In exceptional circumstances optional modules may be substituted for the dissertation. You must select the areas to be pursued there in consultation with the home and the host departments. If you are admitted to a Joint Honours scheme, you will be required at Level 2 to follow two modules from those listed for Single Honours and the remaining four modules, at Level 3, are again as listed for Single Honours students - including the special subject modules. At Level 2, you will take An Introduction to Computing for Historians and one other module. Your optional social history modules will be chosen, as appropriate, from those listed for Single Honours History Level 3.
Lectures provide the framework that links the other two methods.
Seminars are smaller discussion groups for the study of sources or specific historical problems. The prime element is the tutorial, held at regular intervals, in which you and three or four other students will meet your tutors to discuss a historical issue. In essays, you will be able to develop your powers of analysis, argument and expression. Within each week there will be ample time for the other part of the studying process - private reading and reflection Assessment is based on a combination of course work, examinations and, where appropriate, dissertations. Employers are attracted by the fact that history graduates have undergone a systematic training in evaluating and presenting evidence, arguing a case and making logical statements in writing.