
- Social, Cultural and Medical History: War and Medicine: from the Napoleonic Wars to Afghanistan
- The History of Crime: Forensic Medicine in Western Society
- The History of Crime: Witchcraft, Magic and Belief in Early Modern Europe
- The History of Crime: In Cold Blood: Violence in the Modern Era
- History of America: The Vietnam War
- History of America: American Grand Strategy in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
- The History of Ideas: Evil in European Thought and Culture 1750-1950
- The History of Ideas: On Race and Racism
Price
- Tuition Fee - 16,750 GBP per year
Requirements for applicants
General Entry Requirements
- Acceptable passes in five subjects (exceptionally four subjects) at GCSE or GCE including:
- one 12-unit vocational A-level, or
- two A-levels or two 6-unit vocational A-levels, or
- one A-level or 6-unit vocational A-level plus two AS-levels, or
- two 3-unit vocational A-levels
- A National Certificate or Diploma at a good standard.
- The International Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 24 points) or the European Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 60%).
- Five subjects in SCE with two at Higher level or one at Advanced Higher level.
- Three subjects in Scottish Highers or two at Advanced Higher level.
- Any other qualifications considered by the Academic Board to be of equivalent standard.
English language requirements
- IELTS level 6.5 or 7.0 overall with 6.5 or 7.0 in all components
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
