History/Politics

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Glasgow offers a wide-ranging programme from medieval to modern times and across the globe. Our teaching draws on research expertise in Scottish, British, European, US and global history; slavery studies; gender history; and war, intelligence and genocide studies. The History programme is designed to prepare you for a range of careers by developing valuable skills in critical thinking, analysis, interpretation and communication through the study of the human past.

We provide small-group teaching, a variety of assessments (including real-world tasks like policy papers and museum displays) and one-to-one feedback tutorials. We host leading research centres in gender history, war studies, slavery studies, American studies and Scottish & Celtic studies. Broad thematic courses in years 1 and 2 provide a framework for closer study of sources and topics in years 3 and 4.