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BA English and History

University of Lincoln

Institution
University of Lincoln
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA (Hons) English and History
UCAS code
QV31
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 29

Entry requirements

A level: BBC IB: 29 points overall

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History, combining the study of literature with its historical contexts. Core topics include Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Research Methods. The course includes a dissertation in the final year, with a preparatory module covering research design and project management. Modules span from medieval to contemporary periods, examining literature alongside political and social change.

Modules

  • Humanities in a Digital World
  • Texts in Time: Medieval to Romantic
  • Texts in Time: Victorian to Contemporary
  • The Historian’s Craft
  • Britain in the Making: A History of Early Modern and Modern Britain
  • Empires: Power and Resistance
  • Designing your Independent Study
  • Dis-Locations: the Literature of Late Capitalism
  • Theory Wars
  • Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
  • Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
  • Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World
  • American Literature I
  • American Literature II
  • Britons and Romans, 100 BC-AD 450
  • Classical Indian Philosophy L5
  • Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
  • Collections Care and Management
  • Decolonising the Past
  • Ethics and the Meaning of Life
  • Existentialism and Phenomenology
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
  • From King Alfred to the Anarchy: Society, Politics and State-building in England, 871-1153
  • Humanities in Action
  • Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
  • Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
  • Industry Placement
  • Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Second Year)
  • Literature of the Fin de Siècle
  • Living and dying in the middle ages, 800-1400
  • Making and Meaning; History through Objects
  • Medieval Literature
  • Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
  • People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
  • Power and the Presidency in the United States
  • Queering the Past
  • Reading the 'Global'
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration Literature
  • Romanticism: Literature 1780-1830
  • Screen Cultures in History: From the BBFC to BTS
  • Sport and Society in the Modern World
  • Study Period Abroad - English
  • Study Period Abroad: History
  • Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
  • The Arthurian Myth
  • The British Civil Wars: Experiencing and Remembering a Revolution
  • The Global Cold War
  • The Global Renaissance
  • The Philosophy of Language L5
  • The Tudor and Stuart World
  • The World of the Crusades
  • Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
  • Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
  • The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • A Dream Deferred: Class in American Literature
  • Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
  • Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World (Third Year)
  • Britons And Romans, 100 BC-AD 450 (third year)
  • Chivalry in Medieval Europe
  • Classical Indian Philosophy
  • Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
  • Consuming Societies: Western Europe 1600-1800
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Curatorial Practice
  • Digital Heritage Tools and Techniques
  • Eugenics, Race and Reproduction across the Atlantic, 1800-1945
  • Exhibiting the World in the Nineteenth Century
  • Existentialism and Phenomenology
  • Fallout Nation: The United States and the Nuclear Age
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • Global Literatures and Health
  • Gothic in Literature and Film
  • Gothic Visions: Stained Glass in Britain c. 1220-1960
  • Growing Up and Growing Old: Youth and Age across the Nineteenth Century
  • Heroes and Villains: The Reigns of Richard ‘the Lionheart’ (d. 1199) and ‘Bad’ King John (d. 1216)
  • History Independent Study Part 2
  • History Independent Study Part I
  • Hong Kong since 1841: From British colony to Chinese city
  • Humanities Work Placement
  • Independent Study: English
  • Literature and the Visual, 1770–1900
  • Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
  • Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
  • Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
  • Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
  • Queering the Past - Level 3
  • Renaissance Cities
  • Revolutionary Ideas in Tudor and Stuart Britain: Republicanism, Regicide and Liberty
  • Shakespeare I
  • Shakespeare II
  • Single Author Study A
  • Single Author Study B
  • Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice - level 3
  • The City and the Citizen: urban space and the shaping of modern life, 1850 to present.
  • The Internet: A Social and Cultural History
  • The Literature of Childhood
  • The Philosophy of Language L6
  • The US Civil Rights Movement
  • Twenty-First Century British Fiction
  • Un/freedoms in Caribbean Colonial Societies