BA English and History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(English),5,5 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English and History. Core topics include Historical Research, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Data Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Exploring History 1
- Exploring History 2
- History and Historians: Contested Pasts
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
- The American South 1619-1865
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Ireland since partition
- The American South, 1865-1980
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
- The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
- The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
- Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
- Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
- Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
- Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
- Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- America's Aftermaths
- Revolution and Disaster in Ireland and Britain 1603-1707
- An Age of Revolutions: Britain and Ireland, 1688-1815
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- Cities and Edgelands
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
- The Origins of Protestantism
- The Soviet Union 1921-1991
- Televising the Victorians
- The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
- Language in the Media
- Working Class Communities in the UK 1900-1970
- Dissertation
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants
- Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe
- Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland
- The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Thatcher's Britain
- Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
- The Ancient City
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Pop Culture and Protest in U.S. History
- Twentieth-Century China
- Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
- Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
- War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
- African and Irish Relations in the Americas
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now