Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year

BA (Hons) History with Study Abroad

1. Programme Details

Programme name	BA (Hons) History with Study Abroad	Programme code	UFA4HPSHPSCB
Study mode(s)	Part Time Full Time	Academic year	2024/5
Campus(es)	Cornwall Campus	NQF Level of the Final Award	6 (Honours)

2. Description of the Programme

This programme offers a traditional basis in British, European and world history, but it is in the last area that we are particularly strong and innovative. Our strengths lie in using history to understand the challenges posed by globalisation, ethnic conflict and scientific and environmental change. Equally exciting is our commitment to public history, which will give you the opportunity to carry out work experience within museums, galleries and similar organisations. You may be working on your own or as part of a team; either way, you will develop skills and gain experience which will help you to compete in today’s competitive graduate job market. Work experience may involve activities such as researching and preparing materials for a museum exhibition; documenting and researching collections of photographs, maps, costumes or military memorabilia; writing short magazine articles or recording oral histories.

As with History in Exeter, research is integral to all our work and members of staff are nationally and internationally recognised for their research activities. You will directly benefit from this as our research influences the teaching on our undergraduate programmes. Our expertise is concentrated in the modern period, approximately from 1600 to the present, incorporating social and cultural history, international and economic history and many geographical areas, including the Far and Middle East, Europe and Britain and the Americas. As you might expect from a programme based in Cornwall, we reflect environmental and ecological approaches to history in our teaching as well as the more traditional cultural, political, social and economic aspects.

The BA (Hons) History with Study Abroad programme builds on a broad foundation in the first year, to highly specialised work in the final year, including the study of a particular subject in depth. There is a huge amount of module choice covering time periods from the Roman Empire to the 1960s and topics as diverse as the Vikings, early medieval empires, British politics since 1900, women in society, the Norman conquest, magic and witchcraft in early modern Europe and reformation London.

This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent at a university abroad on an approved programme of study.

Living and studying in a different country is an exciting experience that broadens your academic and cultural horizons, as well as giving you the opportunity to widen your circle of friends. Students who have studied abroad demonstrate initiative, independence, motivation and, depending on where they stay, may also have gained a working knowledge of another language – all key qualities that employers are looking for in today’s competitive employment environment.

We have partnership arrangements with many prestigious institutions across the globe. Exactly where you can apply to study will depend on the subjects you are studying at Exeter. For a full list please visit the Study Abroad website. Please refer to your Study Abroad co-ordinator for further details.

Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.

3. Educational Aims of the Programme

The programme is intended to:

Offer you an excellent Honours-level education in History.
Introduce you to a wide range of historical problems and the main analytical and critical approaches of the discipline.
Produce graduates who can engage imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing complex and sophisticated problems in the discipline by critical approaches that blend detailed and broad levels of analysis.
Develop independent critical thinking and judgement.
Give you the skills necessary for further study or employment after your degree.

The Study Abroad option will provide you with the opportunity to study in a university abroad and to give you an insight into the culture of the host country.

4. Programme Structure

5. Programme Modules

The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/studyinformation/modules/?prog=hass-cornwall

You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in any stage of the programme as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

Stage 1

90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HIC1604	New Approaches to History	15	No
HIC1602	Crafts of Research and Writing	15	No
HIC1605	European History: Politics and Society	15	No
HIC1007	People's History: Sources and Skills	15	No
HIC1610	An Introduction to Histories of Science and the Environment	15	No
HIC1611	Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations	15	No

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HUM1005	Climate Emergency - An Introduction to Environmental Humanities	15	No
HIC1010	Foundations of Environmental Humanities	15	No
BEP1160	Business History	15	No

Stage 2

30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules

Compulsory Modules

a - You must select either HIC2200 or HUC2002.

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HIC2200	Public History Project [See note a above]	30	No
HUC2002	Perspectives on Sources: Independent Study Project in the Humanities [See note a above]	30	No

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HIC Stage 2 History Option Modules 2024-5
HIC2029	Histories of Everyday Life in Modern Cornwall	15	No
HUC2015	Revolution and Abolition: History and Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade	15	No
HUC2013	Enlightenment and the Age of Reason: Philosophy, Politics, Society	15	No
HIC2316	The Occult in Victorian Britain	15	No
HIC2037	Earth Matters: Soil, Society and the Humanities	15	No
HIC2038	Caribbean Histories: Colonialism, Resistance, and Environmental Crisis	15	No
HIC2324	Organised Crime in USA	15	No
HIC2009	Ecology and Empire	15	No
HUC2012	The Age of Unreason? Modernity and its Discontents	15	No
HIC2028	Art and Archaeology in Post-Colonial Nations	15	No
HIC2007	Apocalyptic Narratives: Disaster Writing	15	No
HUC2001	Humanities in the Workplace (Penryn)	15	No

Stage 3

120 credits of compulsory modules

For your year abroad you will agree a suite of modules in your host institution with the Faculty Study Abroad Coordinator. Details of individual modules that may be taken whilst abroad can be found by accessing the partner institution’s factfile at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/international/abroad/where/ and navigating to the “Course Requirements” section of that factfile where a link to the modules on offer in the partner institution is displayed.

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HAS3999	Study Abroad (HASS)	120	Yes

Stage 4

30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HIC3040	General Third Year Dissertation	30	No

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
HIC Final Stage History Option Modules 2024-5
HIC3004	Hippies: The US Counterculture of the 1960s	30	No
HUC3045	Myth in the Modern World: From the Classics to Conspiracies	30	No
HIC3009	Pacific Histories: Environment, People and Politics	30	No
HIC3300	Britain and the Telecommunications Revolution	30	No
HUC3048	Writing Nature	30	No
HIC3008	New American Century: History, Culture, and Crisis	30	No
HUC3016	Irish Stories: History, Politics, Literature and Heritage	30	No

6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:	Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...
...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):	...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of core subject areas in History, and a specialised knowledge in certain areas. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the philosophical problems confronting historians 3. Demonstrate an awareness of approaches taken to historical research; evaluate the professionalism and scholarly value of historical texts; evaluate the reasons for changes in historiographical approaches. 4. Use different types of historical sources; evaluate different and complex types of historical source; use primary sources in a professional manner. 5. Demonstrate an appreciation of the recurring themes in history, tracing the key developments within a topic and relating them to an overall conception of the subject matter 6. Define a suitable research topic and pursue it to completion	ILOs 1-5 are developed in stages 1 and 2 of the programme through lectures and seminars. Specialisation is developed in the final stage in small-group teaching. ILO 6 is developed in the Research Methods Project and the Dissertation. In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.	ILOs 1-5 are assessed by a combination of written examinations, continuous assessment essays and other written assignments, oral presentations and group project work. ILO 6 is assessed by project work and the dissertation. In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...

...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):

...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:

1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of core subject areas in History, and a specialised knowledge in certain areas.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the philosophical problems confronting historians
3. Demonstrate an awareness of approaches taken to historical research; evaluate the professionalism and scholarly value of historical texts; evaluate the reasons for changes in historiographical approaches.
4. Use different types of historical sources; evaluate different and complex types of historical source; use primary sources in a professional manner.
5. Demonstrate an appreciation of the recurring themes in history, tracing the key developments within a topic and relating them to an overall conception of the subject matter
6. Define a suitable research topic and pursue it to completion

ILOs 1-5 are developed in stages 1 and 2 of the programme through lectures and seminars. Specialisation is developed in the final stage in small-group teaching.

ILO 6 is developed in the Research Methods Project and the Dissertation.

In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.

ILOs 1-5 are assessed by a combination of written examinations, continuous assessment essays and other written assignments, oral presentations and group project work.

ILO 6 is assessed by project work and the dissertation.

In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:	Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...
...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):	...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:
7. Answer questions concisely and persuasively both orally and in writing. 8. Evaluate critically theoretical models and competing views. 9. Demonstrate an awareness of the basic philosophical questions arising from academic research. 10. Comprehend complex terminology and discourses, and deploy such terminology in a comprehensible manner. 11. Plan, execute and present an extended piece of original research	ILOs 7-8 form the backbone of all modules taken at all stages, but the level of complexity develops according to stage. ILOs 9-10 are developed throughout the programme in lectures, seminars and continuous assessment. You are encouraged to use the stage 2 Project as a way of addressing ILO 11 and concentrate on doing so in the final stage Dissertation. In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.	These skills are assessed through a combination of term-time essays and other assignments, oral presentations, project and dissertation work, and examinations. The criteria of assessment pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined. In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...

...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):

...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:

7. Answer questions concisely and persuasively both orally and in writing.
8. Evaluate critically theoretical models and competing views.
9. Demonstrate an awareness of the basic philosophical questions arising from academic research.
10. Comprehend complex terminology and discourses, and deploy such terminology in a comprehensible manner.
11. Plan, execute and present an extended piece of original research

ILOs 7-8 form the backbone of all modules taken at all stages, but the level of complexity develops according to stage.

ILOs 9-10 are developed throughout the programme in lectures, seminars and continuous assessment.

You are encouraged to use the stage 2 Project as a way of addressing ILO 11 and concentrate on doing so in the final stage Dissertation.

In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.

These skills are assessed through a combination of term-time essays and other assignments, oral presentations, project and dissertation work, and examinations. The criteria of assessment pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined.

In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:	Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...
...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):	...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:
12. Demonstrate critical, creative and independent thinking. 13. Demonstrate confidence and flexibility in identifying and solving complex problems. 14. Demonstrate proficient use of electronic information retrieval and management tools, and access information from a variety of sources. 15. Demonstrate effective interaction within a group. 16. Demonstrate effective self-management (autonomy, time management, self-motivation, self-reflection, seeking and using feedback, personal responsibility, self-criticism).	ILOs 12-14 are developed through the processes of acquiring subject knowledge and core academic skills (see A and B above). ILO 15 is developed through group work in parts of the syllabus and more generally in group discussions in academic seminars. ILO 16 is developed by student progression through a learning and teaching programme that is gradually more self-managed and the personal tutor and Personal Development Planning systems. Independent study forms a major part of our learning and teaching programme, most notably in the stage 2 project and the final stage In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.	ILOs 12-14 are assessed primarily through summative and formative essays and other written assignments, assessed presentations, project work, the dissertation and examinations. ILO 15 is assessed directly in the History Foundation and final stage modules in assessed presentations. ILOs 15-16 are assessed indirectly throughout the programme, in that where modules require the development of these skills, it would be very difficult to achieve a good mark in the assessments without having developed such skills. In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
On successfully completing this programme you will be able to:

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be...

...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class):

...and evidenced by the following assessment methods:

12. Demonstrate critical, creative and independent thinking.
13. Demonstrate confidence and flexibility in identifying and solving complex problems.
14. Demonstrate proficient use of electronic information retrieval and management tools, and access information from a variety of sources.
15. Demonstrate effective interaction within a group.
16. Demonstrate effective self-management (autonomy, time management, self-motivation, self-reflection, seeking and using feedback, personal responsibility, self-criticism).

ILOs 12-14 are developed through the processes of acquiring subject knowledge and core academic skills (see A and B above).

ILO 15 is developed through group work in parts of the syllabus and more generally in group discussions in academic seminars.

ILO 16 is developed by student progression through a learning and teaching programme that is gradually more self-managed and the personal tutor and Personal Development Planning systems. Independent study forms a major part of our learning and teaching programme, most notably in the stage 2 project and the final stage

In the study abroad year, the teaching and learning activities will be those used by the host university.

ILOs 12-14 are assessed primarily through summative and formative essays and other written assignments, assessed presentations, project work, the dissertation and examinations.

ILO 15 is assessed directly in the History Foundation and final stage modules in assessed presentations.

ILOs 15-16 are assessed indirectly throughout the programme, in that where modules require the development of these skills, it would be very difficult to achieve a good mark in the assessments without having developed such skills.

In the study abroad year, the assessment methods will be those used by the host university.

7. Programme Regulations

Programme-specific Progression Rules

To progress to Stage 2 you must achieve an average mark of at least 60% in Stage 1, otherwise you will be required to transfer to the three-year programme. This is to ensure that only those students who are likely to succeed in their Year Abroad are selected.

The Year Abroad counts as a single 120 credit module and is not condonable; you must pass this module to graduate with the degree title of BA History with Study Abroad. If you fail the Year Abroad module your degree title will be commuted to BA History. You will be assessed by your host university during your academic year abroad with their grades converted back to Exeter grades to contribute towards your degree classification. The rules governing failure and referral will be determined by the host institution.

Classification

Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.

8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning

You will have an academic personal tutor for your entire programme of study who is available at advertised ‘office and feedback hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.

The Faculty complies with the Code of Practice on Study and Work Experience Abroad. The name of the member of staff acting as the programme’s co-ordinator for study abroad is made known to you before you leave Exeter, and this person is responsible for liaison and oversight of your progress during the year abroad. Contact will be maintained with you during your year abroad by regular email communication.

9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning

Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.

10. Admissions Criteria

Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.

Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.

Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.

11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards

Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.

The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.

(Quality Review Framework.

14. Awarding Institution

University of Exeter

15. Lead College / Teaching Institution

Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)

16. Partner College / Institution

Partner College(s)

Not applicable to this programme

Partner Institution

Not applicable to this programme.

17. Programme Accredited / Validated by

18. Final Award

BA (Hons) History with Study Abroad

19. UCAS Code

V104

20. NQF Level of Final Award

6 (Honours)

21. Credit

CATS credits		ECTS credits

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

[Honours] History

23. Dates

Origin Date	01/10/2009	Date of last revision	25/07/2022

Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year

BA (Hons) History with Study Abroad

1. Programme Details

2. Description of the Programme

3. Educational Aims of the Programme

4. Programme Structure

5. Programme Modules

Stage 1

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

Stage 2

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

Stage 3

Compulsory Modules

Stage 4

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

Intended Learning Outcomes A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge

7. Programme Regulations

8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning

9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning

10. Admissions Criteria

11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards

14. Awarding Institution

15. Lead College / Teaching Institution

16. Partner College / Institution

Partner College(s)

Partner Institution

17. Programme Accredited / Validated by

18. Final Award

19. UCAS Code

20. NQF Level of Final Award

21. Credit

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

23. Dates

Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge