BA English and History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including one of the following subjects: English (Literature, Language, or both), any Language subject, Geography, History, Classical Civilisation, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies or Sociology. IB: 32 (6,5,5 HL) to include one of the following subjects at Higher Level: English (Literature, Language or both), any Language subject, Geography, History, Philosophy, Global Politics, Psychology, World Religions, Social and Cultural Anthropology. BTEC: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma DDM plus an A level grade B in a required subject. BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus one A Level in a required subject at Grade B. BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate: D plus two A levels at Grades BB including one required subject. Preferred BTEC: Performing Arts, Art & Design, Digital Film and Video Production, Business IT, Applied Science, Sport, Sport and Exercise Science, Health & Social Care.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and History, an English degree bridging literary studies and historical analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Global & Comparative Perspective. Students can undertake a professional placement year or study overseas before completing their final year. The first year builds foundations through Writing in History, Narrative Forms, The Atlantic World: The Americas, Europe and Africa since the 15th Century, and What is History? (20 credits). Year two continues with Nation and Empire: Sources of British History, Research Design, Victorian Literature, Love and Life in Stuart-Era Literature (1603-1714), Modernisms, and Literature from 1990. Optional modules across the course allow study in areas such as creative writing, film studies, politics, and modern languages. Final-year students complete either an English Dissertation or a Dissertation, alongside optional modules including Feminist Philosophy, Adapting Shakespeare, and The Soviet Security State, 1917-present.
Modules
- Writing in History
- Narrative Forms
- The Atlantic World: The Americas, Europe and Africa since the 15th Century
- What is History? (20 credits)
- Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to Film
- Analysing Poetry: Metre, Form and Meaning
- Slavery to Black Lives Matter: African American Culture 1840 - present
- Art and visual culture since 1850
- Theory Matters: Critiquing Inequalities
- The Making and Unmaking of the World Order (20 credit)
- University-wide Language Programme
- Nation and Empire: Sources of British History
- Research Design
- Victorian Literature
- Love and Life in Stuart-Era Literature (1603-1714)
- Modernisms
- Literature from 1990
- Your Future Career: Preparing for the World of Work
- History of Political Thought (10 credit)
- Modern China in a Global Perspective
- Victorian Values Reconsidered
- African States and Nations: Before and After Colonialism, 1850-1990
- Weird Fiction
- Maps and Motors
- Animal Tales: Non-human Animals in Fiction, Film and Philosophy
- The American Century: US Politics and Society in the 20th Century
- From Rebellion to Partition: British India, 1857-1947
- University-wide Language Programme
- English Dissertation
- Dissertation
- University-wide Language Programme
- Radicals and Reactionaries: Writing Women in 1890s
- Cruel and Unusual: Punishment on trial in American Culture
- Neo-Victorianism
- Adapting Shakespeare
- Driving On: Writing Towards Publication
- Love, Poetry and War: The Modern Poet from Eliot to Plath
- Feminist Philosophy
- Jim Crow, Bootleggers and Okies: American Culture 1865-1940
- The Soviet Security State, 1917-present
- After Empire: South Asia since 1945
- Special Relationship? Anglo-American Relations since 1900
- Empire, War, and Popular Culture in Britain, c.1880-1914