BA English Literature and History,
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. This joint honours degree covers literature and history across more than 1,500 years. Students may take a Year Abroad, a Year in Industry, or spend a semester studying abroad in destinations including the USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong, or Singapore.
Modules
- Discovering Literature
- Premodern Voices
- From Facts to Fake News: Being a Historian in the Twenty-First Century
- O Ffeithiau i Newyddion Ffug: Bod yn Hanesydd yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain
- Global Challenges and the Historian
- Heriau Byd-eang a'r Hanesydd
- Fundamentals of Creative Writing I
- Theorising Gothic Texts
- Who Sings America? Literature and Culture of the United States
- Approaches to Gender in English Literature
- Making Modern Europe, 1789 to the Present
- Creu Ewrop Fodern, 1789 hyd y Presennol
- Medieval Matters: Exploring the Middle Ages
- The Past in its Place: History and Heritage Field Trip
- The Early Modern World, 1500-1800
- Y Byd Modern Cynnar, 1500-1800
- The Practice of History
- America in a Nutshell: A History of Pennsylvania from William Penn to Donald Trump, 1631-2016
- The Making of Transatlantic America
- The Heirs of Rome: The Making of Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam in the Early Middle Ages, 400-800
- Rhyfel Cartref America
- Europe 1500-1650: Renaissance, Reformation and Religious War
- Disunited Kingdom? Class, Race, Gender and Social Division in Twentieth-Century Britain
- The Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1225
- Re-Thinking the South: Southern Culture and History, 1865-1955
- The Past in the Present: Exploring Heritage Practice and Debates
- Medicine and the Modern World, 1800 to the Present
- Britain in the Early Middle Ages: Slavery, Dragons, Queens and Vikings
- History Work Placement
- The Story of America on Film and Television, 1607-1867
- Stori America Ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1607-1867
- The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire
- The Global First World War
- Debating Texts: Theory in Literature
- Revolution of the Word: Modernism
- Exploring the Bloody Chamber: Medieval to Postmodern
- Fragments of Union: The Cultural Making and Breaking of Britain
- Contentious Shakespeare
- Medieval Encounters
- Introduction to Writing Poetry
- Introduction to Writing Fiction
- Race and Ethnicity: American Perspectives
- Techniques of Seeing
- Introduction to Writing Drama
- American Word / American Image
- Writing a Short Film
- Dissertation - English Literature
- History Dissertation
- Welsh Gothic / Gothic Wales
- Written in Blood: Reading the Vampire
- Graphic Novel
- African American Literature 1910-1940: The Harlem Renaissance
- Chaucer
- Madness, Malady and Melancholia: Literature and Medicine from Genesis to Genomes
- The Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize Module
- Beyond Shakespeare
- Philosophy and Literature
- Further Fiction Writing
- Further Creative Non Fiction
- Creative Writing Personal Project
- Further Poetry Writing
- The Lights that Failed: the League of Nations and International Peace 1919 -1939
- The Hungry World: Food, Famine and the End of Empire, 1880-1945
- The Reign of King John, 1199-1216: Misrule and Magna Carta
- The First Crusade: Devotion, Piety and Power in the Latin Christian World
- Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval
- The Russian Civil War
- The Placing of History: Digitally Mapping the Historic Past
- The Story of the USA on Film and Television, 1865-2008
- Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and Society in Western Political Thought
- The American Civil War in History and Memory
- Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy lygaid y Cymry
- A History of Sex and Gender
- The Cold War
- The Rise and Fall of Wales? Politics, Culture and Society, 1847-1939