BA English Literature and History (Placement Year)
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 (Placement Year), an English Literature and History degree combining the study of literary texts with historical investigation. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course includes a dedicated work-based placement year in the third year, allowing students to gain professional experience in an industrial or sectoral role. The first year introduces foundational approaches through Literature in Time, Handling Historical Evidence, and Controversy in History, alongside optional modules covering medieval worlds, politics, and world literatures. The second year deepens critical analysis with Critical Theory and Who Makes History?, supported by optional topics ranging from postcolonial literature to twentieth-century Britain. The third year consists entirely of the professional placement. The final year centres on advanced study through modules such as The Use and Abuse of History, alongside a wide range of optional choices spanning contemporary literature, Romanticism, and global history, as well as an independent 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)
- 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)
- Work Based Learning Year
- 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