Университет Де Монфорт, BA (Hons), Education Studies and History

Education studies Year 1: Modules include: Perspectives in education; issues in European education. Year 2: Historical and contemporary perspectives on children, teachers and education; development of the individual; contemporary issues in research in education; education, culture, economy and society. Year 3: Adult learners and learning; education dissertation; education and equality: class, race and ethnicity; gender in education; placement. History Year 1: Modules include: Presenting and representing the past; Great Britain, Europe and the wider world; 20th-century Europe; 20th-century America. Year 2: Sport, leisure and culture in 20th-century Britain; the development of modern Britain since 1939; Englishmen and foreigners: immigration, ethnicity and racism during the 19th- and 20th-centuries; United States ethnic history; Russia in revolution, 1861-1917; the 2nd world war; communism at home and abroad, 1917 -89; Britain and the world in the 20th-century; the cold war; British India, 1857-1947. Year 3: History dissertation; terror and progress: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 1917 to 1953; media, myth and modern British history; refugees in 20th-century Britain; rural Britain since 1939; nationalism, racism and genocide in 20th-century Europe; moments of decision: Great Britain and European integration; United States intervention and the collective memory of Vietnam.