Program Overview

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Program Details:

History and Theology, Philosophy & Ethics with Foundation Year

Why Study This Course

This vibrant engagement with English Literature facilitates your independent choice of focus and topics.

Ranked 2nd in the UK for Teaching (NSS 2023), this course is a forward-thinking and issue-led program that offers you the opportunity to address and debate difficult and sometimes controversial moral, ethical, and philosophical issues of our time.

Excellent international travel opportunities, such as India and Rome, will help you boost your employability prospects.

Course Summary

While studying a History course at BGU, you will explore a range of fascinating topics spanning a number of historical eras, in a variety of local, national, and global contexts; from pirates in the early modern Atlantic World to civil rights campaigners in the 1960s.

This undergraduate degree will help to build your skills as a historian, from introductory subjects in your first year through to an independent, research-based dissertation in your final year.

Key Facts

Award	BA (Hons)
UCAS code	V2VF
Duration	4 years
Mode of study	Full time
Start date	September 2025
Award	Bishop Grosseteste University
Institution code	B38

What You Will Study

Compulsory Modules

People and Places: Researching Local and Regional History

• Develop your knowledge, understanding, and subject-specific skills related to local and regional history.
• Explore relevant research methods, including primary source analysis and digital information skills.
• Consider a range of perspectives and framings, such as the political, social, cultural, and economic.
• Engage with the historiography associated with local and regional histories.

A Better World is Possible: British protest movements

• Explore a range of protest movements from across the British Isles, setting them in their historical context and investigating their origins, scope, membership, activities, and outcomes.
• Develop an understanding of change and continuity in regard to methods of protest, organisational structures, and effectiveness.

The Dark Arts: A History of Magic, Witchcraft and Folklore

• Engage in a long view of the history of magic, witchcraft, and folklore.
• Examine evidence for the persistence of pagan and magical beliefs, as well as the development of folklore and fairy stories into the ‘modern’, ‘enlightened’ age.

Optional Modules

Women and Faiths 2: The East

• Cover a broad sweep of the last 2,000 years of major world religions’ attitudes towards and treatment of women, particularly in Eastern Religions and new religious movements.
• Explore the contributions to theology and spirituality of outstanding women, as well as the experiences of women who belong to these faiths.

Creative Destruction: The Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th centuries

• Engage in a wide-ranging study of the Atlantic World in the early modern period, with a particular focus on the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Analyse the political, economic, technological, social, and cultural history of the Atlantic World.

The Long Weekend: Britain between the wars

• Engage in an in-depth assessment of life in Britain during the twenty-year period between the First and Second World Wars.
• Examine the history of crime, justice, and punishment in Britain, from Dickensian visions of young offenders to 20th-century gangsters and moral panics.

Compulsory Modules (Final Year)

‘The Sun Never Set and the Blood Never Dried’: The British Empire in the 19th Century

• Undertake a wide-ranging critical study of British imperial development during the nineteenth century.
• Examine the impact of British political and military power, money, technology, and culture on the peoples, societies, and environments it came into contact with.

Crime and Punishment in Modern Britain, c. 1800 to the present

• Examine the history of crime in Britain from Dickensian visions of young offenders to 20th-century gangsters and moral panics.
• Explore the development of the modern police force and policing methods.

Cogito ergo Sum

• Examine the thought of central thinkers, theistic, agnostic, and atheistic, and the implications of their thought for religious questions.
• Evaluate the implications of their thought for religious questions.

Religion, War and Terrorism

• Explore the historical relationship between Religion and acts of political violence.
• Examine Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Buddhist, and Hindu responses to politics, violence, and the world.

Entry Requirements

• Application for this course is via UCAS, although there is no formal requirement for UCAS points to access the course (normally GCSE English or equivalent is desirable).
• As part of your application, you will have the opportunity to speak with a member of BGU Admissions staff to resolve any questions or queries you may have.

Academic Staff

• Dr. W. Jack Rhoden
• Professor Jack Cunningham
• Mark Plater
• Abigail Dor
• Alan Darley
• Dr. Hazel C Kent
• John Tomlinson
• Revd Dr. Peter Green
• Dr. Erik Grigg
• Dr. Alan Malpass
• Revd Canon Professor Leslie J Francis
• Dr. Darren Poole
• Dr. Derwin Gregory
• Dr. Tim Galsworthy

Assessment

• History assessments will accurately test key skills, knowledge, and understanding.
• The course will use a wide combination of different types of history assessment, including written essays, presentations (oral, digital, and practical), portfolio submissions, and assessed debates and one-to-one discussions.
• On our Theology courses, assessments will utilise your strengths and will include written assignments, paired and single presentations, research-based dissertations, files of work, and exams.

Careers & Further Study

History

• Studying History at BGU enhances your employability by focusing on highly desirable and transferable critical thinking and analytical skills, professional writing practices, and the art of constructing persuasive arguments.
• Possible future careers for History graduates include education in the schooling and heritage sectors, marketing, journalism and publishing, law and policing, public policy, information research and management, working as an archivist, librarian, or museum curator.

Theology, Philosophy & Ethics

• Graduates of this course are highly skilled individuals fully prepared to pursue a wide variety of careers in other fields, such as community work, counselling, policing, librarianship, social work, work in the third sector, politics, museum work, education officers attached to religious buildings or organisations, and media work.
• Possible future careers for Theology, Philosophy & Ethics graduates may include work as an RE teacher/primary specialist, theology lecturer, social or youth work, politics and policy planning, or museum work.

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