History BA (Hons)

**Fascinated by the past? Want to make a difference in the present? Develop practical and professional skills with our applied History degree.**<br/><br/><br/>- Develop practical and professional skills and apply them to contemporary challenges, issues and debates.<br/><br/><br/>- Use your understanding of evidence and your ability to analyse information to solve problems and challenge convention.<br/><br/><br/>- Explore the next stage in your career - our graduates have gone on to work with leading employers in a wide range of different roles.<br/><br/><br/> Apply your knowledge of History to contemporary challenges, issues and debates. Our innovative History degree has been designed to enable you to acquire specialised subject knowledge alongisde practical and professional skills.<br/><br/><br/>Our History course is inspiring, innovative and compelling. Our Newton Park campus is beautiful, but it’s also a historic resource in its own right and a way into a wide range of historical subjects and approaches – from reading a landscape to analysing the symbols of wealth and power and tracing their international connections.<br/><br/>The nearby cities of Bath and Bristol offer an extraordinary wealth of material for historical study. Bristol, after all, is where the statue of Edward Colston was toppled into the river, and made us all reflect on the ways history continues to shape the present; we need to understand where we’ve been to have a sense of where we might go next.<br/><br/>**Develop practical and professional skills**<br/><br/>Working collaboratively with a wide range of disciplines, we offer a unique approach to learning in and outside your subject.<br/><br/>You’ll become a confident communicator, able to sift through the raw materials of history and re-present your findings to any audience – on any platform. Yes, you’ll write essays. But you’ll also learn to podcast, tweet, blog, create scripts for film and radio, and adapt your style to suit a range of consumers, including young audiences. We also want you to be able to plan and initiate projects, work with your peers and with our external partners, and make a contribution to our wider community.<br/><br/>Our programmes are taught by people whose research embraces past and present, abstract concepts and physical structures. It crosses continents. Youll analyse big data and tiny fragments of text, and explore objects and images, the rhetoric of power, the gaps in the narrative. <br/><br/>**What can you do with a History degree?**<br/><br/>Our research has impact internationally, nationally and locally. Our teaching draws on this and on our work as policy advisors, trustees, fundraisers, advocates, curators, conservators, broadcasters, game designers, web editors, poets. Our graduates go on to do all of these things – and more.

Discover who you are with a course at Bath Spa University this September, in a beautiful and unique city.<br/>Bath Spa University offers a range of Clearing courses across Business and Law, Science, Design, Music, Computing and Performing Arts. Explore their career-focused degrees and get in touch today. Many of their degrees can be studied in combination, so you don’t have to limit yourself to one subject!<br/><br/>Their degrees offer practical, real-life experiences that build your skills through placements and trips. You'll be taught by knowledgeable and passionate educators who bring their industry expertise directly to you.<br/><br/>BSU offers a thriving community across two main campuses with industry standard facilities and a buzzing social scene. The Bath Spa SU offers over 70 clubs and societies for you to choose from to help you get settled in and find your people.<br/><br/>Bath Spa prioritise student well-being and provide plenty of support to make sure you can realise your full potential, including a range of 24/7, digital services. The Student Wellbeing Team will support you through whatever challenges you may face.<br/><br/>Discover more and get in touch today!