History & Political Economy BA/BSc

at King's College London

Structure

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits.

Year 1

Required modules
Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totaling 120 credits.

History
You are required to take the following History modules:

Historical Skills, Sources & Approaches (30 credits)

Political Economy

You are required to take the following History and Political Economy modules:

• The World Economy and its History (30 credits)
• Principles of Economics (30 credits)

Optional modules

In addition, you are required to take modules from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

History

You are required to take 30 credits of optional modules. Choose from a range of options, which may typically include:

• Medieval Worlds: Connection, Comparison and Transformation (300-1500) (30 credits)
• Early Modern Worlds (30 credits)
• Making the Modern World, 1780-1900 (15 credits)
• Making the Modern World, 1900-present (15 credits)

Political Economy
There are no optional modules for Political Economy in Year 1

Year 2

Required modules

After your first year you will choose between the BA and BSc pathways. The following modules are required for both pathways:

History

• The History of Western Political Ideas I: From Plato to c. 1700 (15 credits)
• The History of Western Political Ideas II: From 1700 to the Present (15 credits)

Political Economy

• Political Economy: Approaches, Concepts and Issues (15 credits)

If you choose the BSc pathway you will also be required to take the following Political Economy module:

• Statistics for Political Science I (15 credits)

Year 3

Required modules
You are required to do the following modules

History

Final year students are required to take a 30-credit ‘special subject’ History module from a wide range of options, which may typically include:

• The Global Cold War (30 Credits)
• Romans and Barbarians: The Transformation of the Roman West 350-700 (30 credits)
• The Enlightenment (30 credits)
• Red, White and Blues: Jazz and the United States in the 20th Century (30 credits)
• Women & Gender in Early Modern England (30 credits)
• Additional University of London Intercollegiate ‘special subject’ 30 credit modules

Political Economy
There are no required year 3 modules for the BA pathway in Political Economy.

Students on the BSc pathway are required to take the following module

• Statistics for Political Science II (15 credits)

Preferred subjects:
History A Level (or equivalent) is generally expected, however applications without can be considered where the application clearly demonstrates interest in and engagement with History as an academic subject.

Tuition Fees

Full time tuition fees UK:
The UK tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is currently £9,250 per year. This is based on the UK Government’s cap.

Full time tuition fees International:
The International tuition fee for the 2022-2023 academic year is £22,500 per year.

Please note that the International tuition fee is subject to annual increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King’s terms and conditions.

All International applicants to Undergraduate programmes are required to pay a deposit of £2,000 against their first year’s tuition fee. This deposit is payable when you firmly accept an unconditional offer to study with us, and will be offset against your tuition fees when you join King’s.

If you choose the study abroad option with one of King’s partner universities, you will not be charged tuition fees by the host university (although some partners do charge a small administration fee for applying). King’s will continue to invoice for a proportion of King's tuition fees.

You should also budget to pay for the associated subsistence costs, such as travel, visas, accommodation and food as well as any vaccination/immunisations required by the country to which you are travelling. 

Please see the Study Abroad web pages for details of the relevant partner universities and detailed information on the fees that apply under the Course Essentials tab.

Some of our students go on to research in our department or at other institutions. Others have gone on to excel in a diverse range of careers such as teaching, journalism, cultural management, politics and world of finance.