By combining History with Journalism, via this course, you will gain an intellectual and wide-ranging academic foundation, develop a critical understanding of the past and contemporary issues and learn the skills and knowledge to help you pursue a successful career in journalism. This programme aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of human history, and to provide you with an opportunity to examine aspects of journalism, and to gain a foundation for further training in journalism. Its history element encourages an analytical approach to the past, so that you may understand and contribute to historical controversies, and may understand ways in which the past is at least partly constructed in the present. It therefore hopes to train you intellectually so you can explain the relevance of the past in the present, can understand the problems of interpreting written and other evidence, and have skills of research, analysis, problem-solving, construction of argument and communication. By combining journalism with the study of history, it also hopes to produce potential journalists with relevant knowledge of key historical events, and an awareness of the role of the media in these developments. Graduates of this degree would be well prepared for further training in journalism: graduates from the history school have entered a wide range of employment: especially fields which require skills of communication, analysing large quantities of information, and understanding human nature. These include teaching, management and administration, librarianship, accountancy, law, the heritage industry and retail.