Programme Specification for the 2025/6 academic year
BA (Hons) History and Business with Employment Experience Abroad
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) History and Business with Employment Experience Abroad | Programme code | UFA4HPSSBECC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Part Time |
Academic year | 2025/6 |
| Campus(es) | Cornwall Campus |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
This degree programme brings together a historical focus to a range of issues and challenges facing societies today with a range of skills and knowledge for the modern business world. It equips you with the critical skills required in both History and Business Studies to understand the power of the past in shaping the present and the range of organizational, economic, and institutional forms that impact our lives today. Studying History and Business together will give you a better understanding modern issues such as globalization; ethnic conflict; organizational models and behaviours; migration and displacement; scientific and technological change; the climate and environmental crisis; and sustainable approaches. You will study the forces of state-building, empire, modernity, colonialism, racism and capitalism over time and across geographical space as well as thinking about what might constitute responsible business activity in the future. You will investigate patterns of continuity as well as change and how these can impact all aspects of social and work life. Not only will you become confident in analysing and challenging traditional theories and assumptions, you will also develop critical skills in archival research, interpretation, global connectivity, management and entrepreneurial activity, and economic challenges of the future.
As with all our degrees, research is integral to our work as a department and members of staff are nationally and internationally recognized for the intellectual contributions, research activities and publications they have made in their fields. Our historical expertise is concentrated in the modern period, from the sixteenth century to the present day, incorporating social and cultural history, political and intellectual history, local and global histories across a range of geographical areas, including the Far and Middle East, Europe, Ireland and Britain and the Americas. You will benefit from world-class research-led teaching and will join a close-knit community of scholars and students.
Both History and Business will involve practical skills and engagement with real world applications of what you learn. Employability skills are embedded in the degree, with opportunities to study and work within public history and heritage organizations or gain experience within the private sector. Flexibility is central to the degree, meaning you can pursue your own interests through a range of elective modules offering a range of different types of pedagogical and practical experience.
This Employment Experience Abroad variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken outside of the United Kingdom directly into your programme of study, to reflect critically upon these experiences, and for them to count towards the assessment of your degree. There is no better way to gain valuable employment experience that can be rewarded and recognised clearly by future employers. With preparation, support and approval from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences including in foreign languages if required, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career. This variant of the programme also provides a great way to demonstrate to employers your adaptability, cultural awareness, independence and resourcefulness. Experiencing the differences and similarities of education and people in another culture will increase your confidence and broaden the ways in which you see and relate tothe world and the world of work.
You are required to find your own placement with suitable employers and organisations with preparation and support from the Faculty. Students taking this variant must participate in the pre-departure briefing sessions for students taking placements.
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
This programme is intended to help you develop your research and analytical skills required in History and Business through a structured framework of study.
The programme further aims to:
- Offer you an excellent Honours-level education in History and Business
- Introduce you to a wide range of historical problems and the main analytical and critical approaches of the discipline.
- Cover all core aspects of business, as well as the relationship between business and society, sustainable business practices and the role of technology in business.
- Incorporate extensive work placements allowing you to build a portfolio of proven work experience and practical as well as transferrable skills, from project management through to business consultancy in both the private and third sectors.
- Produce graduates who can engage imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing complex and sophisticated problems in both disciplines by critical approaches that blend detailed and broad levels of analysis.
- Develop independent critical thinking and judgement.
- Foster a range of academic and personal skills necessary for further study or employment after your degree.
- Incorporate an employment placement into your programme
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 must ensure you complete a minimum of 150 credits in each discipline across the programme, with a minimum of 30 credits in each at Stage 4.
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.
Stage 1
90 credits of compulsory modules, 60 credits from Business and 30 credits from History, 0 credit compulsory placement year preparation module. Students must pick the 30 remaining credits from History option modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIC1602 | Crafts of Research and Writing | 15 | No |
| HIC1604 | New Approaches to History | 15 | No |
| BEP1010 | Business and Society | 15 | No |
| BEP1100 | Understanding Work and Organisations | 15 | No |
| BEP1080 | Theory and Practice of Management | 15 | No |
| BEP1040 | Marketing in a Digital Age | 15 | No |
| HAP1906 | Preparing for Placements 1 | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| History & Business Stage 1 option modules 2025-6 | |||
| HIC1007 | People's History: Sources and Skills | 15 | No |
| HIC1010 | Foundations of Environmental Humanities | 15 | No |
| HIC1605 | European History: Politics and Society | 15 | No |
| HIC1610 | An Introduction to Histories of Science and the Environment | 15 | No |
| HIC1611 | Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations | 15 | No |
| HIC1603 | Public History | 15 | No |
| HUM1005 | Climate Emergency - An Introduction to Environmental Humanities | 15 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules, 0 credit compulsory placement year preparation module.
Students must pick 60 credits of optional modules from Business and 30 credits of optional modules from History
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIC2039 | The Practice of History | 30 | No |
| HAP2906 | Preparing for Placements 2 | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| History & Business Stage 2 option modules 2025-6 | |||
| BEP2040 | Strategic Concepts for Business | 15 | No |
| BEP2120 | Digital Technologies and the Future of Work | 15 | No |
| BEP2210 | Circular Enterprise Economy | 15 | No |
| BEP2300 | History of Black Entrepreneurship | 15 | No |
| HIC2007 | Apocalyptic Narratives: Disaster Writing | 15 | No |
| HIC2009 | Ecology and Empire | 15 | No |
| HIC2028 | Art and Archaeology in Post-Colonial Nations | 15 | No |
| HIC2029 | Histories of Everyday Life in Modern Cornwall | 15 | No |
| HIC2038 | Caribbean Histories: Colonialism, Resistance and Environmental Crisis | 15 | No |
| HIC2324 | Organised Crime in USA | 15 | No |
| HUC2001 | Humanities in the Workplace (Penryn) | 15 | No |
| HUC2013 | Enlightenment and the Age of Reason: Philosophy, Politics, Society | 15 | No |
| HUC2015 | Revolution and Abolition: History and Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade | 15 | No |
| BEP2001 | Business Beyond Profit | 15 | No |
| HAP2001 | Elements of Environmental Humanities | 30 | No |
| HIC2338 | Germany 1500-Present: Cultural and Political Histories | 15 | No |
| HIC2040 | Stolen Histories: Colonialism, Looting, and the Illicit Trade of Cultural Heritage | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credit compulsory placement year module
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAP3906 | Work Placement Year | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules - a minimum of 30 credits in each subject, and a maximum of 60 in either.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAP3000 | Dissertation | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| History & Business Final Stage option modules 2025-6 | |||
| BEP3010 | Social and Technological Innovation | 15 | No |
| BEP3011 | Business and Climate Change | 15 | No |
| BEP3030 | Globalisation and Internationalisation | 15 | No |
| BEP3040 | Local-Global Innovation (Cornwall Research Seminar Series) | 15 | No |
| BEP3070 | Crisis: Change and Creativity in Organisations | 15 | No |
| HIC3004 | Hippies: The US Counterculture of the 1960s | 30 | No |
| HIC3010 | Pacific Histories: Environment, People and Politics | 30 | No |
| HUC3016 | Irish Stories: History, Politics, Literature and Heritage | 30 | No |
| HUC3045 | Myth in the Modern World: From the Classics to Conspiracies | 30 | No |
| HUC3048 | Writing Nature | 30 | No |
| HIC3006 | Indigenous Heritage and Belief | 30 | No |
| HIC3310 | Regionalism, Localism and Ideas of Home in Modern European History | 30 | No |
| HIC3316 | The Environment and Everyday Life in Modern Britain | 30 | No |
| HAP3002 | Mapping and the Environmental Imagination | 15 | No |
| HAP3001 | Environmental Humanities: Futures | 15 | 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. Identify History and Business as linked fields. | ILOs 1-6 will be developed through lectures, seminars, workshops, student study groups and field work. The degree of knowledge and competency in handling the themes and issues of History and Business study will increase over the course of the programme, culminating in the fourth year Dissertation or Placement modules. Optional modules at second and fourth year most closely relate to staff research specialisms. Teaching methods vary according to each module. Some modules will be team-taught, others will be taught by individual staff. Your learning is further developed through engagement with assessments, following guidance from tutors and lecturers and through feedback on work submitted. ILOs 1 – 7 are introduced in the core modules across the two disciplines at first year | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, participation diaries, log-books, web-based assessments, creative portfolios, essays, reports, research projects, and the final year dissertation or placement. |
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: | |
8. Apply critical skills in the close, detailed analysis of textual and visual material. | These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules, in lectures, reading groups, workshops, fieldwork and seminars. They are further developed in independent study, written work, and oral work (both in presentation, seminar discussion and field work activities), and reinforced through the range of core and optional modules across all stages. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, participation diaries, log-books, web-based assessments, creative portfolios, essays, reports, research projects, and the final year dissertation or placement.
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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: | |
14. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is maintained throughout the four year programme. through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, creative portfolio work, web-based assessments, essays, field work and projects, group work and final year dissertation or placement. |
7. Programme Regulations
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.
Other useful information and student resources can be accessed via the Exeter Learning Environment (ELE): http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/login/index.php which has specific information on library skills, essay writing and research skills.
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.
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
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) History and Business with Employment Experience Abroad
19. UCAS Code
Not applicable to this programme.
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] History
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 25/07/2022 |
Date of last revision | 22/05/2025 |
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