Program Overview

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History is the best way of 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.

History Degree highlights

History at Queen’s has been placed in the QS World University Rankings top 200 History departments in the world for 2019.

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Global Opportunities

The History programme offers students opportunities to travel and study at universities in Europe and North America. Short-term (two weeks) and longer-term (up to one academic year) exchanges are on offer.

Possible examples include:

• George Washington University (Washington DC, USA)

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• College of Charleston (South Carolina, USA)

• Institut d’Etudes Politques de Bordeaux (France)

• University of Oslo (Norway)

• Universiteit Utrecht (Netherlands)

• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)

Field trips may also be offered in particular years or as part of certain modules.

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Industry Links

Several modules include links with local collaborative partners, which provide students with opportunities to network with experts in the field or to gain experience of particular industries prior to graduation.

Internships have also been developed to allow students the opportunity to carry out work experience in history-related fields.

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Career Development

The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) confirmed that History at Queen’s is producing world-leading or internationally excellent research, placing Queen’s 21st out of 83 among the top UK history departments overall. The School hosts many research seminars, conferences and lectures, including the annual highlight of the Wiles lecture series.

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World Class Facilities

Top Ranking: History at Queen’s has been placed in the QS World University Rankings top 200 History departments in the world for 2019.

The School also boasts the following:

• The Centre for Public History

• The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

• Institute of Cognition and Culture

• Institute of Irish Studies

• Two International Summer Schools (the Irish Studies Summer School; and the Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Summer

School)

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Student Experience

History is the best way of understanding our world.

At Queen’s we have a wide-ranging curriculum, that attends to problems like racism traditionally neglected by British and Irish universities.

From year 1, you will be taught in small groups by real historians. You will not be one of 300 students in a lecture theatre, coming face-to-face only with PhD students.

Studying at Queen’s also means you play an active role in making your own curriculum; we trust you to move through our curriculum and make your own choices.

Queen's teaches History from the Ancient World to the present day, and across four continents. This depth and breadth is an unusual strength, and we trust our students to find their own way through this very wide range of histories.

The National Student Survey demonstrates that our students find both the History programme and university experience excellent. In 2019, History had an overall student satisfaction score of 91% in the 2019 National Student Survey.

Year after year, our history students tell the National Student Survey that they are more than 90% satisfied by their teaching.

“I was delighted to be awarded the Martin Lynn Memorial Prize for first year History at Queen’s. The course has enabled me explore and develop many new areas of history and I look forward to continuing my studies.”

Mark Jose

2nd Year, BA Single Honours History

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