History

Course summary

History gives you lots of transferable skills such as research, analysis of source material, communication, debate, presentation of ideas and the ability to prove/ disprove theories. This course is also regarded as a facilitating subject by top universities, and is the ideal subject to study if you are thinking of going into journalism, broadcasting, law, politics, management, teaching and media. The course is centred around four components: Paper 1: Russia, 1917–91: from Lenin to Yeltsin Paper 2: The German Democratic Republic, 1949–90 Paper 3: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780-1928