Get ready with a foundation year and learn the foundational skills and knowledge to complete a full Honours degree. You'll be able to embark on this qualification without meeting the level 3 entry requirements, giving you the opportunity to study at degree level through this four year course.
Explore the past to shape your future with our BA (Hons) History at Canterbury Christ Church University. If you're looking for a course that spans centuries of history, this degree offers you the chance to delve into the people, ideas, conflicts, and movements that have shaped the world.
Studying History at CCCU will show you how the world has been shaped by history. You’ll make connections between the past and present as you perfect your craft as an historian through critical interrogation and application in practice.
Upon graduation, you’ll have a portfolio of your best work to showcase to employers, setting you up for success in creative and heritage industries, education, business, politics, and more. At Canterbury you don’t just study history - you live it, and you make it.
We accept a wide range of general qualifications that attract UCAS Tariff points either on their own or in combination with others. Below are some common examples.
Qualification | Grades |
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A Levels | DDE |
BTEC | MPP |
Access | Pass 45 Credits |
International Baccalaureate | TBC |
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, and (where relevant to your module) field trips. You will typically have around 9 contact hours per week although your contact hours in Years 2 and 3 will depend on the optional modules you select.
Seminars in smaller groups will enable you to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures.
You will also be supported in your learning through regular access to your tutors who have office hours devoted to students each week, and through one-to-one tutorials during a designated tutorial week in each semester. In addition, you will meet periodically with your personal academic tutor. All modules are supported by a virtual learning environment (VLE), providing information about modules and a variety of learning and support materials. You'll also have access to IT and library facilities throughout your course.
In Year 2, you'll have an opportunity to take an employability module to help develop specific graduate skills.
For your core module you'll have access to PebblePad, a reflective online space where you can construct a portfolio of evidence of your activities that can be exported after graduation. This provides you with a ready-made demonstration of your own development and skills.
All courses are informed by the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2015-2022.
When not attending lectures, seminars, workshops or other timetabled sessions you will continue learning through self-study. Typically, this involves reading journal articles and books, undertaking research in the library, and preparing for coursework assignments/examinations, workshops and seminars. Your module tutor will direct you towards specific readings and/or activities to complete before classes.
For the dissertation in Year 3, you will undertake independent research, working under the supervision of a member of the History team who you will meet with regularly.
You are expected to spend 37 hours per week studying, of which around 9 hours would be contact time.
You will be taught by staff who are professional historians, experts in their fields, and active, published researchers of national and international standing and repute.
All our team members hold doctoral qualifications and have extensive experience in delivering research-informed teaching. You can find out more about the current teaching on our History subject area web page.
Postgraduate students sometimes assist in teaching and assessing some modules, working alongside experienced members of staff. The permanent course team teach the vast majority of lectures and seminars across all three years of the degree.
History shapes both who we are and what we are able to do. In our supportive and dynamic programme, you will unlock the past and open the door to your future.Dr Dave HitchcockCourse Director
Our History modules are assessed by a variety of methods, with coursework being by far the most common. The coursework component typically involves essays, document analyses, presentations, portfolio assignments, VLE based projects, and class-based multiple choice tests. A few modules, however, do have a formal, written examination component; where this is present, it counts for no more than 50% of the overall module assessment. Usually, each module has two pieces of assessment of different kinds, though some modules have just one assessment.
You must achieve a pass mark of 40 or above in all Year 1 modules order to progress to Year 2.
We work hard to prepare you for the world of work by emphasising the transferable skills valued by employers across a spectrum of professions, including empirical research, critical thinking, and clear writing. Recent history graduates have embarked on careers in heritage, education, the public sector, the arts industries and business.
After leaving CCCU and its historians I did a stint in the private sector before finding my real calling as a campaigner within the UK voluntary sector, becoming Head of Campaigns for the RNID (now re-named Action on Hearing Loss). In parallel I became involved with political think-tanks such as the Fabian Society writing on foreign policy issues. In both cases my History degree was useful both in terms of content (how political issues are understood and acted upon) and training (how to construct a sound argument). I am now Head of Communications at International Alert, an NGO for which I continue to use those same skills working in armed conflicts around the world.Chris UndewoodHead of Communications, International Alert
Tuition Fees for 2026/27 have not yet been finalised. These course web pages will be updated with Tuition Fee information once they have been agreed.
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Duration:
4 yearsUCAS code:
V103Location(s):
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