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Programme profile
History at Trinity aims to encourage the greatest possible critical independence among those learning the techniques and the methods of historical research and writing.
The History programme at Trinity College has been constructed on clear pedagogical and intellectual principles. In the first two years the modules are designed to provide you with a systematic knowledge of European and Irish history, with options in American and other non-European modules, as well as to introduce you to particular aspects of history along socio-political, cultural and economic lines. In the second part of the programme, a very wide degree of choice is made available to students from a broad range of specialist courses offered by those actively engaged in research on these topics. An independently conceived, researched and presented dissertation is a key element of the final year
Joint Honours options also available
Programme content
First Year:
Options from: Doing history; Europe, 1000-1250: War and society in the age of the Crusades; Ireland, 1000-1250: Brian Boru to the English invasion; Britain, 1066-1296: Conquest and domination; Europe, 1000-1250: Conflict of church and state; Ireland, 1250-1500: Gaelic revival and the English Pale; Britain, 1296-1603: Nations and kingship; Europe, 1500-1700: Power and belief; Britain, 1603-1815: The making of a great power; American history: A survey;An introduction to south Asian history;Modern language electives
The Second Year:
Six Options from: Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and their impact on Britain and Ireland, c.400-1000; Europe, c.1215-1517: Religion, death and culture; The Hundred Years War; Ireland and the wider world, 1534-1641; Ireland and the wider world, 1641-1815; Culture and politics in Europe, 1700-1815; Ireland and the union, 1801-1922; Europe, 1870-1930: Grandeur and decline; Europe since; 1914: Cataclysm and rebirth; Twentieth-century Ireland; The rise and fall of the British Empire; Themes in modern American history
Third and Fourth Years:
A wide range of subjects within three different categories: Primary Source based Modules; Historiographic Modules; Thematic/Analytic Modules
Entry Requirements
Students must present six subjects of which two must be at grade C or above at Advanced GCE (A-Level. Others must be at least at grade C or above on GCSE or Advanced Subsidiary GCE (AS) papers. The six subjects above must include:English, Mathematics and a language other than English.
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