Develop your critical abilities and historical knowledge within a vibrant department of committed students and expert scholars. This degree will integrate a full-year of study at one of our partner institutions abroad in your second year of a three-year undergraduate programme. In your first year, you will take our first-year core History module, which surveys world history from the world of antiquity to the twentieth century. The course encompasses histories from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia and examines pivotal events, transformative processes and historical debates. Weekly lectures and seminars will deepen your critical historical knowledge and support you in developing your own research, essay-writing and presentational skills. The majority of our students choose from a second set of optional first-year modules. These specialised modules include ‘The Fall of Rome’ and ‘Histories of Violence: How Imperialism made the Modern World’. You will spend your second year at one of our partner institutions in North America, Europe, Singapore, Australia or New Zealand. Our European partners include Free University of Berlin, Lausanne University, Free University in Amsterdam and the University of Copenhagen.When you return to Lancaster for your third and final year you will take two term-length modules, a Special Subject and you will write a dissertation under the research supervision of an academic member of staff. The department offers a range of over thirty modules. These modules include British, European, American, Asian and Middle Eastern options spanning two-millennia of history. These modules emerge from the research expertise of academic staff in the department. You will be taught by leaders in the field of critical historical research.