Undergraduate Degrees 2022 Contents Welcome

History

03 Welcome Professor Ian Gregory 04 Everything you want from Head of Department your History degree 06 Degrees and entry requirements 07 Teaching and assessment Our highly rated and vibrant History We will equip you with transferable 08 Heritage placements Department offers a wide variety skills that will help you stand out in an 10 Your global experience of modules, ranging from ancient to increasingly competitive job market. modern, and the histories of Europe, the The latest Complete University Guide 12 Your degree: Americas, Africa and Asia. Our teaching (2021) placed the Department 3rd BA (Hons) History is informed by internationally recognised in the UK for graduate careers. Our 14 Optional modules research, embracing social, political, Department’s Regional Heritage Centre 15 Special subjects military, religious, cultural, intellectual supports a programme of heritage 2 16 BA (Hons) Medieval and and environmental history. We also have placements that provides you with 3 Early Modern Studies a reputation for being a world-leading opportunities to gain valuable work centre of excellence in the increasingly experience with organisations such as 18 Life on your degree important field of Digital Humanities and The National Trust, local archives 20 Meet our staff the use of new technologies in research and museums. 22 Your future career and analysis. We pride ourselves on the strong sense Studying with us, you will have flexibility of community in our friendly department. to select modules that fascinate you and Our active student society organises Our thoughts are with all who are affected by the tailor your degree to your own individual a fun and exciting variety of course- coronavirus pandemic. For the latest information in interests. We support you in developing related and social activities throughout relation to applying to Lancaster University, please strong research skills throughout your the year. visit: www.lancaster.ac.uk/coronavirus/applicants degree, preparing you for final year We hope you enjoy learning more about projects involving intensive primary History at Lancaster. Please do contact research, such as the Special Subject us if you have any questions, we’d love to Get in touch module and dissertation. hear from you. Department of History Bowland College Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT United Kingdom E: [email protected] www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Message a student: www.lancaster.ac.uk/chat Connect with us @LancasterHistor

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www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Everything you want from your History degree

Become a specialist Why I chose Follow your interests with our wide range of specialised modules in ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern and contemporary history. Delve deeper through your own research in the final-year Special Subject Lancaster module and dissertation.

Anna Drury Gain experience BA (Hons) History, Year 2 Gain valuable work experience in the heritage sector with our placement programme. Through our Regional Heritage Centre, you can apply to work with museums and archives in your second year. You can also undertake a As a first-year student, when I reflect upon why I chose to study year-long placement with our four-year Placement Year degree. History at Lancaster, numerous reasons come to mind. The highly regarded Department, as well as Lancaster being enriched with its Unique to you own compelling history, drew me towards studying here. Attending Make your degree your own; study History as a joint degree with Chinese, a History Summer School during my time at Sixth Form further 4 English Literature, French, German, International Relations, Philosophy, confirmed that Lancaster was the place I wanted to be. 5 Politics, or Spanish. You can also broaden the scope of your studies by selecting a minor subject in Year 1. The endless amount of support you receive at Lancaster, from your college, the caring and dedicated members of the History Explore the world Department, and various institutions such as student support hub You can apply to study abroad as part of your degree. Potential The Base, ensures that you immediately feel a valued member of destinations include Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. Shorter trips the University community. can be made in vacation time; recent destinations include China, India, Malaysia and the USA.

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www.lancaster.ac.uk/history 7 Degrees and Teaching and entry requirements assessment

+ Our teaching takes place in + You will divide your time + Most modules are assessed Degree title Award Degree length UCAS code Typical offer lectures, group seminars and between timetabled teaching, by a combination of Single Honours workshops. individual consultations coursework and examination, + Lectures introduce key with academic staff and with coursework making History BA (Hons) 3 years V100 AAB historical questions and provide independent study, resulting up approximately 50% of an overview of the key materials in a full study schedule. assessment overall. Medieval and Early Modern Studies BA (Hons) 3 years V125 AAB and themes on each module. + Every module has a dedicated + Seminars and workshops Moodle website as part of the Combined Honours are interactive. They give University’s Virtual Learning you the opportunity to Environment. This is used History and International Relations BA (Hons) 3 years VL12 AAB discuss specific questions for posting resources and and debates. communicating with other History, Philosophy and Politics BA (Hons) 3 years V0L0 AAB students in the group.

History and Philosophy BA (Hons) 3 years VVC5 AAB

History and Politics BA (Hons) 3 years LV21 AAB

6 English Literature and History BA (Hons) 3 years QV31 AAB 7 Chinese Studies and History BA (Hons) 4 years T1V1 AAB

French Studies and History BA (Hons) 4 years RV11 AAB

German Studies and History BA (Hons) 4 years RV21 AAB

Spanish Studies and History BA (Hons) 4 years RV41 AAB

Please see our website for information about required subjects and grades. We welcome applications from students with a range of alternative UK and international qualifications. One of my favourite aspects of I found both of these modules Further guidance can be found at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/entry-requirements Daisy’s the core, first year module was really interesting, and I particularly being able to explore areas of enjoyed going on a trip to the Placement year degrees history that I had not been taught castle in Lancaster as part of first year during school. In particular, one the first module, as it was great Check online for the correct UCAS codes to apply for a placement year degree, which are available with most of our of my favourite lectures was to be able to see some of the programmes. With specialist support, you will apply for a professional, paid work placement in Year 3 and return to Lancaster about the fall of the Aztec Empire. things we had been looking at in to complete your degree in Year 4. Find out more here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/placement-year I also chose to take a module our lectures. On our joint degrees with Chinese, French, German or Spanish Studies, you will spend your third year studying or working called ‘Witches, Warriors and Daisy Lodge, abroad on an international placement year. Slavers: Exploring the History of BA (Hons) History, Year 2 Lancaster’ in my first term, and a Study abroad degrees module called ‘Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800’ in You can apply for a study abroad year when you arrive at Lancaster. On our three-year study abroad degrees you spend my second term. Year 2 studying at one of our international partner universities. Find out more: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study-abroad

For information on fees, scholarships and any additional costs you might need to consider, please see our website: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Heritage placements

At Lancaster, we integrate work experience opportunities into your academic studies. In your second year, you can opt to take a credit- bearing, heritage work placement module entitled ‘From Education to Employment’, which is coordinated through the Department’s Regional Heritage Centre. The employers range from prominent multi-site organisations such as the National Trust to small independent museums, county archives, and heritage consultants. On a work placement, you might find yourself analysing data on visitor experiences, writing text for exhibitions or researching world-class collections. This opportunity will provide insight into the different careers that exist in the heritage sector and the type of work that such roles involve.

Placement providers include: The placements may involve any of the following activities: + Lancaster City Museum + Greater Manchester Police Museum + Curating virtual exhibitions 8 + Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library, Preston + Repurposing, cataloguing, and contextualising 9 + Keswick Museum existing resources + Lancashire Archives, Preston + Creating and running public workshops, including for schools or families + Cumbria Archives Service at Barrow and Carlisle + Producing informative literature + Lancashire Infantry Museum, Preston + Checking historic inventories + Judges’ Lodgings Museum, Lancaster + Working with oral history resources including + Tullie House Museum, Carlisle transcription + Setting up activity trails + Rebuilding the online profile of the organisation

My placement at Lancaster with programmes like Adobe City Museum was a great Photoshop and InDesign to experience, and I got to have create it. I had a lot of fun with a really interesting look at the extra opportunities we Valuable the inner workings of local were offered through this heritage. I enjoyed working with placement as well, it was great the art collection and gaining to be able to help out with Please note that the above placement providers are given as a guide only as our skills experience with a collections setting up the new exhibition partnerships can vary each year. Whilst we cannot guarantee all students will be database, which is potentially at the Maritime Museum. offered a heritage placement, there are other opportunities available. Our Careers for Tom a very valuable skill to have Tom Huntington, Service offer competitive internships you can apply for in all years of study and gained. I was designing an art BA (Hons) English Literature across a range of employment sectors. You can also choose a placement year guide so it was also brilliant to and History, graduated 2020 degree in which you apply to undertake a year-long, professional placement. gain experience with writing Find out more on page 22. for a public audience and work

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Study abroad Vacation travel History students also had the opportunity to critically reflect on In your second year, you can In the Easter vacation, we how the past is ‘remembered’ and gain valuable international typically run a ten-day trip to New ‘created’, drawing on practical experience living and studying York and Boston in which you examples to put their studies in another country, with all the join fellow students and lecturers into context. diverse cultural opportunities from the Faculty of Arts and this brings. You will be able to Social Sciences to take part in During the summer, we usually forge friendships and develop academic, cultural and personal run three-week programmes to international networks with development activities. destinations such as Malaysia, India, Ghana and China. These students while studying at Previously, the trip has focused include meeting local students leading universities worldwide. on the historic northeast of the and businesses as well as In Europe we currently partner country. Students spent a week academic study and cultural with the Free University of in Boston, the birthplace of the discovery. Your global Amsterdam, Free University of American Revolution, before Berlin, KU Leuven, University of travelling south to New York, You can also attend summer Copenhagen, and the University the city that never sleeps. They schools at one of our many of Vienna. You will be taught in visited a number of historic overseas partner universities. English, while still being able to landmarks and museums, experience benefit from language-learning including the Freedom Trail, the opportunities. Further afield, we historic town of Concord, the JFK currently partner with universities Presidential Library in Boston, Lancaster is a truly international university, with in Australia, Canada and the USA. the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the students and staff from over 100 different countries Find out more: www.lancaster. United Nations and Ellis Island in and partner institutions around the world. ac.uk/your-global-experience New York amongst many other sites. Your global experience is about living and learning with Destinations are given as a Alongside taking in the sights people from different cultures whether through your guide only as places at overseas and sounds of two busy US cities, 10 course, your college or your Students’ Union. partners vary each year. 11 You’ll be able to access horizon-expanding opportunities around the world, with exciting possibilities ranging from short vacation travel to longer study abroad options.

Please note that overseas opportunities may be impacted by international travel or Government border restrictions. I had always wanted to visit range, opting for a literature Australia, and I was not module, which I thoroughly disappointed when I attended enjoyed! More than anything, the Monika’s year Monash University, in Melbourne, variety of courses they offered for a year. It was such an amazing was immense, including, Ancient in Australia experience. The vibrancy and Egypt: The Golden Age, exploring culture of Melbourne as a city the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries was fantastic to experience. I took BC, and Witches and Depravity full advantage of opportunities in Early Modern England. These to travel while there, managing modules were so fascinating to visit three of Australia’s major and significantly improved my cities in an epic road trip, with a historical analysis skills. solo journey to Perth shortly after! I cannot recommend studying What appealed to me most about abroad highly enough. The studying at Monash University academic, personal and physical was the flexibility, which allowed growth that the experience me to choose modules from provides makes it all worthwhile. periods throughout history, even Monika Zdunek, spanning different faculties. BA (Hons) History, graduated Because of this structure, I was 2020 able to expand my academic

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Your degree Year 2 BA (Hons) History

Core Core Making History: Contexts, Writing History: Questions, Optional modules Our History course encompasses histories from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia Sources and Publics Methods, Conclusions and examines pivotal events, transformative processes and historical debates. You can also study History as a joint degree combined with Chinese, English Literature, French Studies, German Studies, International Relations, Philosophy, Politics, or Spanish This core module focuses on major This module prepares you for your You can tailor your degree to your Studies. We also offer a combined degree in History, Philosophy and Politics. historiographical case studies, dissertation. You will develop a interests by selecting from the wide offering an introduction to the theory detailed research proposal, conduct range of optional modules available You can take a placement year with many of our degrees, extending your degree to four and practice of the discipline of a reflexive ‘feasibility study’ for your (see page 14 for an indicative list). years and including a year-long paid placement in your third year. Placement applications history: its good and bad practices, project, present your preliminary You may wish to choose the credit- are competitive, so to give you the best chance of success, you’ll be supported its methodologies and different findings, and respond to feedback bearing heritage placement module. throughout the process by our team; including personalised coaching and support on genres, its relation to both past and from experts in your prospective Read more about this on page 8. present and its uses of primary and field of research. offer throughout your second year. secondary sources. OR Year 1 Minor module

Core From Ancient to Modern: Optional History Optional modules module You may choose to continue History and Historians the minor subject you studied in Year 1.

12 This module extends and deepens Choose two of the following You can choose additional optional Year 3 13 your knowledge of the past and modules: History modules from the list to the introduces you to core historical + Histories of Violence: How left. themes from Ancient Rome to the Imperialism Made the Modern present day. You will engage with a World wide range of primary sources used Core Core Optional + Reform, Rebellion and Reason: by historians and gain insights into OR Dissertation Special Subject modules how historians conduct research and Britain, 1500-1800 interpret the past. + The Fall of Rome + ‘Witches’, Warriors, and Slavers: Exploring the History of Lancaster Minor module Your dissertation gives you the You will select one Special Subject You will select two optional History opportunity to work in depth, and undertake intensive, primary- modules. See page 14 for a list of gaining the satisfaction of working source based research. During options. independently and of developing a small-group seminars throughout You can select a module in another topic of your own. Working closely the year, you will work under the subject to complement your studies with your dissertation supervisor, guidance of an expert historian to in History. We will provide a list you will research and write an 8,000- hone your skills by investigating of minor module options prior to to 10,000-word study on a historical primary sources and exploring the starting your studies at Lancaster topic that fascinates you. topic and its debates. See page 15 along with information on how to for indicative options. register for your preferred choice.

We keep our degree programmes under constant review, and regularly introduce and update modules. In any academic year, the modules offered may therefore differ from those presented here. Similarly, the structure of our degrees may change, in response to curricular developments and following consultation with students. Please check our website for the latest information: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Optional History modules (Years 2 and 3)

Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Modern History and Historical Methods + Byzantine and Muslim Sicily, 535-1072 + Britain in the Twentieth Century + Crusade and Jihad: Holy War in the Middle East, + From Truman to Reagan: US Foreign Policy 1095-1254 and the Presidency, 1945-1989 + From Mining to Mountaineering: Industry and + Gandhi and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1948 Culture in the Lake District, 1500 to today + Inventing Human Rights, 1776-2001 + Norman England,1066-1154: Conquest, + Partisans and Collaborators: World War II Colonisation and Conflict in Occupied Europe + On the Edge of Empire: Being Roman in Britain + Sex, Satire and British Society, 1660–1901 + Slavery & Freedom: North America, 1620-1800 + The Cold War in Europe + The Making of Germany, 843-1122 + The History of the United States, 1789-1865 + The Origins and Rise of Islam, 600-1250 + The History of the United States, 1865-1989 + The Roman Empire: Society and Culture in the + The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901 Mediterranean and Beyond + The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1865 + Virginia, 1585-1685: Adventure, War and Tobacco in the First American Colony

Placement and Employability + From Education to Employment (Heritage Placement) 14 15

Special Subjects (Year 3)

+ Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960 + From Rebellion to Revolution: The War for the Throne, + Anarchy and Society in the Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720 1199-1265 + ’A World Full of Gods’: Lived Religion in the Roman + Gender Identities in the People’s War: Experiences, Empire Representations and Memories + Battles of World War Two: Resistance and the Holocaust + The East India Company: Merchant State, 1600-1857 + ’Dangerous Thoughts’: Soviet Dissent, Human Rights, + The Normans in Italy, 1050-1194 and the Cold War + The Third Reich and Film + Fake News or Fact? Ballads and News Culture in Early + Vikings and Sea-Kings: Power and Plunder in the Modern England Irish Sea Region, 794-1079 + From Balfour to Brexit: Britain as a Great Power since 1914

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history BA (Hons) Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Our Medieval and Early Modern Studies degree allows you to study the political, cultural, military, religious, social and scientific history and literature of the period. This draws upon the expertise of leading History and English Literature academics, who will teach you throughout your degree.

Year 1 Year 2 Final year Sam’s first Core Core Core

+ From Ancient to Modern: History + Making History: Contexts, Sources + Dissertation and Historians and Publics year + Special Subject Options + Writing History: Questions, Options Methods, Conclusions + Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Options + Anarchy and Society in the Britain, 1500-1800 Caribbean, c.1620-c.1720 + The Fall of Rome + Byzantine and Muslim Sicily, + From Rebellion to Revolution: The 535-1072 + ‘Witches’, Warriors and Slavers: War for the Throne, 1199-1265 Sam Barker, 16 Exploring the History of + Crusade and Jihad: Holy War in the + Paradise Lost - Colonisation and BA (Hons) History, Year 2 17 Lancaster Middle East, 1095-1254 the Jamaican Environment, 1655- + Europe and the World, 1450- 1838 Minor module 1650: Bodies, Cultures, and + Premodern Gothic + Chinese/French/German/Spanish Environments Studies + Public and Private Performances + From Mining to Mountaineering: of Self in Medieval Literature and My favourite part of first year was the last week of Michaelmas + English Literature Industry and Culture in the Lake Drama term. Despite having essays and exams due, we were all able + Introduction to Philosophy District, 1500-Today + Shakespeare to celebrate the end of term with a fun football social and the + Politics in the Modern World + Late Medieval to Early Modern Literature + The East India Company: Merchant college winter ball. The core module this year has been really State, 1600-1857 + Making Modern Britain, c. 1660 – useful; studying a variety of history has made me consider Availability of minor modules is 1720 + The Normans in Italy, 1050-1194 subject to timetabling restrictions. studying periods of history I had never even thought about + Norman England, 1066-1154: Conquest, Colonisation and before and has definitely sparked new interests that I will be able Conflict to explore next year. + On the Edge of Empire: Being Roman in Britain Most of the help I have received this year has been through my + Sex, Satire and British Society, seminar tutor for the core module, who has really helped me 1660–1901 to improve. The Department Coordinator has also been very + Slavery & Freedom: North America, helpful for general advice. Another crucial service that I and all If you wish to take more than 1620-1800 30 credits in English Literature other history students rely on is the library. This stocks the vast + The Making of Germany, 843-1122 modules in Years 2 and 3, it is majority of books we need for our modules and if there is a book compulsory to choose English + The Origins and Rise of Islam, 600- Literature as a minor module in 1250 AD that they don’t have, it is really easy to order it in, or access an Year 1. English Literature as a + The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, online copy. The fact that many of the resources are digitised has minor module in Year 1 requires B 1500-1865 at A level (or equivalent) in English been really helpful for me as I much prefer reading books online + Virginia, 1585-1685: Adventure, Literature or English Language War and Tobacco in the First to having a hard copy. and Literature. American Colony

www.lancaster.ac.uk/historylancaster.ac.uk/history Lancaster University The Lancaster Award Society of History (LUSH) We actively encourage students Lancaster University Society of to participate in the Lancaster History (LUSH) is exactly what Award, which rewards you it sounds like, a chance to bring for taking part in extra- Life on your together anyone with a passion curricular activities. This for history, regardless of whether certificate enhances your you are a history student or future employment prospects not. Working closely with the by encouraging you to engage degree in college activities, careers Department, LUSH are a fun way for you and your friends to workshops, work experience and engage with history outside the volunteering. The new skills and lecture hall or library. With regular experiences developed through socials, nights out, pub quizzes, these endeavours is recognised movie nights and themed parties, and valued by employers. we really do have something for Find out more: www.lancaster. everyone! As historians, we do spend a great deal visited the medieval cathedral and the ac.uk/lancaster-award of time in libraries and archives. However, City’s Magna Carta; and to castles in North there are numerous opportunities to get Wales built by Edward I. Closer to home, @LUSocofHistory out and about. The first-year module, trips could include Lancaster Maritime Lancaster University ‘Histories of Violence: How Imperialism Museum, to learn about Lancaster’s history Society of History Made the Modern World’, for example, as a slaving port, and to Heysham to see 18 requires students to carry out intensive the early medieval archaeological remains [email protected] 19 research of a fragment of the British empire like St Peter’s church and the Heysham in Lancashire. Recent field trips have hogback stone. included Lincoln, during which students

– History students enjoying the winter ice skating rink in Dalton Square, Lancaster

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Meet our staff

My research focuses on of papers belonging to slave Atlantic history, particularly traders. I also draw extensively the trans-Atlantic slave trade on digital resources, principally and plantation slavery in North Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic America and the Caribbean. My Slave Trade Database and a current project studies slave 3D model of a slave ship that I trading merchants in Britain, have developed in collaboration Dr Nicholas Africa, and the Americas, with an international team of and explores how their profit scholars. These digital and Radburn -motivated decisions shaped textual sources underpin Lecturer in the the lives of the people whom my undergraduate modules they bought as captives and at Lancaster, one of which 20 History of the sold as slaves. I have performed examines the trans-Atlantic 21 archival research for the project slave trade’s long history, and Atlantic World in both the United States and another that examines the 1500 - 1800 the United Kingdom, where intertwined histories of slavery I have examined a plethora and freedom in colonial America.

Professor Naomi Tadmor Professor of History My main interests lie in political of the crusading movement on ethics and war in the later Middle political and military culture. Ages. Much of my research My new research focuses My main area of research is I have worked a great deal on has revolved around a central on low status combatants English history from the sixteenth archival materials, both in the question: what could people in this period, exploring the to the eighteenth centuries. I north of England and in the do when they were fed up with experiences of soldiers as am particularly interested in south, but much of my work their government? In particular well as the shifting patterns of social relations, and in the ways is centred on the language of Dr Sophie Thérèse I have explored the period from thought concerned with their in which they were imagined social description, and on the Ambler the first issue of Magna Carta in roles and responsibilities in and understood in the past, relationships between languages 1215 and the ensuing rebellion conflict. My teaching draws which is also what I teach in my and historical realities. Alongside Lecturer in Later to the revolution of 1258-65, from this research and my undergraduate modules: what archival sources, I study religious Medieval British when a party led by Simon de wider interests, from rebellion concepts of family and friendship and literary texts, and the law. Montfort seized control of and revolution in thirteenth- did people have? In what terms I am currently finishing a book and European government, investigating the century Europe to the crusading were social hierarchies imagined on poverty, migration, and state arguments made for and against movement, and warfare across and justified: between servant administration in the seventeenth History radical action and the influence the medieval world. and master, rulers and ruled, and eighteenth centuries. rich and poor, women and men?

www.lancaster.ac.uk/history Your future career #3for History After you graduate graduate careers + Museums and Heritage + Human Resource Management A Lancaster University History degree is a gateway to an Our graduates go on to a + Teaching + Banking exciting and rewarding career. History graduates are able to Complete University wide variety of successful + Local Government + Insurance think critically, analyse evidence, structure an argument, and Guide (2021) careers, including: communicate effectively. A degree in History offers you the + Law + Hospitality combination of specialised knowledge and a comprehensive + Retail Management + University Administration understanding of the world in which we live.

Postgraduate study + MA History, Medieval History or + PGCE in Primary or Modern History Secondary Education Placement and internship Faculty internships Placement year degrees Many of our graduates choose to continue their studies + MA Digital Humanities + Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) opportunities with specialist postgraduate These are typically 4-6 week With many of our degrees you + MA Museum Studies + MA Corporate Communications, internships that are available in can apply for a placement year, qualifications, including: Placements and internships + MSc Information Management Marketing and Public Relations the summer vacation or on where you would apply to spend are great ways to gain work and Preservation + MA Social Work experience, make professional a part-time basis during Year 3 working in a professional + MA Journalism contacts and help you decide term time. They provide work paid role in a sector of your your career path. A wide range experience in small and medium choice. Placement applications of opportunities are available, sized businesses as well as are competitive, so to give you third sector and not-for-profit the best chance of success, you’ll and some (such as placement I look back on my time at specialist level, in applying an organisations. Past employers be supported throughout the modules) provide credit towards Lancaster with fondness and historicist approach to literature. have included Carnegie process by our team, including 22 your degree. Places are not appreciation; three golden years Furthermore, the presentation, 23 Publishing, The Dukes Theatre, personalised coaching and usually guaranteed but we of precious knowledge, changing social and leadership skills I and the National Trust, with roles support on offer throughout your will help you prepare for the perspectives, new experiences developed throughout my time ranging from marketing and PR second year. competitive application process. and new people. From lecture at Lancaster have enabled me Heritage placements to specific research projects. Find out more at: School volunteering placements to lecture, I journeyed from to be an effective classroom www.lancaster.ac.uk/ revolutionary Haiti, to partition practitioner, an effective member These credit-bearing work fass-placements India, from post-war America to of the school community, and placements can be undertaken Through the Students’ Union you the icy terrains of Siberia (to name also an effective member of a in Year 2 as part of the optional can volunteer for roles in local but a few!). My History BA gifted wider educational network. Most module ‘From Education to schools, such as a classroom me a toolkit of opportunities importantly, my degree taught Employment’. Find out more on assistant or reading buddy. and skills. The research and me the invaluable skill of critical page 8 of this booklet. There are also roles on campus such as organising activity days A career analysis skills fundamental to thinking. It is my ardent goal to for school groups. the degree are essential in my share this with my students and work as a teacher. The ‘cultural encourage them to question for Hayley capital’ I gained through my everything. degree plays an active role in Hayley Mars, enriching my students’ general Teacher, graduated 2016 world view and, on a more Lancaster University opportunities throughout the an exclusive job search portal. Careers Service year. You can be matched with an With this array of options it employer or a previous graduate can be confusing to know Our Careers Service has for one-to-one advice and take where to start, but our team of connections with some of the part in a range of workshops friendly, experienced careers world’s top graduate recruiters, such as writing a brilliant CV, professionals are always on hand Important information high growth businesses and developing a LinkedIn profile to help and advise. The information in this booklet relates primarily to 2022/23 entry to the University and every effort has been taken employers across every sector, or succeeding at psychometric Find out more: to ensure the information is correct at the time of publication in June 2021. The University will use all reasonable and organises careers fairs, testing. We have a vast range www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers effort to deliver the course as described but the University reserves the right to make changes after publication workshops, and networking of online resources as well as You are advised to consult our website at www.lancaster.ac.uk/study for up-to-date information before you submit your application. Further legal information may be found at www.lancaster.ac.uk/compliance/legalnotice