the joint honours ba history and international relations course enables students to address today's key issues and investigate their roots in the past. explore both history and international relations and gain an understanding of how they influence one another.

discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the university of reading. the history department's expertise covers a wide and diverse range of regions, from europe and africa to america, south asia and the middle east. module choices cover diverse periods and topics, from the crusades to the 1960s, slavery in america to tudor monarchy, and cold war berlin to medieval magic.

in first year, core modules will explore people, politics and revolution – finding out how people struggled for power in past societies – and the culture and concepts those societies developed. by studying international relations, students will acquire a strong grounding in the fundamental elements of the subject such as political ideas and international relations theory. students will have the opportunity to gain a broad overview of the subject through a wide range of specialist core and optional modules, which cover topical issues such as european political integration, international terrorism and the middle east crisis.

placements are a prominent feature of this degree course and highly encouraged. through reading's links with the careers centre, students can source potential employers and get help with cvs and letters of application.