BA English and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The degree offers a placement year, with previous students placed in publishing, museums, schools and government departments. A module dedicated to London's literary heritage is also available.
Modules
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- The Reader’s Toolkit
- The Writer's Toolkit
- Literary London
- Literature and History
- World Literature
- Writing and Difference
- Historians and their Craft
- Professional Life
- Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa
- Contemporary Fiction: Britain and Ireland
- Fascist Italy, 1919-1945: Revolution, Conflict and Collapse
- Genre Fiction
- Insurgency and Counter-insurgency
- Issues in American Politics
- Literary Movements: Modernism
- Literature and Revolution: Romanticism
- Military History and Strategic Thought from the Ancients to the Present
- National Security Intelligence
- Struggles for Emancipation
- Postcolonial Writing
- Texts and Afterlives: Shakespeare
- The First World War: Causes, Course, Consequences
- The Novel: The Nineteenth Century
- The State and Revolution
- Advanced Research Skills for History
- Dissertation
- English Special Project
- Author Study
- Literature and Identity
- Literature, Culture, Society: The Victorians
- Marx and the Critique of Political Economy
- Post-War and Late Twentieth-Century Literature 1945 - 2001
- Primary Source Workshop
- Slavery and Abolition
- Special Topic: Violence
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- The Second World War
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa