Varied Courses

Which Uni's offer the most varied history courses would you say? Because there are a few aspects of history which I'm really interested in studying, but alot of places only offer a couple of them, so I was wondering if anyone could suggest any uni's with a really broad choice?

Reply 1

angels&airwaves

What aspects of history are you interested in studying?? I want to go to the UEA - it has a really broad history course. Lancaster's course is also very broad, mainly because you choose 3 subjects in your first year - so you can pick the topics that interest you the most.

Reply 2

~Bex~

angels&airwaves

The main things I want to study are: Nazi Germany, Witchcraft history and African history

Reply 3

scary_mary

try birmingham - they have a dept for african studies and u may be able to do a joint honours with history. one of the research seminar options is south africa. u study that for a term for 10credits.

Reply 4

Xanthe

What about SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies)?

Reply 5

EllieR

I'm in my final year at Durham and 5/6 of my modules are African history (including my dissertation and triple module special subject). I also did one African module in my first year and two in my second.

I have studied Nazi Germany over my first two years but I'm not sure about the witchcraft.

Reply 6

~Bex~

EllieR

Yeah, Durham looks really good but the problem is that I currently live in Durham and I want to move away!

Reply 7

Jo B

St Andrews!!

Go to St Andrews!!

I seem to be on a big St Andrews promotional posting day today, but it really is a top uni for History. I did my undergrad there and loved it to bits. Had a brilliant four years and really benefited from the Scottish system which lets you take lots of subjects in your first two years. I did Medieval, Scottish, Modern and Ancient History courses, as well as a couple of Philosophy module and one course in Human Biology!

It has to be one of the most flexible courses imaginable. If you're not sure precisely what kind of history you want to do, I don't think St A can be beaten. You'll get to try lots of things, specialise if you want to, or generalise if you don't.

Take a look!

Jo
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Reply 8

~Bex~

Jo B

I had a look at St Andrews and it looks really good but according to the website one of the entrance requirements is GCSE in a foreign language which I don't have :frown:

I don't know how flexible they are with this rule but I already want to apply to a couple of unis that say that GCSE foreign language is 'desirable'/required so I don't want to risk all my applications on that.

Reply 9

exmoorkatie

or you could just start studying for a gcse and say u are doing this outside of your school life.... that would impress them and plus tis soooooooooo easy to pass a gcse language!

Reply 10

~Bex~

exmoorkatie

or you could just start studying for a gcse and say u are doing this outside of your school life.... that would impress them and plus tis soooooooooo easy to pass a gcse language!

I really thought about doing this but
A) most places near me make you sit basic classes for a term, then intermediate, before your allowed to start learning for the GCSE, so itd take me ages
B) Im not sure if I have time
C) It could cause clashes with AS exams (I know this isn't a huge deal, but I'd rather avoid it if at all possible.

Reply 11

Sian01

York has a really varied course - it was by far the best course of the unis I got offers from. I can't remember specifically what you can do, but I remember being really impressed, and the course nearly made me pick it as my first choice.

I'm at Bristol at the moment and studying "paganism in victorian times" which sounds what you are after...you could also do "south africa and the apartheid". However, you do have to do 2 compulsory modules on medieval history and revoultionary europe. Bristol's course isn't the most varied of courses I looked at, but I'm so happy I chose it, I love it here :biggrin:

and I love the department!!

Reply 12

exmoorkatie

does your town not have a college? they will do night classes for sure :smile:

and GCSE's wont clash with AS levels, seen as you have 2 years left at school you might as well

Reply 13

~Bex~

exmoorkatie

does your town not have a college? they will do night classes for sure :smile:

and GCSE's wont clash with AS levels, seen as you have 2 years left at school you might as well

GCSEs can clash with A levels, as there is about a two week overlap.

Reply 14

exmoorkatie

but if i remember rightly the languages are right at the beginning of the Gcse exam stuff :biggrin:

Reply 15

~Bex~

Either way, I really don't wanna take the risk, and with 5 AS levels already, I don't know if I honestly have enough time, because I don't want to start something else and let that make my grades drop overall.