Overview
Our History programme is diverse, international in focus and innovative. Exploring primarily modern and contemporary history, this course will teach you the skills for effective research and analysis, helping to hone your ability to absorb, understand and communicate complex information.
We cover British, South Asian, European and African and North and South American history alongside the more niche topics of photographic history, the history of sport and leisure, war and conflict, migration, ethnicity and racism, and employability.
We use a mixture of year-long and half-year modules to allow you to study a wide range of different subject and experience a variety of diverse teaching methods and types of assessment. As you progress through the course, we’ll challenge you with more in-depth explorations, and the subject matter will become increasingly complex. You’ll be supported by a passionate teaching team who provide an interactive and dynamic learning environment.
At DMU, you can study History and Politics or History and International Relations as a joint honours course, broadening your understanding of events that shape our world. You will choose 50 per cent of your options from our History modules and 50 per cent from Politics or International Relations modules.
Key features
- Specialise in distinctive areas such as photographic history, history of sport and leisure, war and conflict, migration, history and employability, ethnicity and racism.
- Develop a wide range of transferable skills by learning how to research and communicate complex information effectively. Our graduates use these skills to forge successful careers across a range of professions including teaching, the law, marketing and the heritage and museum sector.
- Benefit from expert teaching delivered by our team of renowned academics, as well as gain wider knowledge and insight through organised trips to archives and museums such as The National Archives in London.
- Develop transferable skills by learning how to research and communicate complex information effectively and apply this to a real-world context through a placement. Previous students have gained professional experience at a large regional newspaper, Leicester’s award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre, and taught at a school in Spain.
- Enhance your studies through DMU Global, our international experience programme. History students have previously learned about Jewish immigrant life in New York, discovered Danish heritage in Copenhagen and explored the legacies of authoritarian rule in Berlin.
Structure and assessment
Course modules
First year
- Presenting and Representing the Past
- The Making of the Modern World
Second year
Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- British India 1857–1947
- Visualising the Modern World 1860-1950 (half-year option)
- Newton to Nuclear – An Introduction to the History of Science
- The Cold War
- Mass Observing Britain in War and Peace, 1936-1951 (half-year option)
- Unity and Diversity in the United States
- History and Heritage (half-year option)
- Sport in the British Empire (half-year option)
- The Historian’s Craft: Sources and Methods in History (Compulsory for joint honours students wishing to do a History dissertation in third year).
Third year
Students choose two year-long History modules, or the equivalent made up of a mixture of the full and half-year options listed below.
- Dissertation
- Nationalism, Racism and Genocide in Twentieth Century Europe
- Yugoslavia and Beyond
- The Olympics (half-year option)
- Photography and Conflict (half-year option)
- The Sporting Body (half-year option)
- Borders and Boundaries: Legacies of Colonial Rule: India and Pakistan since 1947
- Environment and Society in the Americas (half-year option)
- Textual Studies Using Computers
Facilities and features
Clephan Building
Clephan Building is home to DMU’s humanities subjects, and is equipped with the latest audio-visual equipment and cinema screens.
Currently Clephan houses some key Arts, Design and Humanities student support facilities including the Arts, Design and Humanities Placement Team and the Faculty’s Advice Centre, where you can access information about timetabling, specialist support queries. and any other questions you may have about your course.
The building also features the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing, Centre for Textual Studies, Centre for Adaptations, and the International Centre for Sports History and Culture.
Library
The main Kimberlin Library is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (other than in exceptional circumstances) and offers a huge range of online resources, all of which can be remotely accessed from anywhere you choose.
The library is run by dedicated staff who offer additional support to students, including help with academic writing, research strategies, literature searching and reference management and assistive technology, and mathematical skills for non-maths students. There is also a Just Ask service for help and advice, available via email or telephone.
Learning zones
Our comfortable and well-equipped study areas provide a range of environments to suit your needs.
Our Learning Zones and The Greenhouse provide flexible spaces, whether you are working as a group, practising a presentation or working quietly on your own.
They feature workstations with power supplies for laptops, plus bookable syndicate rooms with plasma screens, laptops and DVD facilities. Wi-Fi is available across all campus locations.
Opportunities and careers
Placements
There are plenty of opportunities to undertake work experience or placements while studying at DMU. Unlike many other History degree courses, this can be done through the curriculum so that your time on placement counts towards your degree mark.
Our students also undertake work experience outside of their studies, such as acting as History mentors for GCSE students in local schools and colleges and working in local museums, archives, and libraries. These include: the King Richard III visitor centre, Leicester County Council photographic archives and Leicestershire Library Service.
#DMUglobal
This is our innovative international experience programme which aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you to become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers across the world. Through #DMUglobal, we offer a wide range of opportunities including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as Erasmus+ and international exchanges.
DMU History students have access to a wide range of international experiences that will complement their Historical studies through the #DMUglobal initiative. Previous visits have included Germany, United States and the Caribbean.
Graduate careers
History at DMU has very strong graduate employability rates. 95 per cent of those that graduated between 2012 and 2015 were in work or further study six months after completing their degrees – 1.5 per cent higher than the average for all History University courses across the same period (Source: Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey, 2012-2015).
The course equips you with excellent subject-specific skills, from analysis and research to reasoning and evaluation. You will also develop aptitudes and characteristics that will improve your employability such as initiative, teamwork and communication.
History undergraduate study prepares students for a wide variety of different occupations and professions. Many of our graduates have forged successful careers after studying with us. For example, working for a major law firm in the City of London whose clients include Arsenal FC and the London Olympic Legacy group, an archivist in the National Archives, a reporter for the Daily Express, a university History lecturer and a teacher for Her Majesty’s Prison Service.
Around 15 to 20 per cent of our graduates go on to pursue postgraduate study. Master’s courses in History, Politics and International Relations are particularly popular options, as are postgraduate teacher-training courses (PGCEs).
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