History & Philosophy
The programme provides students with an intellectual training in the disciplines of History and Philosophy, which are mutually enriching subjects.
| Award Name | Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | |
| Awarding Body | Queens University Belfast |
| NFQ Level |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 | Queens University Belfast |
Duration
3 years (Full Time)
Entry Requirements
Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3
Careers / Further progression
Career Prospects
Introduction
Studying for a degree in History and Politics at Queen’s will assist you in developing the core skills and employment-related experiences that are valued by employers, professional organisations and academic institutions. Graduates from this degree at Queen’s are well regarded by employers and over half of all graduate jobs are now open to graduates of any discipline, including History and Politics.
We regularly consult and develop links with a large number of employers, including NI government departments, who provide sponsorship for our internships.
Employment after the Course
Studying for a History degree at Queen‘s will assist students in developing the core skills and employment-related experiences that are valued by graduate employers. Our modules are designed to enhance skills such as research, workload planning and management, presentational expertise, fluent literacy, close analysis, and the synthesis of competing arguments or evidence.
Graduates in History from QUB pursue careers in areas such as:
• Marketing
• Journalism
• Broadcasting
• Research
• Heritage
• museum sector
• education
• the Civil Service
• banking
• accountancy
• public relations
• local government itself.
Employment Links
Studying for a degree in History and Politics at Queen’s will assist you in developing the core skills and employment-related experiences that are valued by employers, professional organisations and academic institutions. Graduates from this degree at Queen’s are well regarded by employers and over half of all graduate jobs are now open to graduates of any discipline, including History and Politics.
Professional Opportunities
The School offers a range of employment placements where students can gain real world work experience which is invaluable in terms of employment after graduation. Given that Belfast is a regional capital with devolved powers, we can offer students placements in the high profile political and related institutions on our doorstep – for example in the Department of Justice, Equality Commission, Police Ombudsman’s Office, or BBC Northern Ireland.
Further information
Start date: September 2024
Deadlines for on-time applications
2024 entry application deadlines
For courses starting in 2024 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.
16 October 2023 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.
31 January 2024 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.
Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/admissions-tests
Check course information in the search tool to see which deadline applies to you at the application weblink below.
Apply as soon as possible: Student funding arrangements mean that as offers are made and places fill up, some courses may only have vacancies for students from certain locations. It’s therefore really important that you apply for your chosen courses by the appropriate deadlines mentioned above, as not all courses will have places for all students.
All applications received after 30 June are entered into Clearing - find out more about Clearing at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/clearing-and-results-day/what-clearing
The programme provides students with an intellectual training in the disciplines of History and Philosophy, which are mutually enriching subjects. Its key premise is that understanding the present (and anticipating the future) requires the ability to study and interpret the past and to appreciate how the tools of historical inquiry and the insights of philosophical theory combine to illuminate human societies, including those of the contemporary world.
The study of Philosophy enables students to learn about cutting-edge debates on ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge and political philosophy, as well as studying some of the key thinkers in the history of philosophy, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Mill and Marx. The programme is designed to equip students with a range of skills which together foster the ability to practise self-motivated learning and increase the capacity to undertake independent learning in a progressive way.
History is vital to understanding the world around us. What is gender, race, class, religion, the state, empire, capitalism? What is the USA, China, the United Kingdom, Ireland? What is NATO and the EU? Our historians explain the modern world by reaching back to the Roman empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the great modern revolutions across all of Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. From their first year, we trust our students to make choices and range widely across all these histories to understand where we have come from. And from the beginning of your degree you will be taught in small groups by expert historians. Our range in time and space, our trust in you to explore and make good choices, and our small group teaching from the first year of the degree, mark us out among our peer universities.
The information below is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study (2023/24). Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year.
Year 1
Core Modules
Exploring History 1 (20 credits)
Exploring History 2 (20 credits)
Optional Modules
Philosophy and The Good Life (20 credits)
Perspectives on Politics (20 credits)
Revolutions (20 credits)
History and Historians: Contested Pasts (20 credits)
The Long Road to Black Lives Matter (20 credits)
A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
Philosophy and Human Nature (20 credits)
Introductory Logic (20 credits)
Year 2
Optional Modules
Modern Political Thought (20 credits)
History of Philosophy (20 credits)
Uniting Kingdoms (20 credits)
Recording History (20 credits)
The American South, 1865-1980 (20 credits)
The American South 1619-1865 (20 credits)
Europe between the Wars, 1919-1939 (20 credits)
Politics and Society in 20th Century Ireland (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present (20 credits)
Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World (20 credits)
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
Knowledge and Reality (20 credits)
Moral Theories (20 credits)
Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland (20 credits)
The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300 (20 credits)
The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present (20 credits)
The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne (20 credits)
Philosophy of Race (20 credits)
Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789 (20 credits)
Year 3
Optional Modules
Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration (20 credits)
Popular Culture in England 1500-1700 (20 credits)
The Ancient City (20 credits)
Contemporary Political Philosophy (20 credits)
Topics in Epistemology (20 credits)
The Origins of Protestantism (20 credits)
Surviving the Victorian city: poverty, welfare and public health in nineteenth-century Belfast (20 credits)
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (20 credits)
War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521 (20 credits)
The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire (20 credits)
Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa (20 credits)
Philosophy of Technology and Environment (20 credits)
Philosophical Theology (20 credits)
The Exceptional Origins of the American Republic (20 credits)
Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe (20 credits)
Wolf Children and Baby Boomers: The Family in European History 1945-1970s (20 credits)
Religion and Empire: Christian Missions ro Africa, Asia and Middle East (20 credits)
Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe (20 credits)
Dissertation (40 credits)
That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine (20 credits)
Philosophy for Children (20 credits)
The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921 (20 credits)
The Soviet Union 1921-1991 (20 credits)
The War of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (20 credits)
Twentieth-Century China (20 credits)
Dissertation (40 credits)
Admissions
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Email address: admissions@qub.ac.uk