History - Unlimited opportunities
Study abroad
As a History or American Studies student, you will have the
exciting opportunity to study abroad, either in the United States
or Europe. Student exchanges form an established part of the
History and American Studies programmes, with students having the
option of an exchange, usually in the first semester of their
second year. We currently have exchange partnerships with
Union College, Schenectady, New York, http://www.union.edu/, Juniata College,
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, http://www.juniata.edu/, Pacific
University, near Portland, Oregon, http://www.pacificu.edu/ and Vrije
University, Amsterdam, http://www.vu.nl/en/. Those
students who undertook exchanges acknowledged that it enriched
their university experience, both academically and in terms of
their wider personal development. Even if you don’t go on exchange,
as a History or American Studies student here, you will meet a
number of international students on your modules (we had 60
international students registered on our modules this year).
Back home
As part of her new course on Italian Renaissance Court Culture,
Dr Sarah Bercusson took her students to the Victoria &
Albert Museum in London http://www.vam.ac.uk/.
Record: A film in three sections on the Hull fishing
industry
In addition, last year Dr Ian Horwood and his
students engaged in a cross-Faculty project with the Linguistics
team, on a collaborative project with the nationally-renowned Film
Archive, the Yorkshire Film Archive.
Entitled ’Archiving the Future’, this project resulted in film
shorts about the Hull Fishing industry. The project contributed to
the Faculty of Arts Create 11, which is a public showcase event for
our students. It enabled our students to get direct
experience of working with digital media archive footage and film
archivists, film makers and to create new film documents using
found and new materials. The project enabled students to develop
their interview techniques and presentational skills via the
interviews they undertook with members of the Hull fishing
communities.
Find out more about this project
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