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BA English Literature and History

University of Huddersfield

Institution
University of Huddersfield
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and History BA(Hons)
Duration
3-4 years
Typical offer
A-level BBB, UCAS 104-120

Entry requirements

BBB-BCC at A Level. 120-104 UCAS tariff points from a combination of Level 3 qualifications. Merit at T Level. DMM-MMM in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma. Merit in UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma. Merit in RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma. Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits at Merit or above. 120-104 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications.

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, and Global & Comparative Perspective. An optional placement year of up to 48 weeks in a graduate-level role or enterprise project is available. The course includes archival research at Heritage Quay and the University Archive, and requires a final-year dissertation.

Modules

  • Arts and Humanities Placement
  • Portfolio Sandwich Year
  • Enterprise Placement
  • Dissertation
  • Humanities Showcase
  • Voices of the Holocaust
  • Henry's Empire
  • The Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance and Memory in Wartime France
  • The Elizabethan Age
  • The Great War: Culture and Society
  • Making the Peace: 1918-1924
  • The Body and the City
  • Twentieth Century Poetry
  • Extraordinary Gentlemen: Masculinity and Popular Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
  • World Literature
  • Professional Writing
  • History of English
  • Introduction to English Literature
  • Medieval and Early Modern Sources and Approaches
  • Critical Thinking
  • Twentieth Century Britain
  • Researching the Humanities
  • Investigating the Archive
  • Work Experience Placement
  • Refugees in Modern World HIstory
  • Reformation and Revolution
  • Growing Up in the Past: Oral Histories of Childhood and Youth
  • Hitler's Germany: Life and Death in the Third Reich
  • Modern India: from Raj to Independence c.1860-1950
  • American Poetry from the 19th Century to the Present Day
  • Shakespeare Now and Then
  • From Spoken Work to Searchable Data
  • Twentieth Century Fiction
  • The Gothic