History with a Year Abroad
History is one of the oldest and most enduring of academic disciplines, yet it remains one of the most relevant to understanding the world we live in now. It asks how human societies have been organised, what forces have shaped political orders and economic systems, how cultures have been formed and contested, and how the past continues to bear on the present. Whether you are decoding the symbolic meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry, examining the material culture of Tudor England, or tracing the social and political power of jazz in twentieth-century America, history develops in you the capacity to ask searching questions of the evidence and to communicate your answers with clarity and persuasiveness.
At the University of East Anglia, this BA in History with a Year Abroad allows you to spend your third year studying at one of the university's partner institutions across the globe, adding an international dimension to your historical education that deepens your comparative perspective and broadens your academic experience. You will study the political, social, economic and cultural forces that have shaped the world across periods from the Roman Empire to the recent past, developing the close reading, archival research and analytical writing skills that are central to the historian's craft.
History graduates are valued across a wide range of careers, in part because the discipline develops a set of transferable intellectual skills, critical thinking, research, the construction of evidence-based arguments and clear written communication, that are applicable in many professional contexts. Journalism, law, the civil service, education, publishing, heritage, archiving, the charitable sector and the financial and professional services industries all recruit history graduates. Many graduates pursue postgraduate study in history, archival studies, law, journalism or political science.
The year abroad experience adds a further dimension to your profile that is valued by international employers and graduate programmes alike.