History

BA

Full Time

| UCAS code: V100

Currently, students study the following modules shown below. King's reviews its modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School/department for further advice.

YEAR 1

Students begin the degree by taking modules offering a broad sweep of history, which deliver an understanding of the context of events over a broad period of time and are intended as introductory level modules.

Introductory module:

Historical Skills, Sources & Approaches

Optional modules:
(students choose one module from each of the three following time periods)

Medieval History

The Making of Britain 400-1400
Medieval Europe 400-1500

Early Modern History

Early Modern Britain 1500-1750
Power, Belief and Culture in Europe 1500-1800
The Worlds of the British Empire, c1730-1960

Modern History

Europe from 1793 to 1991
Politics and Society in Britain, 1780-1945
The Worlds of the British Empire, c1730-1960

First year module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level4/index.aspx

YEAR 2

During the second year students move on to select more focused options. These modules introduce thematic study across a narrower time period encouraging a more comparative approach to history. Second year students take two compulsory modules and choose a number of optional modules. Students also have the oppotunity to study a modern langauge in their second year, for details of languages offered see the Modern Language Centre.

Compulsory modules

History and Memory I
History and Memory II

Typical optional modules

British Economic History from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Church, State and Nation in Britain, 1750-1939
Crime and the Law 1500-1750
Europe in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
European Jewry & the Transition to Modernity, 1650 - 1850
Faith, Nation and Empire in Modern East-Central Europe (1800-present)
From Crowd to Court: Cultures of Politics in Later Hanoverian Britain
The French Civil War, 1934-1970
Friends. Political Bonds in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy (1300-1550)
Greek History down to 322BC
The History of Australia since 1788
History of Political Ideas I
History of Political Ideas II
History of the Iberian World, 1492-1822
History of the Roman Empire
The Nobility & Gentry of Medieval England, 1150-1500
The Northern Ireland Troubles
Religion & Society in Southern Europe
Roman History down to 31BC
The Soviet Union and Russia, 1945-2000
Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
Theories of Modern History I
Theories of Modern History II

Second year students can also choose to take a module at another College of the University of London. A full list of intercollegiate History modules can be found here: http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses

Second year module descriptions can be found on our website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/modules/level5/index.aspx

YEAR 3

Study becomes even more focused in the third year, where students choose a Group III module which involves studying primary source materials and writing a research dissertation. This specialised approach is balanced by choosing one Thematic Special Subject, in which students think comparatively and theoretically about the different periods and places they have studied in their degree so far. In addition, third year students choose to study either a second year module (see above) or write a free-standing dissertation of 10,000 words on a research topic of their choice, individually supervised by a member of academic staff.

Typical Group III modules

Alexander the Great
Augustus: Power and Propaganda
Australia in the Second World War: Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy
Britain's Thatcher
British Imperial Policy and Decolonisation, 1938-1964
Caribbean Intellectual History since 1800
Carolingian Europe, c.750-900
The Making of a Colonial Regime: Eastern India, 1780-1820
The Norman Conquest of Britain
The Origins of Reformation in England
Reform & Rebellion in England, 1215-1267
Romans & Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700
Women & Gender in Early Modern England
Any intercollegiate Group III (please see http://www.history.ac.uk/syllabus/intercollegiate-courses)

Thematic Special Subject modules