Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - History (V100)

The innovative BA History programme provides highly engaging treatments of not only historical events and historical periods in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, but also of the very practice of history as an academic discipline itself. The programme’s curriculum is embedded in a variety of powerful conceptual frameworks used by academic experts and students, such as postcoloniality and decoloniality. BA History at SOAS, therefore, fosters a critical, global perspective that expands and deepens the frontiers of historical knowledge.

The BA History programme encourages students to develop their knowledge of the regional histories of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East from these regions’ local perspectives and in these regions’ own terms. In this transformative, decolonial way, students will be able to then link these histories to the history of the world, and make critical sense of past, present, and possible futures.