Year one at Durham City Campus builds core historical skills through making history, taught in small-group seminar strands on topics spanning different periods and places. You develop foundational knowledge of historical research, primary source analysis, historiography, and academic writing through book reviews, source commentaries, and an independent project while building discussion and presentation skills for professional history careers. Alongside the core module, you select optional modules across medieval, early modern, and modern history, preparing you for conversations in history in year two at Durham University Department of History.

• Making History — Core

Year two develops advanced historical study through conversations in history, taught in intensive small-group seminar strands requiring extensive reading, discussion, and writing about how history is written and understood. You define your own historical questions, complete an independent research project, and develop historiographical analysis while building professional skills for academic and heritage roles. Alongside the core module, you select optional modules across medieval, early modern, and late modern history, preparing you for your dissertation and special subject modules in year three at Durham University.

• Conversations in History — Core

Year three completes your history degree through a substantial dissertation on a topic of your choosing under academic supervision, alongside optional special subject and advanced history modules. You undertake independent research producing a major written thesis, consolidating research, analysis, and writing skills developed across years one and two through making history and conversations in history. Graduates are prepared for historian, academic historian, history lecturer, university professor, archaeologist, and heritage manager roles across universities, museums, and heritage organisations in the UK and internationally.

• Dissertation — Core