The first year of your History degree at Lancaster will have three components:
- A core module, ‘From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians’
- A choice of shorter, optional History modules
- The opportunity to study a subject in another department
The Core Module
Our core module, ‘From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians’ is taught by a group of our lecturers whose research interests range from Ancient to Contemporary History. This module gives you the opportunity to meet our academics and study a broad variety of topics, often including subjects relating to the histories of Britain, Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. You'll get a taste of the Histories that you can choose to study in greater depth in your second and third years.
Optional Courses
Our first-year historians can choose from a set of optional first-year modules. These specialised modules include ‘The Fall of Rome’ and ‘Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World’.
Another Subject
Finally, you choose a subject in another department. Again, we encourage our students to be bold and try new disciplines that they have not previously encountered.
You could choose a course in Philosophy, Film Studies or Psychology, or use the flexibility of the degree structure to learn a new language or improve your language skills. Some of our students start Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish or German from scratch, or pursue advanced study of French, German or Spanish.
