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Undergraduate courses
War Studies
Investigate the nature of war
Discover our War Studies courses here, or find out more at an Open Day.
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Discover the global impact of war, how wars begin, and how they are fought.
Studying War Studies can lead to career paths including historical research, the armed forces, journalism, heritage, law, the Civil Service, international aid, and more.
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Top 10 in the student-voted University of the Year award (What Uni Student Choice Awards 2024)
Course
War Studies and History BA (Hons)
This Joint Honours degree combines War Studies with History to give you a deep insight into the nature of war. Explore how wars have been fought through the ages, and the wider social, cultural and political implications of conflict. Study war...
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Voted number 1 in Yorkshire and the Humber for our lecturers and teaching quality (What Uni Student Choice Awards 2024)
War gaming
A war game is a device for modelling real life conflicts in order to facilitate research and understanding. As American veteran game designer and military consultant Jim Dunnigan put it, “A war game is a combination of game, history and science. It is a paper time machine.” In the Year 1 Introduction to War Studies module, we use a simulation developed by Professor Philip Sabin of King's College London to help our students engage with the strategies of the Second World War. This has proved extremely popular with past students, to the extent that they repeated the exercise in their own time!
Our research
The War Studies team are experts in their specialist fields and regularly publish with British and international journals and publishers. Teaching on the War Studies course is research-led, which means that you are always at the cutting edge of our investigations.
Our research specialisms include:
- The logistics and economics of war
- Conscription
- The social impact of war
- Nuclear strategy
- Asymmetric warfare
Learning beyond the classroom
We work with organisations in York which offer fantastic opportunities to work on city-focused projects. Our connections include York Museums Trust and Yorkshire and North East Film Archive, where students have explored the archives to create exhibitions about York's Roman past or produce online resources that depict the filmed history of the City. On the Year 2 module, The Face of Battle, you will have the chance to visit various sites to explore the sharp end of conflicts which have left their mark on North Yorkshire, from the Wars of the Roses to the World Wars.
