Students undertake a range of modules including 3 core modules and 3 special studies chosen from several different options; core modules include: new histories; research methodology; the dissertation presentation; independent study modules; examples of special studies: the history of Anglo-Saxon Wessex; political behaviour in the early middle ages; gender and history 1500-2007; allegiance and ideas in southern England 1640-1680; English religion 1660-1829; sport and leisure in Victorian Britain; public health and medicine in modern Japan 1868-1952; ‘the good war’: the United States and World War II.