Department of History

Choosing History at UWE

As you can see from this website, the campus environment is attractive, the student facilities are good, there is a brand new library and expanding computer facilities, the university itself is a very large and diverse institution and Bristol is an exciting place to live and study.

Teaching quality and commitment

Our last external peer review of History at UWE by the Teaching Quality Agency reported that 'many aspects of the History provision' were 'excellent': noting in particular the high quality of the staff and the course material, the commitment to IT and to the recruitment of 'non-traditional' students and students from the Bristol region. More...

Value added

A third of our single and joint honours History students graduating in 2002 achieved a better degree class that would be expected, based on their A Level results.

Choice

We offer a range of modules from which you can construct a degree package that suits your own needs.

As a single honours student you can take modules that will enable you to concentrate on a period, a geographical area or a type of history. However, you need not specialise in this way at all. You can take modules from any and every period and even take modules outside the subject area of History.

As a joint honours student , you can combine history with an enormous range of other subjects, including Politics, International Relations, English, Law, Psychology, Film Studies, Media and Cultural Studies Sociology and Geography.

Flexibility

If you enrol as a single honours student, you may, if you wish, transfer to a joint honours degree at the end of your Level 1 (first year) work. Similarly, if you enrol as a joint honours student, you may transfer to single honours History once you've successfully completed your Level 1 work. The choice is yours. You choose the type of degree you want.

International Applicants

The Department of History welcomes international students. More...

Study abroad

All or part of your second year can be spent studying in Finland, Hungary, Sweden,Italy, Poland, Latvia, France, Germany, and Spain. More...

Employment prospects

Studying History at undergraduate level will enable you to acquire a range of personal and transferable skills which are highly valued by employers. The discipline conveys skills in logical reasoning and in researching, interpreting and presenting data. Our History graduates can also demonstrate competence in oral presentation. Across the field, history graduates typically take two to three years to find their dream job, but the rewards can be significant. Recent graduates in History at UWE have entered a wide range of professions in both public and private sectors, including the health service, legal services, local and central government, publishing, journalism, teaching and lecturing, the armed services, retailing, transport, marketing, leisure and tourism, financial services, archive and museum work.