Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Explore the past to understand the now. Dive into moments of challenge, change and everyday life across six centuries and four continents. Uncover the ways in which diverse groups of people were shaped by, and themselves shaped, the world they lived in. In doing so, you can reflect on your own values and better understand how history is about the present, and the future. The city of Portsmouth has its own rich stories to tell, connecting to local, national and global history. Past and present meet on every corner - from its Tudor Castle to the millennial Spinnaker Tower. It's the ideal place to create your own immersive and relevant BA (Hons) History degree. Course highlights
- Study in a city that’s always been a gateway to the wider world, with options to explore the past of Britain, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America
- Get closer to history thanks to close links with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, and the Portsmouth Museum and Records Service
- Tailor your studies to times and themes you find most fascinating - from the British Civil Wars to the Opium War, from Victorian cities to modern Germany
- Learn in a place where historians collaborate with linguists, sociologists and political scientists to answer deep and complex questions
- Develop demonstrable skills in research, analysis and argument that are highly valued by all kinds of employers
- Apply your new expertise in a CV-boosting work placement at a museum, heritage site, charity or other organisation of interest
- BA (Hons) History with American Studies
- BA (Hons) History with Sociology
- archives and information management
- corporate governance
- creative industries
- heritage
- law
- primary and secondary schools
- higher education providers
- publishing and media
- trade unions
- administrator for social enterprise
- barrister
- case worker for MP
- development editor in publishing
- exhibitions project manager
- founder of a digital solutions company
- researcher and writer for TV
- teacher
- workplace financial education consultant
- central and local government
- higher education providers
- National Trust
- National Maritime Museum
- NHS
- the probation service
- Royal Navy
Subject options
This course offers the following subject options:
- History with American Studies
- History with Sociology
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Beliefs, Communities, and Conflicts: Europe 1400-1750 (20 credits)
- Discovering World Histories: Peoples and Places (20 credits)
- Societies, Nations, and Empires: Europe 1750-2000 (20 credits)
- Thinking Like An Historian (20 credits)
- Traces of the Past: Exploring Lives Through Sources (40 credits)
- Debating the Past: Historical Case Studies (20 credits)
- Working With the Past (20 credits)
- A History of US Foreign Policy: From the Great War to 9/11 (20 credits)
- Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa (20 credits)
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences (20 credits)
- Envisioning Ourselves: Media and the Making of Modern Britain, 1850-2000 (20 credits)
- Global Security (20 credits)
- Intercultural Perspectives On Communication (20 credits)
- Introduction to Teaching (20 credits)
- Marketing & Communication (20 credits)
- Modernity and Globalisation (20 credits)
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday (L5) (20 credits)
- News, Discourse, and Media (20 credits)
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation (20 credits)
- Professional Experience L5 (20 credits)
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature (20 credits)
- Slavery and Resistance in the Atlantic World (20 credits)
- The Hidden Lives of Things: Material Culture in the Early Modern World (20 credits)
- Transitional Justice & Human Rights (20 credits)
- Underworlds: Crime, Deviance & Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900 (20 credits)
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response (20 credits)
- Specialist Option: Empires and Identities (20 credits)
- Specialist Option: Everyday Life, Extraordinary Lives and Challenging Inequality (20 credits)
- Specialist Option: Popular Cultures (20 credits)
- Specialist Option: Societies in Revolution (20 credits)
- Everyday Slaughter? Accidents and Safety in Britain, c.1850-1970
- Sex, Gender and Power in Early Modern England
- Civil Rights USA
- The Opium War, 1839-1842
- The Imperial City: Popular Culture, Slums and Scandal in Britain, 1780-1939
- Racism and Anti-Racism in Post-war Britain
- Conflict, Conspiracy Consensus: Religious Identities in Elizabethan England
- Britain in Revolution: the Impact of the Civil Wars: 1637-1662
- The French Revolution
- Thomas Jefferson and the Making of the American Republic
- Cinema-going in Wartime Britain
- Magic and Modernity, 1780-1900
- The Making of the German Nation
- Dissertation (History) (40 credits)
- Major Project (40 credits)
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through a variety of formats. The emphasis is on giving you a range of ways to demonstrate what you’ve learned and how your thinking has developed. Your history degree with us is weighted more towards coursework than traditional exams. Assessment types include: written essays written reports blogs podcasts individual presentations group presentations dissertation You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so that you can continue to develop and improve The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Year 1 students: 8% by written exams, 10% by practical exams and 82% by coursework Year 2 students: 22% by practical exams and 78% by coursework Year 3 students: 24% by practical exams and 76% by coursework
How to apply
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.
Application codes
- Course code:
- V100
- Institution code:
- P80
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 104 - 112 points
A level - BBC - BCC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H4, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - Not accepted
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
PTE Academic | 62 | An overall score of 62 with a minimum of 59 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components. |
Student Outcomes
There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9535 | Year 1 |
England | £9535 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9535 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9535 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
International | £17200 | Year 1 |
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
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP