BSc History and English
Entry requirements
A level: CCC - CDD
About this course
BSc (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme features an integrated placement year, field trips to historical sites, and hands-on research in local archives. Modules cover Contemporary Britain, Global History in Perspective, and students complete a History dissertation in their final year.
Modules
- The Novel Through Time
- Stylistics
- Introduction to Language Study
- Global History in Perspective
- Making Histories I: Methods, Theories, Controversies
- Contemporary Britain: from the Boer War to Brexit
- Case Studies in Global History
- Making Histories II
- Reading and Society
- Written Text Analysis
- Language at Work
- Language in the News Media
- Post-apocalyptic Fiction
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
- Literature in Film
- English Language Teaching
- Spoken Discourse Analysis
- Advanced Topics in Sociolinguistics
- Working with Language Data
- Humanitarian Action and Foreign Intervention, 1915 – today
- The Atlantic World: Slavery and Emancipation
- Bullets, Bombs, and Bitcoin: History and Technology since 1900
- Integrated Placement Year
- History Workshop
- Dissertation (History)
- Dissertation (English)
- Leadership and Management Communication
- Advanced Leadership and Management Communication
- Cognition and Style
- Marriage and Literature: Class, Race, Gender and Money
- Ghouls, Goths and Vampires
- Language and Literature in Education
- Corpus Linguistics
- Creative Writing
- Language as Evidence
- Twin Periods? The Interwar Years and post-1989 History
- Emotions, International Politics and Culture from the 19th Century to the Present
- Teaching History in the 21st Century
- Reinventing the World: Industrial and Technological Transitions
- The History of Internationalism: From Karl Marx to Greta Thunberg
- The History and Politics of Decolonisation