History with Education Studies
De Montfort University
UCAS Code: V125 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
UCAS Code: V125 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
112 UCAS points from at least 2 A Levels or equivalent
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
Combine your study of History with education modules, enhancing your employability across two dynamic disciplines. You'll explore modern and contemporary history through an innovative, globally focused curriculum that covers European and non-European histories. Dive into topics such as colonialism, immigration, decolonisation, gender, ethnicity, and conflict, gaining a deeper understanding of our globalised world.
In parallel, you'll engage with education, childhood, and lifelong learning, discussing and debating educational structures, policies, and practices. This course sharpens your ability to critically analyse and communicate complex information. As you advance, you’ll deepen your historical interests and be challenged by expert academics in a dynamic learning environment that combines varied teaching and assessment methods.
Discover British, South Asian, European, African, and American histories while exploring specialist topics like the history of photography and sport. You'll also analyse perspectives on education and special educational needs. Gain access to DMU’s rich historical collections, including the Stephen Lawrence Papers and the Kodak collection at Kimberlin Library, to enrich your learning experience.
- Combine History and Education to enhance your employability and prepare for diverse career paths across two dynamic disciplines.
- Gain hands-on experience through placements and internships at sites like the King Richard III visitor centre, regional newspapers, and teaching opportunities abroad.
- Explore global perspectives on modern and contemporary history, with access to exclusive archives, museums, and DMU’s unique historical collections at the Kimberlin Library.
- Develop critical and analytical skills through the study of historical sources and historiography, equipping you for postgraduate study or careers in various sectors.
- Benefit from inclusive learning designed to support all learners, ensuring a supportive and diverse educational environment.
Modules
**Year 1**
Block 1: Modern Britain since 1800
Block 2: Journeys and Places
Block 3: Childhood, Social Justice and Education
Block 4: Ideology, War and Society in the Twentieth Century
**Year 2**
Block 1: Global Cold War
Block 2: Exploring Work and Society
Block 3: Understanding Learning and Wellbeing
Block 3: Music in the Life of the Primary School
Block 3: Cultural and Technological Transformations
Block 4: Investigating the Past: Theory and Method
**Year 3**
Block 1: Special subject
Block 2: Empire and its Aftermath
Block 3: Reflection on Practice: Teaching and Learning
Block 3: Gender and Education
Block 3: Curriculum Design and Co-Creation
Block 4: Dissertation
Assessment methods
You deserve a positive teaching and learning experience, where you feel part of a supportive and nurturing community. That’s why most students will enjoy an innovative approach to learning using block teaching, where you will study one module at a time. You’ll benefit from regular assessments – rather than lots of exams at the end of the year – and a simple timetable that allows you to engage with your subject and enjoy other aspects of university life such as sports, societies, meeting friends and discovering your new city.
**Overview**
Our teaching is interactive and enjoyable. We encourage you to develop your own thoughts, ideas and viewpoints and you will build the skills you need to be effective in both historical study and the modern workplace.
Our modules are all designed to improve your skills as an effective historian from analysis and research to reasoning and evaluation. They are also constructed to help you develop aptitudes and characteristics that will improve your employability for a wide range of careers.
You will be taught by experts in their field and our history staff are renowned nationally and internationally for the quality of their teaching and research.
Education Studies programme enhances personal development and depth of thought. We believe in creative and collaborative approaches to evidence-based teaching and learning. The programme will empower students to see their own career path in education environments as individual, ongoing, multi-faceted and with many routes.
There is a varied mix of assessment including: work in pairs and in groups, primary source analysis, presentations, portfolios, podcasts and/or videos, essay writing, exams, and individual project work culminating in a dissertation. The assessments are designed to build on each other as you progress in your studies, and you will have opportunities to receive feedback on your work throughout. With a variety of different assessment methods, you can build on your individual strengths as well as develop a range of skills in creativity, project management, teamwork, verbal communication, writing for a variety of audiences and the use of different technologies.
**Contact hours**
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, workshops, group work, and self-directed study. You will normally attend around 9 hours of timetabled taught sessions each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 28 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.
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After graduation
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Top job areas of graduates
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
Education
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
When you look at employment stats, bear in mind that a lot of students are already working in education when they take this type of course and are studying to help their career development. This means they already have jobs when they start their course, and a lot of graduates continue to study, whilst working, when they complete their courses. If your course is focused on nursery or early years education, a lot of these graduates go into nursery work or classroom or education assistant jobs; these jobs are not currently classed as 'graduate level' in the stats (although they may well be in the future as classifications catch up with changes in the way we work), and many graduates who enter these roles say that a degree was necessary.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
History
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£28k
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Education
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£14k
£19k
£22k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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