History Visit Day Admission presentation slides. Humanities at the University of Southampton.

1. History at Southampton
Email: ugapply.fh@southampton.ac.uk
@HistoryAtSoton
History at the University of Southampton

2. Studying History with us
• Learn from expert tutors alongside other high-
achieving students
• We are a Russell Group university
• In the top three of History departments in the
UK for research
• Research by our academic staff is all world-
leading or of international quality
• We also pride ourselves on being friendly and
flexible

3. Year 1: Transitions and opportunities
Core modules:
• World Histories and World Ideologies
Cases and Contexts (a few examples):
• Roman Consuls and Emperors
• The First Crusade
• Apocalyptic Visions
• Histories of Empire
• Gandhi and Gandhism
• Henry VIII: Reputation and Reality
• The Crimean War
• The French Revolution
• Responses to the Holocaust
• The First World War
• America’s ‘War on Terror’
From the first year
onwards our modules
cover events and
themes from around
the globe, and from
the ancient to the
modern

4. Year 2: Teamwork and Options
Single-Honours History:
• The Group Project
Option modules (a few examples):
• Cleopatra’s Egypt
• Plague, Fire and Popish Plots
• Knights and Chivalry
• The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800
• Imperialism & Nationalism in British
India
• Wellington and Napoleon
• The World at War, 1931-1961
• Stalin and Stalinism
• Building London 1666 – 2012
• Jews in Germany before the Holocaust
• Nelson Mandela
• The Space Age
We study politics and
elites as well as
history from below -
‘giant leaps for
mankind’ as well as
day-to-day life

5. Year 3: Creativity and Comparison
Special Subject (a few examples):
The Third Reich; The Rise of Islam; The
Vietnam War; Slavery and Freedom; The
British Empire in Africa; Medieval Love,
Sex and Marriage; The Reformation;
Britain in the 1970s; The Holocaust
Alternative Histories (examples):
Cultures of Migration; Conquests; Music &
History; Alternative Sexualities;
Travellers’ Tales; The Bible; Medicine;
Food and Cooking; Private Memory &
Public History; History & Literature
Dissertation: your own supervised research
Our modules help you
to become a skilled
historian, able to
study topics in depth
and equipped to
understand the events
and processes that
have shaped our
world

6. Year 3: Creativity and Comparison
Special Subject (a few examples):
The Third Reich; The Rise of Islam; The
Vietnam War; Slavery and Freedom; The
British Empire in Africa; Medieval Love,
Sex and Marriage; The Reformation;
Britain in the 1970s; The Holocaust
Alternative Histories (examples):
Conquests; Cultures of Migration; Music &
History; Alternative Sexualities;
Travellers’ Tales; The Bible; Medicine;
Food and Cooking; Private Memory &
Public History; History & Literature
Dissertation: your own supervised research
Dr Charlotte Riley, is
one of the three tutors
teaching on the
Alternative ‘Conquests’
module, comparing
conquests from
medieval to modern
times.

7. Year 3: Creativity and Comparison
Special Subject (a few examples):
The Third Reich; The Rise of Islam; The
Vietnam War; Slavery and Freedom; The
British Empire in Africa; Medieval Love,
Sex and Marriage; The Reformation;
Britain in the 1970s; The Holocaust
Alternative Histories (examples):
Conquests; Cultures of Migration; Music &
History; Alternative Sexualities;
Travellers’ Tales; The Bible; Medicine;
Food and Cooking; Private Memory &
Public History; History & Literature
Dissertation: your own supervised research
Dr Rachel Herrmann is
part of the team
responsible for the
‘Food and Cooking’
Alternative module –
looking at how we are
(and have been) what
we eat.

8. How you’ll learn
• Lectures and seminars
• Coursework and exams
• One-to-one tutorials and drop-in
office hours
• Regular feedback
• We support you to become a
confident and independent learner,
ready to take on new challenges.
A few of the academic
members of staff in History
who teach on the course

9. 93%
History students
reporting that
Southampton ‘staff
have made the
subject interesting’
(Source: unistats.direct.gov.uk)

10. 94%
History students
reporting that
Southampton staff
‘are good at
explaining things’
(Source: unistats.direct.gov.uk)

11. Supporting our students
Our learning and research resources
include:
• The Hartley Library: largest university
library in the south of England with
over 1.5 million books
• Avenue Campus: teaching library and
computing facilities
• E-Learning and digitised reading
• Hartley Special Collections: a major
British archive containing collections
of international importance
The Hartley Library: home to some
of the resources you will use from
the very start of your degree

12. Flexibility, choice and adventure
Vary your curriculum:
• Major/Minor – giving you the
option to take five modules in a
different subject to create a degree
like ‘History with Criminology’
• Decide when you arrive
• More information:
www.southampton.ac.uk/majorminor
You may also take single modules
from outside History, including one of
our new Curriculum Innovation
Modules
Options to study abroad:
• Europe: Socrates/Erasmus schemes
• Canada: University of Western
Ontario
• Australia, Hong Kong, China, South
Korea, Japan, Latin America, USA

13. What next?
Advertising Account Executive - PR Assistant - Accountant - Festival
Coordinator - Credit Controller - Project Manager - Editorial Assistant -
Website Community Editor - Market Analyst - Marketing Officer -
Recruitment Consultant - Retail Manager - Archaeologist - TV Presenter -
Army Officer - Library Assistant - Museums Assistant - Auditor - Teacher
- Police Officer - Events Manager - Quantity Surveyor - Civil Servant - E-
Learning Facilitator - Risk Manager - TEFL Teacher - Journalist -
Management Consultant - Solicitor - Political Researcher
Arcadia - British Council – British Army - PricewaterhouseCoopers - Aker
Kvaerner - Imperial War Museum - Wessex Archaeology - Blackwells -
Government of Luxembourg - HM Revenue & Customs - Talkback Thames
- Hampshire County Council - Civil Service - IBM - Royal Air Force - Bank
of New York - Deloitte - Ernst & Young - Toyota - Microsoft - British
Council - J P Morgan - World Bank - Jaguar - Lego - BBC - British
Airways - Majestic Wine - Ernst & Young - House of Commons - Grant
Thornton - Scarborough Museums Trust - Welsh Assembly

14. Humanities’ Employability Module
 Identify the skills employers are looking for
 Help students develop plans for their future career
The Humanities Peer Mentoring
Scheme helps our students to make
the transition into University life.
Dr Eleanor Quince,
Humanities Director
of Employability, and
the Summer 2015
student intern team

15. • OPUS is an online portal that
enables students to:
o discover and navigate the
opportunities available to them:
http://opus.soton.ac.uk/
o filter the choices based on their
degree, interests, the skills they
would like to develop, or the
activities they want to pursue
OPUS, Careers Service & Excel Internships
Mission Employable works in
partnership with the University’s central
Careers service on the Module, our
External Advisory Board (employers
and alumni) & student-led activity:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/careers
Last year, the University’s Excel Internship programme helped over 400
students get paid work experience during vacations and term-time!

16. Questions?
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