BA English Literature and History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points from A levels or combination with Extended Project / BTEC / Cambridge Technical. A level: BCC IB: 28 points with English Higher at 4.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Project Management, and Fieldwork. The programme concludes with a 10,500-word dissertation on a self-chosen topic. Modules span from medieval and early modern periods through to the present day, and field trips are incorporated into the study of late-medieval culture.
Modules
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing the Present Moment
- Investigating Interpretation: Ideas in Literature From Marx to Barthes
- Conflicts and Controversies in Victorian Literature: Charlotte Brontë to Charles Dickens
- Making History
- War and Peace: Twentieth Century Europe and Global Conflict
- The United States: An Introduction (1763 – The Present)
- Agents of Change: Women's Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Approaches to Research
- Culture and Civilisation in Late Medieval England: C.1200-1550
- Enlightenment Europe: 1688-1789
- Environment and State in Britain Since 1945
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci Fi and Beyond
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Fascism and Post-Fascism in Europe
- From 'Angry Young Men' to Cool Britannia?: A Historical Analysis of British Cultural Activity After 1945
- Identity and Conflict in Russia and Eurasia
- Popes and Politics
- Re-Litigating the Past: State, Media and Historical Injustice in Contemporary Britain
- Renaissance to Restoration
- Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries
- Women and Gender: 1000-1600
- World Literature: Roots and Routes From Conrad to Afrofuturism
- British Culture Wars
- Dissertation
- European Literary Legacies: Writing the City
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Gothic, Romanticism and Women's Writing: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen
- The Cultural History of Death
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture From Freud to Žižek
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism