BA English Literature and American Studies (Extended Degree)
Entry requirements
UCAS Tariff: 56 to 72 Tariff Points Subject requirements: There are no specific subject requirements for this course.
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing, combining literary studies with American culture and history. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Design & Creative Practice, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The programme offers opportunities to engage with the heritage industry through school field trips, guest lecturers, and academic partnerships.
Modules
- Humanities Portfolio: Skills for University
- Trigger-happy: The Language and Literature of Offence and Discrimination
- Encounters that shape our worlds
- Public Humanities: Academic Research in the Wider World
- War and Words
- Tyrants and Dictators: Authoritarianism in History
- Introduction to American Studies
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Representing the US: From Slavery to Terrorism
- Concepts in Criticism and Culture
- Talking Texts
- Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit)
- American Studies Extended Essay
- Early Modern Cultures
- Modernism and Modernity
- Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism
- America in the 1960s
- Setting America Right: Conservatism in the United States, 1933 - 2016
- People’s Histories: Independent Research Project
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Representing Political Violence
- Media Industries
- Media, Power and Identity
- Researching Audiences
- Genre: Critical and Creative Approaches
- Musicals: Politics, Performance and Popular Culture
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Humanities Work Placement Year
- Humanities Study Abroad Year
- Red, White and Green: The American Environment Through Time
- Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities
- Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context
- History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War
- Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture
- Shaking up Shakespeare
- Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present
- Writing and Environment
- Victorian Sensation Fiction
- Staging Early Modern Gender
- The African American Freedom Struggle Since 1945
- Joint Honours Dissertation
- Nicaragua in Revolution, 1979-1990
- Dissertation with Public History
- Experimental Film
- Transnational Cinemas
- Media and Society Case Studies
- Event Cultures
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University