History
Other Combined Honours degrees
UCAS code
The full list of programmes, including UCAS codes and duration, can be seen in the entry requirements table.
Location
Exeter (Streatham Campus)
BA History and Ancient History
If you choose to study Ancient History with History, you will study two modules per year from the Ancient History programme, including the core modules, Greek and Roman History, and two from History. The Ancient History modules offer you the chance to study the main issues of Greek and Roman history, society and political life and to explore the ways in which Greeks and Romans thought about their own past and you’ll be able to combine this with the study of Medieval or Modern history. For Ancient History, all texts are usually taught in translation, so you won’t have to study Latin or Greek language modules unless you choose to.
BA History and Politics or International Relations
History and International Relations allows you to combine these related yet also very different subjects and to study the historical evolution and contemporary character of world politics from different perspectives. This programme with Politics allows you to combine History with the study of political theory and practice and enables you to explore recurring themes in history, such as class, gender, ethnicity, religion and war alongside the study of political behaviour, institutions and ideas.
BA History and a Modern Language (French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish)
These programmes allow you to combine the study of History with French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish.
BA History and Philosophy
This programme allows you to develop analytical and argumentative skills (Philosophy) as well as deepen your knowledge of a range of historical themes across several countries and periods (History). You will be able to apply the philosophical method to concepts used in the historical discipline, as well as appreciate philosophy in its historical context.
BA History and Art History and Visual Culture
Visual culture is an exciting area of study which incorporates a number of established subject-areas, including art history and cultural studies. It will be of particular interest if your background is in fine and modern art, the history of art, cinema, literature, cultural history, philosophy, sociology or modern languages
The BA in History and Visual Culture is a Combined Honours degree which enables you to divide your time equally between these two related subject areas. You will study half of your modules from the BA History (see above) and the other half from Visual Culture.
By studying visual culture, you will learn how to interpret visual images in order to understand contemporary and past societies, and also how these images are a reflection of a society itself and the belief systems to which it adheres. For example, you might explore the emergence of a ‘society of the spectacle’ alongside the rise of reality TV and social media in everyday life, or the idea of ‘virtual war’.
During your second and third years you will be able to follow your interests through a wide range of optional modules: you can choose to study art and material culture in ancient societies; look in detail at the way art history works; or focus on visual culture within a specific society or time period right up to the modern day.
Our visual culture programme builds on Exeter’s internationally recognised buildings, artworks and collections. These include fine art collections, a sculpture walk and one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema.
Flexible Combined Honours
History may also be studied under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme which allows you to combine History with subjects not currently available as a Combined Honours or Joint Honours (Cornwall) programme.
Study abroad
If you take History with a Modern Language you will normally spend your third year abroad; for details please see Modern Languages.
For our other degree programmes, including those in Cornwall, you may study for half a year at a partner institution in Europe, North America or Australia. Students based at both campuses can also follow a four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ programme which allows you to spend your third year abroad. You may apply directly for the four-year programme or transfer from another programme once you are at the University. Full details of these schemes and of our partner institutions can be found on the Study Abroad page on our College website.
