**Course overview** - Understanding the past is crucial to analysing and responding to the political challenges of the future. Our BA (Hons) History and Politics degree will help you to see the bigger picture. - If you’re interested in the connections between today’s politics and their wider historical contexts, then this is the course for you. - You’ll learn to understand, evaluate and critically respond to external developments, processes and questions in historical and contemporary form that affect so many aspects of our daily lives. We’ll develop you into an independent thinker and researcher who’s capable of producing your own interpretations of historical events through analysis of the evidence. - The Politics element of the course provides you with training in political analysis and research methods. You’ll look at theoretical and empirical issues that affect people’s lives and prospects at the local, national and international level – and we don’t shy away from the controversial and practical questions. **Why study with us** - Our Politics courses are ranked 1st in the North West and 2nd in the UK for learning opportunities – National Student Survey (NSS) 2019. - We’re also ranked 3rd in the North West for both ‘overall student satisfaction’ and ‘assessment and feedback’ – National Student Survey (NSS) 2019. - Opportunities to go on work placements with host organisations such as Lancashire Archives, the People’s History Museum and the Lancashire Museum Service. **Further information** On this course you’ll benefit from our Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership (CVCL) which enables you to get involved in projects which make a positive difference to people’s lives. They offer a range of volunteering projects in the UK and Internationally so you’re bound to find something that inspires you.

Year 1: Compulsory Modules; Understanding History, Power, Politics and the State, British Politics. Optional Modules: The Making of Britain, 1688-1815, State and Society: Europe 1815-1914, Nations and Empires in Asia: China, India, Japan and Thailand 1857-1949, Colony to Nation: America 1750-1970, Public History, Heritage and Society, Alliances, Coalitions and Organisations in International Relations since 1945 Year 2: Compulsory Modules: Sources and Methods in History, Globalisation: History, Theories and Approaches, Research Methods in International Relations and Politics. Optional Modules: Europe in an Age of Atrocity, 1914-2000, Twentieth Century Britain, Rebellion to Partition: Ireland, c.1795-1921, Cold War in Asia: History, Conflict and Society 1949-89, Colonial Impacts: Africa 1652 - 1910, Good, Bad & Downright Evil: Perceptions of Crime and Punishment in England 1700-1900, America and the World 1898-2001, Community History Project, State and Society in Britain, c.1700-1918, Public History in Practice, History of Political Ideas, Radical Politics and Political Ideas from Lloyd George to Tony Blair Year 3: Core Modules: History Dissertation, or Politics Dissertation. Optional Modules: Germany under the Nazis, c.1933-45, Public Space in the English City: A Social and Cultural History, c.1850-1910, Education, Society and Culture in England, c. 1790-1914, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan since 1947: International Conflict, Religion and Democracy, African Nationalism and Independence 1921-1982, Riots and Revolution: Popular Politics and the English Working Class, c.1770-1848, A Place Apart? The Northern Ireland Troubles, Kennedy, Johnson and the World, 1961-1969, Thatcher’s Britain 1979-1990, Work Placement in History, Museum Exhibition Design, Terrorism and Security, Ethics, War and Society, Contemporary Anglo-American Political Philosophy, Continuity and Change in British Politics, Terrorism and Security, Political Islam and Islamic Movements

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

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IELTS (Academic)	6.0	with no component score less than 5.5 (To have been taken within two years of the course commencement date)

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England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1

*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate

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