Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. If students want to understand the past to prepare for their future in a changing world, studying History is the way forward.

Staff at the University of Birmingham teaching in both Anthropology and History have an outstanding international reputation for excellence in both teaching and research, providing students with valuable skills in analysis, research, reasoning, time-management and being able to present themselves confidently orally and in writing.  

This undergraduate degree course aims to cover modern, early modern and medieval Britain, Europe and the wider world alongside the critical, comparative perspective offered by anthropology.  Whatever the students' interests - whether global, cultural, social, military, diplomatic, political, economic, military or religious history - there is someone in the department teaching their kind of history. Moreover, historians in other departments in the University of Birmingham expand the range of courses on offer, notably in the fields of Byzantine and African history. After a thorough grounding of modules in the first year of the degree course, the University of Birmingham offers a wide range of optional modules to study in subsequent years, culminating in a final year dissertation.