Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in History with Economics

at New College of the Humanities United Kingdom

The Combined Honours Law LLB is a Qualifying Law Degree, covering all of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board required areas of study to permit progression onto the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister.

Your Law with English LLB (Hons) will allow you to prepare for your career and follow your passions. In your degree, you will take all of the courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, preparing you to take the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister. You will also study three courses in English, allowing you to develop complementary skills of analysis – of legal and fictional texts – and essay writing.

The central aim of the Philosophy major is to bring clarity and rigour to students’ thinking and to advance their understanding of, and ability to engage with, central questions, arguments, theories, and texts concerning the world and our place within it.

The Philosophy with Creative Writing BA (Hons) will teach you to write and analyse texts and arguments with clarity, rigour, and originality. The Philosophy major will give you the ability to engage with central questions, arguments, theories and texts concerning the world and our place within it. You’ll learn about the logic behind language and meaning, alongside studying topics such as ethics, metaphysics and aesthetics. The Creative Writing minor will enable you to express your philosophical judgements in a variety of forms, from short fiction to poetry to scriptwriting, as has been established practice in the history of philosophy. 

Develop your skills in analysing and creating literature, learning how writers have responded to their contexts, cultures, and the literature of their contemporaries while gaining the tools and confidence to develop your creative responses to your cultural situation.

Your English with Creative Writing BA (Hons) will enable you to develop your skills in analysing and creating literature. You’ll take courses in literature from 1550 to the present, learning how writers have responded to their contexts, cultures, and the literature of their contemporaries. You’ll gain the tools and confidence to develop your creative responses to your cultural situation, and will find yourself approaching a diverse range of literary forms from both a critical and creative perspective.

The MSc Responsible Artificial Intelligence is a well-integrated programme of study with a targeted focus on both in theory and in application. Presupposing no background in computing, students are equipped with relevant knowledge and data programming skills, covering not only recent technical developments, but also broader ethical and theoretical considerations.

The option to study philosophical issues of AI whilst pursuing a Masters level computing degree is a unique offering in the UK, allowing students the opportunity to delve on the technical as well as the societal impact of data processing and, in particular, machine learning applications.

The programme allows students to progressively develop their understanding of the techniques of data science, machine learning, and natural language processing, alongside key concepts and methods of computer science, while honing their programming skills in Python and Java; and, at the same time, refine their thinking and communication skills, through humanities courses devoted to a consideration of key practical and theoretical issues, arising in connection with AI.

The Art History with Law BA (Hons) will allow you to follow your passion and prepare for your career. The Art History major gives you the opportunity to see and interpret moments in history through their architecture and material culture. The course combines cultural surveys with more intense, media-specific subjects including architecture, landscape and painting. For your Law minor, you will study key issues in Law thematically, allowing you to develop commercial awareness highly valued by a range of employers.

The Art History with History BA will allow you to interpret moments of history as manifested in works of art. Both your major and your minor include surveys of historical periods and their cultures, which are then supplemented by media specific and period specific courses in Art History and History respectively. You’ll learn about painting, ceramics, architecture, and landscapes, alongside broader reflections on the nature of the historical discipline and its applications.

This MA Philosophy is an excellent preparation for a PhD and a career in academia. It also develops critical reasoning, logic, and systematic approaches to problem solving, alongside an ability to analyse an issue from a broader perspective, all of which are highly valued by employers in a variety of fields. This degree will allow you to become a visionary in a wide range of organisations.

The MA Philosophy programme at NCH provides a rigorous and wide-ranging programme relevant both to those entering formal philosophical study as graduates of other disciplines and to philosophy graduates seeking to consolidate and expand their studies.

Develop your historical knowledge and your ability to communicate it effectively by exploring a broad range of historical periods from the Roman Empire through to present-day America in depth, while learning to effectively use databases, systems and analytical tools to generate insights and intelligence.

Studying the History with Data Science BA (Hons), you will develop both your historical knowledge and your ability to communicate it effectively. You will explore a broad range of historical periods from the Roman Empire through to present-day America in depth, and take courses examining the historical discipline itself, and its practice and applications. You will also learn to effectively use databases, systems and analytical tools to generate insights and intelligence.

Explore events through history and how they have been communicated from various perspectives and to varying degrees of truth. Develop your understanding of how history shapes our present-day political systems and economic infrastructure. Complement these studies with your Psychology minor, which trains you in the major areas of the contemporary scientific discipline, allowing you to understand how the personality dynamics and behavioural characteristics of key figures through history have played a part in shaping our modern world.

Our History with Psychology BA (Hons) allows you to realise the enormous variance of human experience, both individually and as societies.
Explore events through history and how they have been communicated from various perspectives and to varying degrees of truth. Develop your understanding of how history shapes our present-day political systems and economic infrastructure. Complement these studies with your Psychology minor, which trains you in the major areas of the contemporary scientific discipline, allowing you to understand how the personality dynamics and behavioural characteristics of key figures through history have played a part in shaping our modern world.

This innovative degree will give you critical thinking, communication and psychosocial expertise, transferable to careers in public and private sectors such as policymaking, marketing and communications, civil service and business.

Engage with the central questions, arguments theories and texts concerning the world and our place within it, developing rigour and clarity in your thinking and writing, alongside fellow students of the Philosophy major. Learn about the logic behind language and meaning, while studying topics such as ethics, metaphysics and aesthetics. Complement these studies by exploring the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial areas of contemporary scientific psychology.

The Philosophy with Psychology BA (Hons) combines the study of Philosophy and Psychology.
Engage with the central questions, arguments theories and texts concerning the world and our place within it, developing rigour and clarity in your thinking and writing, alongside fellow students of the Philosophy major. Learn about the logic behind language and meaning, while studying topics such as ethics, metaphysics and aesthetics. Complement these studies with the Psychology minor to consider the philosophical and ethical issues relating to individual differences in social behaviours, attitudes and feelings, while exploring the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial areas of contemporary scientific psychology.

This undergraduate degree equips you with a combination of communications, critical thinking and individual and social behaviour expertise highly prized in the evolving employment market.