History
| Award | Attendance | Study | Duration | Start | Domestic fees | International fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | On-Campus | Full-time | 3 | find out | £20350 per year | £9250 per year |
About History, BA - at SOAS University of London
BA History offers students a unique perspective of the history of the world. The programme provides sound foundations of history as a discipline by introducing central approaches and theories in historical analysis. This knowledge is embedded in a global perspective, rather than a Eurocentric one.
Particularly, the programme encourages students to develop their understanding of the regional histories of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in their own terms, link them to the history of the world, and assess their significance in the world today from a decolonised approach.
The programme supports the development of key skills, including source analysis, collecting data, integrating varied sources and concepts, and the construction and presentation of an argument. All this helps the students cultivate a critical understanding of the diversity of cultures and societies in the world, the historical processes that have produced this diversity, and articulate their own position in it.
Programme aims
- The programme will allow the student to cultivate their critical understanding of the diversity of cultures and societies in the world today, the historical processes that have produced this diversity and continue to unfold, and the importance of historical context and historical writing in understanding the world today.
- The programme will allow the student to gain an in-depth understanding of the histories and societies in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
- The programme will allow the student to develop a critical and decolonised view of the history of the world, using the perspectives and experienced of people in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and the sources that they produced.
- The programme will allow the students to develop their skills in gathering information, processing it within various theoretical and analytical framework, shaping their own arguments using this data, and communicating their stand in various platforms.
Entry requirements
Contact SOAS University of London to find course entry requirements.
Why study at SOAS University of London
- SOAS is in London, which is officially the best student city in the world - and has been for five years in a row (QS World Rankings 2024)
- There are 5,630 students on campus, from 135+ countries
- 2nd in the UK for international faculty (QS World Rankings 2024)
- Top 30 in the UK (The Times Good University Guide 2024)
- Top 40 in the UK for research quality Complete University Guide 2024)
- 6th in the UK for employment outcomes (QS World Rankings 2023)
- Top 100 in the world for addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Peace, Justice, Poverty and Gender Equality (Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, 2023)
- One of 35 National Research Libraries in the UK. We have over 1.5 million volumes, periodicals and audio-visual materials in 400 languages, focusing on Asia, Africa and the Middle East
- 87% of research ranked 'world-leading or internationally excellent' (Research Excellence Framework 2021)