Journalism and Contemporary History

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
Poplar, London
First Degree
3 Years
www.qmul.ac.uk
This degree is jointly taught by the Departments of History and Politics, and reflects the close links between the two Departments and their subject areas. It provides an opportunity to understand the modern world by studying the evolution of political ideas and institutions alongside the historical development of the major powers.

Course outline

Year 1
Historical Writing for Undergraduates
History options:
The Road from 1945: Be Since World War II
Europe Since 1890

Politics options: Introduction to Politics
International Relations since 1914
or
Comparative Government and Politics

Year 2
History options include:
Methods of History
Britain and Europe 1945-73
The Great War: British Experience, Literature and Myth
Left in Western Europe
Victorian Political Thought

Politics core course unit:
Modern Political Thought
Politics options include:
British Political System
Latin American Politics
The Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Nations, States and Nationalisms
The Politics of Post-Communist Europe

Year 3
History options:
History Research Dissertation
Kennedy Years
Cabinet and Premiership
Concepts of Europe
Politics in the Age of the Pits

Politics options include:
Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict: Ireland and Northern Ireland
Electoral Behaviour
Theories of the Self
European Integration and the European Union as a Political System
The Politics of Economic Ideas
French Politics
Theory and Practice in Environmental Politics
European Politics: National Identity and Ethnicity
Liberalism, Past and Present
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