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BA English Literature and History

Northumbria University

Institution
Northumbria University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and History BA (Hons)
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
QV31
Typical offer
A-level CA, UCAS 96-112

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff: 96 to 112 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, combining literary study with historical inquiry. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, and Communication & Writing. Students can choose to study abroad for a semester.

Modules

  • 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