BA English Literature and History (Study Abroad)
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 (Study Abroad), an English Literature and History degree exploring the intersection of textual studies and historical inquiry. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The course includes a compulsory study abroad period at an international partner university during the third year. The first year introduces foundational approaches through modules such as Literature in Time, Handling Historical Evidence, and Controversy in History, alongside optional choices like Medieval and Early Modern Worlds and World Literatures. Second-year studies develop critical perspectives with compulsory modules including Critical Theory and Who Makes History?, supported by options such as Postcolonial Literature, War and Transformation, and Victorian Literature. Following the third-year international study placement, the final year allows students to examine advanced themes through compulsory work like The Use and Abuse of History, alongside options covering topics from Romanticism to Modernism and the opportunity to undertake the 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)
- Your Year Abroad
- 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