First year focuses on broad historical surveys and developing core skills. Second and third year deepen these skills and offer greater choice, including over 30 optional modules.
Students attend lectures and seminars where small groups discuss and debate historical questions with tutors.
Assessment is through end-of-trimester written examinations and continuous assessment.
Study Abroad
- Duration:
- Next Intake:
- 2024/2025 September
- Country Specific Entry Requirements:
- Visit the UCD Global Undergraduate Entry Requirements webpage.
Curricular information is subject to change.
Knowing what happened and why is essential in life. Studying History at UCD provides you with the skills necessary to understand the world we live in. Explore the past, examining a wide range of periods and topics that cover many parts of the globe. Study controversies and different ways that the past can be understood. Learn how to research, use evidence and think critically, and develop the transferrable skills desired by employers.
About this Course
Below is a list of all modules offered for this degree in the current academic year. Click on the module to discover what you will learn in the module, how you will learn and assessment feedback profile amongst other information.
Incoming Stage 1 undergraduates can usually select an Elective in the Spring Trimester. Most continuing undergraduate students can select up to two Elective modules (10 Credits) per stage. There is also the possibility to take up to 10 extra Elective credits.
You may apply to study abroad for either a trimester or a year through the Erasmus programme or on a non-EU exchange. UCD has over 200 Erasmus partners in Europe and an increasing number of non-EU exchange agreements with universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and elsewhere.
Please click here to visit the Erasmus section of the UCD Global website.
The year abroad takes place when you have accumulated at least 110 credits and satisfied any subject prerequisites, adding a fourth year to the BA programme and turning it into a BA International.
Opportunities currently include:
- University of Vienna, Austria
- Université de Rouen, France
- Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- University of Pisa, Italy
- University of Bergen, Norway
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- University of New South Wales, Australia
History graduates can find employment in:
- Broadcasting and Journalism
- Business
- Civil Service
- Law
- Publishing
- Public Relations
- Politics
- Research
- Teaching
- Marketing
- Policymaking
- Tourism
- Heritage
Graduates are also eligible to apply for UCD MA programmes in History, which include specialisms in Irish, European, International and Medieval History, Public History and History of Medicine.
The following advice is for Non-EU applicants. For Irish/EU/UK students, please apply via MyUCD.
The following entry route(s) are available:
The following entry route(s) are available:
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