BA English Literature and History
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in English Literature and History, an English Literature and History degree spanning centuries of cultural and societal development. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course culminates in an independent research project focusing on a self-selected literary or historical topic. In the first year, students build a foundation through core modules such as Literature in Time, Handling Historical Evidence, and Controversy in History, while also selecting from optional modules covering medieval and early modern worlds or modern worlds. The second year delves deeper through compulsory study in Critical Theory and Who Makes History, alongside optional pathways exploring topics like postcolonial literature, war and transformation, and British history. The final year centres on applied historical study through The Use and Abuse of History, supported by an array of optional modules ranging from contemporary literature and Shakespeare to the Cold War and a dedicated English Literature Dissertation.
Modules
- Literature in Time
- Handling Historical Evidence
- Controversy in History
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Global Governance and International Institutions
- The Arts and Identity (Discovery module)
- Thinking Globally (Discovery module)
- World Literatures
- Modern Worlds
- Critical Theory
- Who Makes History?
- Medieval to Early Modern Literature
- Literary Adaptation
- Postcolonial Literature
- War and Transformation
- Human and Environment
- American Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Body, Mind and Society
- Death
- Critical Practice
- Britain in the 20th Century
- Global Challenges and Collaborative Solutions (Discovery module)
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- The Use and Abuse of History
- Contemporary Literature
- Romanticism
- Literature and Environment
- Special Topics in Theory
- Participation, Splendour and Violence: The Italian City-States, c.1100-1350
- Paradise Lost: Colonisation and the Jamaican Environment, 1655-1838
- Victorian Bodies: Sex, Gender, Race and Power in Global Britain
- Forging India: South Asia from Empire to Nation, 1829-1964
- Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
- Fascism, Revolution and War in Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- A Global History of the Cold War
- English Literature Dissertation
- Austen and the Brontës
- Gothic and Science Fiction
- Shakespeare
- Modernism