History (Certificate of Higher Education), 2009/2010 entry (part-time study)

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Why study this course at Birkbeck:

• Gain a University of London qualification – expand your knowledge and enhance your CV.
• Covers a wide range of historical periods, themes and regions.
• Includes modules offered at London museums and historic sites, giving access to their rich collections.
• Can provide exemption from part of Birkbeck's BA History degree.

History informs us about the past and helps to make sense of the present. It is a gripping and accessible area of study, with wide appeal. We offer modules which explore periods from the ancient to the modern and which will help you to develop your understanding of a whole range of historical themes and topics.

This programme is designed to develop a clear sense of the process of change and the ways in which historians have interpreted surviving materials from different periods. You will examine periods and themes of history from ancient times to the present.

What will I be studying?

To gain the Certificate of Higher Education, you must successfully complete modules worth 120 CATS points from the following groups:

• Skills and the Study of History
• British and European History
• World History
• London History.

At least 15 CATS points must be taken from modules in the Skills and the Study of History group.

You may take modules worth a maximum of 30 CATS points from other award programmes – these modules are listed under the subheading 'Cross-Listed Modules'.

Full details of modules for this programme.

What can I go on to do?

Students who successfully complete the Certificate of Higher Education with the grade of Merit (60–69 per cent) or above can gain exemption, subject to interview, from the first year of Birkbeck's BA History.

Modules

Skills and the Study of History Modules

Heritage, Museums and Archives

Understanding Museums: Contemporary Issues in Heritage and Interpretation
For Ever, For Everyone: The National Trust Through its London Properties
Interpreting the Tower
Conserving the White Tower

Language, Skills and Method

Foundations of History: Theory and Method (Level 4)
Foundations of History: The History of History (Level 4)
Genealogy Research Skills: Beginners
Genealogy Research Skills: Intermediate
Latin for Beginners
Intermediate Latin
History and Language
Intermediate Palaeography
The Origins of English Language and Literature
Ancient Greek Language: Beginners
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Ancient Greek for Continuers

British and European History Modules

History of Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander
Myth, Magic, and Reason: Culture and Thought in Ancient Greece
Greeks and Barbarians: Heroes, Emperors and Kings
Rome: From Republic to Empire
’Good’ and ’Bad’ Emperors: The Twelve Caesars
The Age of Justinian
Medieval History c.400-1250
Anglo-Saxon England: The Development of a Nation
Study Trip: Medieval Rome
Medieval History c.1215-1500
Debating the Tudors and Stuarts: Cardinal, Courtiers, Kings and Cooks
Reformations and Revolutions: Tudor and Stuart Britain and the European Context
The Long Eighteenth Century: Hampton Court in British Society
Europe Transformed: 1700-1914
From Nation State to Empire: Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Twentieth-Century Europe: From Nationalism to the European Union
Dictatorships and Crisis in Europe, 1917-1949: A Political and Social History
The Holocaust: Propaganda, Experiences, Memory
Twentieth-Century Britain: Welfare, Wars and Recovery
’Survival’: Black British History and Culture 1945 to the Present
Exploring Wellcome Collection: A Social History of European Medicine
Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe

Cross-Listed Modules

Reading Pictures: Christian Art in Europe Before 1400
The English Country House
The Court Artist at Work, 1500-1640
Spanish Art and the Counter-Reformation
The Georgians in Europe: Continental Influences on Eighteenth-Century English Buildings and Cities
The Dawn of Modernism: Vienna and Paris around 1900
Exploring Wellcome Collection: A Social History of Madness in Europe

World History Modules

Byzantium and Its Neighbours
The Crusades
Expanding Horizons: Trade, Travel and Exploration 1300-1600
Colonial Encounters
India from the Sixteenth Century
Africa: From ’Discovery’ to ’Decolonisation’
Colonialism, Independence and Imperialism in Latin America
Revolution, Nationalism and Dictatorship: Twentieth-Century Latin America
History of the Book 1660-1850

London History Modules

The London History section of the Certificate of Higher Education in History is delivered under the auspices of the Raphael Samuel History Centre and in collaboration with the University of East London.
Roman and Saxon London
Anglo-Norman London
Everyday Life in Medieval London 1000-1500
London: The Making of a World City
Georgian London: The Emergence of a Metropolis
House and Home in Victorian London
London and Empire, 1750-1950
London in the Twentieth Century: War, Peace, Culture and Social Change
London at War: Film, Fiction and Archives
The Moving Metropolis: Transport and the Making of Modern London 1800-2020
Growing up in London: Social History of Childhood
The Peopling of London: Migration and the Making of the Modern City
London from the East: A Social History of the East End

Cross-Listed Modules

Discovering London’s Squares
Spaces of Protest

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