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History at Coventry University - UCAS

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Course summary

Choose your start date. You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. Course Overview: This course is for those passionate about considering history through a global lens. Engage with significant themes that shape our understanding of the modern world and develop a broad portfolio of experience, from writing to content creation, designed to support your employability. Key course content includes:

  • war, conflict, and the media
  • primary and secondary source analysis
  • environmental movements and debates on sustainable development
  • resistance of Indigenous peoples
  • public and cultural history
  • slavery and non-freedom around the world
  • injustice in the international system.
Why you should study this course
  • Expertise: learn from historians with proven teaching excellence and high-quality publications. (Staff subject to change.)
  • Diverse themes: gain insights into wartime media, environmental and indigenous history of the Americas, gender/social change, and global slavery.
  • Employability: prepare for postgraduate study and careers requiring strong research and analytical skills.
  • Ethics and values: engage with a range of sources and methods to understand structural inequalities and amplify marginalised voices.
**Collaborations Endorsement: Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)** Coventry University and the RSA have collaborated on a module concerning security, warfare and rebellion. You will be entitled to a 12-month fellowship of the RSA so you can access all RSA resources and platforms during your period of study. Once you have successfully passed the module Security, Warfare and Rebellion, you will receive an RSA digital credential.

Modules

War and Society - 30 credits Thinking Critically about the Past (and the Future) - 30 credits Cultural Heritage and Public History - 30 credits Global Affairs in Action - 30 credits Global Slavery, Historic Memory - 30 credits Fighting Justice in the International System - 30 credits For the latest information, please view our website.


Entry requirements

An honours degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a social science or humanities related discipline. We recognise a breadth of qualifications; speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

2025/26 fees TBC. Please see our website for latest information.
History at Coventry University - UCAS