BA Joint Hons English & History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB Year 2 entry: AAA-ABB IB: 32-30 Year 2 entry: 36-32
About this course
BA (Hons) Joint Honours in English and History. Core topics include research methods, historical research, and critical and analytical thinking. Oral history training is compulsory for students using it in their dissertation, and historiography is required for those progressing to Honours level study. The programme includes a work placement of at least 60 hours in a professionally related setting.
Modules
- English 1A & 1B
- History 1A
- History 1B
- Writing Through Time 1&2
- The Construction of Scotland
- Making the Modern Human
- Scotland: Renaissance & Reformation
- Disease & Society
- History of Scotland 1700-1832
- Modern Europe
- The American Novel
- Victorian Literature
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Sex, Revenge & Corruption in Renaissance Drama
- The Body: Theories & Representations
- English & Creative Writing Work Placement
- Writing Short Fiction & Poetry
- Dramatic Writing
- Oral History: Theory & Practice
- Religion Behind the Iron Curtain
- Disability in Modern Britain
- Medicine & Warfare
- France at War
- Propaganda & War in the 20th Century
- Historiography
- Communism in Practice: the Case of Czechoslovakia
- Genocide in the 20th Century
- Society & Politics in Colonial India: 1880s-1947
- Scotland’s Highland Problem
- Scottish Society Since 1914
- Writing Gender in Contemporary Literature
- 21st Century Science Fiction
- Victorian Gothic
- Wild in the Renaissance
- The Scramble for the Middle East: Arab Nationalism, Zionism & European Colonial Powers, 1914-1939
- Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia
- Rwanda: Peace, Conflict & the Politics
- Plantation in Ulster
- France at War, 1870-1962
- Medicine & Warfare in the Twentieth Century
- Scottish Society
- Society & Politics in Colonial India