BA English Literature and History (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 History. Core topics include Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, and Research Methods. Students can undertake an optional study abroad period.
Modules
- Humanities Portfolio: Skills for University
- The Force of Suspicion: Scandals, Rumours and 'Fake News' in History
- Trigger-happy: The Language and Literature of Offence and Discrimination
- Public Humanities: Academic Research in the Wider World
- War and Words
- Tyrants and Dictators: Authoritarianism in History
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Talking Texts
- Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present
- The Making of Contemporary Europe
- Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1200-1720
- Making History
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University
- Early Modern Cultures
- Modernism and Modernity
- Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism
- Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960
- America in the 1960s
- Your Graduate Future
- Into the Dark Valley: Europe, 1919-1939
- The Holocaust
- Enlightenment to Empire: France in an Age of Revolution, 1715-1815
- Civilians and the Second World War
- Setting America Right: Conservatism in the United States, 1933 - 2016
- Divisive Pasts: Legacies of Conflict and Oppression in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Early Modern Monarchies: Power and Representation, 1500-1750
- Field Notes: Politics and Policy Making in Place
- Migration Nation: Britain’s History of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Race
- People Power before Democracy: The United Kingdom, 1790-1914
- People’s Histories: Independent Research Project
- Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder
- 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
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Women, Crime and Subversion in Early Modern Europe
- Italian Fascism
- Joint Honours Dissertation
- Sex and the City: Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Holocaust Testimony and Cultural Memory
- Environmental disaster in modern Britain
- Nicaragua in Revolution, 1979-1990
- Russia Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Gorbachev to Putin, 1985-2008
- Dissertation with Public History
- From Grand Tours to Dirty Weekends: Travellers and Tourists in Britain, Ireland and Beyond
- Ending the British Empire, 1930 – now
- Skills for Academic Success in a UK University