History isn’t just about the past. The history of science, technology and medicine has a significant impact on modern day society and can even help us shape the future.
The history of science, technology and medicine helps us to understand how the society we live in came to be, and to appreciate different cultures. You’ll learn what history is, why it is important and how we study it. And in these courses, science, technology and medicine are seen in their historical context.
Your studies can also be the basis of a rewarding career. History graduates enter almost every type of organisation – industry and commerce, retail, finance and law – and a high proportion of them rise to the top of their profession.
Degrees
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Humanities
This degree allows you to combine modules on different aspects of the arts – what people thought, made and practised – and their meaning and values in the past and today. -
Open degree
The BA/BSc Open Degree is a qualification that gives you a huge choice in terms of subjects and modules that you study to make up your degree.
Diplomas of Higher Education
Certificates of Higher Education
Courses in History of Science, Technology and Medicine
See the list of all our individual courses in History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Postgraduate options
If you already have a degree, you may want to see postgraduate courses and qualifications in Arts and Humanities.
Subjects at the OU
Undergraduate subjects
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