BA English Literature and History
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in English Language and Literature and History, an interdisciplinary programme that combines English literature and historical study. Core topics include Research Methods, Design & Creative Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The degree features a Research Project in English Literature and History and modules covering the early medieval period through to the recent past.
Modules
- Evidence and Argument
- Doing Criticism
- Global Middle Ages
- Stuff: living in a material world
- Global Ancient Histories
- Historical Sources and Methods
- History Lab I
- History Lab II
- Introduction to Public History
- What is History For?
- Transformations
- Beginnings
- Revolutions
- Research Project in English Literature and History
- Sacred words and dirty deeds: Thriving in Late Antiquity
- The Mediterranean: a connected past
- Africa: History of a Continent
- Oral History of Modern Britain
- 1968: A Global Moment?
- Crafting History: Developing a Research Proposal
- War, Wounds, and Disabilities in Global Perspectives
- Famines in History
- History and Film: Representing the Past
- Researching History
- Reformation and Revolution: Tudors to the Georgians
- Destroying Nature: Disasters, Diseases and Environmental Injustice
- Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History
- Politics in Britain: National Life since 1945
- Renaissance Bodies
- Writing New Worlds, 1688-1789
- Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
- Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
- Contemporary Cultures
- Creative Practice
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Poetry Workshop
- Theatre Script Workshop
- Prose Workshop
- Screenwriting Workshop
- Literatures of Decolonisation
- Early 20th Century American Literature
- Medieval Worlds, 1100-1500
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 1)
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 2)