History with Politics
Goldsmiths, University of London
UCAS Code: LV21 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Goldsmiths, University of London
UCAS Code: LV21 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
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Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject specific modules
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
With three Higher Level subjects at 655
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
Scottish Higher
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About this course
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**Why study BA History with Politics at Goldsmiths**
**This programme is an innovative and interdisciplinary exploration into how social, cultural, and political institutions, decisions, and events have shaped societies and nations around the world.**
- Rather than focusing on chronology or strictly demarcated historical periods, combining history and politics encourages and facilitates explorations and analyses of key issues, controversies, themes, and debates.
- The study, analysis and understanding of the past is as important today as it has ever been.
- Understanding past societies fosters emotional intelligence and allows us to appreciate the diversity and adaptability of human life.
- Understanding our pasts can help us to shape our futures and, crucially, help us shape those futures intelligently, insightfully, fairly, and with compassion, contributing towards equality, diversity and social justice.
- Our innovative approaches to the study of politics, peel back the formal veneer of political parties and institutions to reveal the major ideological, economic, social, and cultural conflicts
- By exploring politics in this in-depth manner, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of our world.
- We cross boundaries between the traditional and the more radical understandings of political phenomena.
- Politics is much more than simply what happens in parliaments, it pervades the whole of society, domestically and internationally.
Modules
Year 1
In your first year, you'll take the following compulsory modules:
Global Connections
Reading and Writing History
Historical Controversies
Power, Emotions and Environment
Identity, Agency & Environment 1 & 2
Year 2
Your second year will give you the chance to broaden your intellectual horizons, and have more freedom over what you study.
You will take these compulsory modules:
The Goldsmiths Elective
The Goldsmiths Project
You'll also choose 60 credits from the list offered by the History department, up to 30 credits of which can be a University of London intercollegiate group II module and another 30 can be in another Goldsmiths discipline.
An additional 30 credits will be from a list provided annually by the Department of Politics and International Relations.
Year 3
In your final year, you will develop your specialist interests and knowledge.
You will take the following compulsory module:
Special subject module from a list of University of London intercollegiate Group III module
You will also complete a dissertation worth 30 credits relating to your special subject.
You will also choose 45 credits of optional modules offered by the Department of Politics and 15 credits offered by the Department of History.
Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of the modules may be available every year.
Assessment methods
A wide and innovative variety of methods are used to assess learning, these include essays, reviews, source analyses, blogs, videos, walks, presentations, exams, and dissertations. Some modules are assessed by portfolios of coursework, or by a combination of coursework and an examination. Others are assessed by long essays or dissertations on topics approved with the tutor. Assessments vary in length according to the type of assessment and/or level of module.
The Uni
Goldsmiths, University of London
History
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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.
Politics
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
The numbers of people taking politics degrees fell sharply last year and we'll keep an eye on this one - it can't really be because of graduates getting poor outcomes as politics grads do about as well as graduates on average. Most politics or international relations graduates don't actually go into politics - although many do, as activists, fundraisers and researchers. Jobs in local and central government are also important. Other popular jobs include marketing and PR, youth and community work, finance roles, HR and academic research (you usually need a postgraduate degree to get into research). Because so many graduates get jobs in the civil service, a lot of graduates find themselves in London after graduating. Politics is a very popular postgraduate subject, and so about one in five politics graduates go on to take another course - usually a one-year Masters - after they finish their degrees.
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Politics
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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