History at Warwick

Warwick History Department

• 2nd in the latest Research Assessment Exercise • 6th in the 2014 The Complete University Guide and 16th in the

QS World Rankings by Subject• 40 permanent academic staff, who research the histories of

Africa, the Americas, Britain, China, Continental Europe, and South Asia

• Over 600 undergraduate students and over 100 postgraduate students

• The Department hosts three research centres: the Centre for the History of Medicine, the Global History and Culture Centre, and the Eighteenth Century Centre

History Degrees at Warwick

• Single Honours History (3 years)• ‘Modern History Stream’• ‘Renaissance and Modern History Stream’

• History, Literature & Cultures of the Americas (4 years)• History and Politics (3 years)• History and Sociology (3 years)• History and Italian (4 years)• French and History (4 years)• German and History (4 years)• History (part-time)

Single Honours HistoryModern History Stream

• Year One• Two core modules, ‘The Making of the Modern World’ and ‘Making History’• Two option modules selected from a set of broad-themed team-taught options• The choice to swap one of the option modules for a language module, such as French,

German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.• Year Two

• One core module, ‘The European World’• Three option modules, at least one in early modern history• For those who studied language in Year One, the choice to continue studying that

language in place of one of the option modules• Year Three

• One core module, ‘Historiography’• One ‘Advanced Option’ module• One ‘Special Subject’ module• One Dissertation

Single Honours HistoryRenaissance & Modern History Stream

• Year One• Three core history modules, ‘The Making of the Modern

World’, ‘The Medieval World’, and ‘Making History’• One Italian language module

• Year Two• One core module, ‘The European World’• Two option modules, at least one in early modern history• One Italian language half-module and a Renaissance

Research Project

• Year Three• One core module, ‘Florence and Venice in the Renaissance’,

taught in Venice during the Autumn term• One core module, ‘Historiography’• One ‘Special Subject’ module• One Dissertation

Venice at dusk

Venice at night

History & Politics

Year 1: 1) Making of the Modern World2) Making History3) Introduction to Politics4) World Politics

Year 3: Scheme A (predominately Politics)• Advanced Option or Special Subject• Issues in Political Theory• 2 x 3rd Year Politics Options

Scheme C (equally weighted)• Special Subject• Advanced Option or Dissertation or Historiography• 2 x 3rd Yr Politics Options

Year 2: 1) 2nd Year History Option (early modern)2) 2nd Year History Option3) Political Theory from Hobbes4) 2nd Year Politics Option

Scheme B (predominately History)• Advanced Option and Special Subject• Dissertation or Historiography• 1 x 3rd Year Politics Option

Year Abroad Opportunities• A year abroad is available through the ‘Erasmus Programme’, the ‘Americas

Exchange Programme’, the China Year Abroad (to Xiamen University), and the Australia Year Abroad (to Monash University)

• Places are allocated to students on a competitive basis through an application and interview process early in their second year

• Students transfer to a four-year course, with the year abroad as the third year of study before returning for their final year at Warwick

• Significant fee reduction for year abroad

• Erasmus Programme destinations:• France (Clermont-Ferrand and Paris Diderot), Italy (Turin and Venice),

Germany (Oldenburg and Darmstadt), Spain (Seville and MadridComplutense), and Turkey (Koç and Boğaziçi, both in Istanbul)

• Americas Exchange Programme destinations include:• Connecticut, South Carolina, Wisconsin, California, Toronto, British Columbia, Barbados,

Buenos Aires, and Santiago

Examples of Second Year Option ModulesIn Modern History

• Caribbean History: From Colonisation to Independence• "The Country of the Future?" Introduction to the History of Modern Brazil• History of Russia• History of Germany• Britain in the Twentieth Century• The History of Modern China• History of France• Gender, History and Politics in Britain, 1790-1939• Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe c. 1848-1989• Radical Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in Europe, 1918-1939• Africa and the Cold War• Reform, Revolt and Reaction: the USA 1930-1975• From Cradle to Grave: Health, Medicine and Society in Modern Britain

Examples of Second Year Option ModulesIn Early Modern History

• Germany in the Age of the Reformation• Religion and Religious Change in England• Georgian Britain• Galleons and Caravans• Deviance and Non-Conformity• Early American Social History• Politics, Literature and Ideas in Stuart England• The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities 1558-1714• The Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1453-1922• English Social History 1500-1700• Society and Culture in France• British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics• The Renaissance in Europe

Examples of Final Year Advanced Options

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• A History of the Latin American Drug Trade• China Encounters the Wider World • Conflict and Memory in Post-Colonial Africa • Florence and Venice in the Renaissance (taught in Venice)• Gender in Europe 1350-1650 • Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia, 1895-present • Legacies of National Socialism in the Arab World • Madness and Society • Medicine in America: from the Columbian Exchange to the Cancer

Wars • Non-violent Resistance: A Global History 1830-2000 • Stalinism in Europe 1928-1953 • The American West • The Victorian City • The World of the Tavern

Examples of Final Year Special Subjects

• Anti-fascism, Resistance and Liberation in Western Europe• British Culture and the Great War • Florence in the Age of Dante• India After Indira• McCarthy to Elvis: America in the Fifties• Northern Ireland 1968-1998• Radicalism in the English Revolution• Religious Conflict and Civil War in France, c. 1560-1600• Slavery and Slave Life in the American South 1619-1865 • The Birth of Modern Society? Britain 1660-1720 • The Elizabethan Reformation • The Russian Revolution, 1914-1921• Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans

Graduate EmploymentWhat graduates from UK universities are doing64.8% in work14% in further study9.6% combining work and study7.4% still seeking work4.3% not available/other

Compared to graduates from Warwick’s History department46.9% in work32.7% in further study6.8% combining work and study8% still seeking work5.6% not available/other

• 85.4% of Warwick’s graduates from the History department are in graduate level work or further study and their median salary, six months after graduation, is £18,000.

• Warwick is 4th in the Russell Group for graduate level jobs and 3rd in the highest average salary.