Computer Science and History
Computer science and history is an unusual combination that brings together the most rigorous quantitative discipline of the digital age with one of the most fundamental humanities subjects. Computer science is about fresh thinking, new opportunities, and innovative ideas that impact every aspect of society, as Liverpool Hope describes its degree, covering networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality among many other topics. History is the discipline that explains how the world came to be as it is, developing close reading of evidence, careful argument from sources, and an ability to understand human motivation and social change across time.
The two disciplines develop quite different but equally valuable modes of thinking.
Liverpool Hope University's four-year full-time Computer Science and History degree includes a foundation year and carries a typical entry tariff of 88 points. The programme also includes a sandwich year, a year abroad option, and work placement opportunities, giving you professional experience in computing or history-related roles and potentially an international dimension before you graduate. You will study core computer science across a wide range of technical areas alongside history across different periods and themes, building the complementary skills of logical, systematic thinking from computer science and interpretive, analytical thinking from history.
Graduates with this combination work in roles across the technology sector, heritage and digital humanities, archiving, education, journalism, and any environment where computing skills and historical or cultural literacy are both valued. The computing skills give graduates access to the strong graduate technology jobs market, while the history component offers depth of analytical thinking that many purely technical graduates lack. Postgraduate study in computer science, digital humanities, archiving, or history is a natural next step for those wanting to specialise.