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BA English Literature and History

University of East Anglia

Institution
University of East Anglia
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
_QV31
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB including English Literature or one of the subjects listed below.

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Literature and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. The programme includes a semester abroad or a short placement in a cultural, heritage or media organisation during the second year. Modules range from Anglo-Saxon and medieval studies to contemporary fiction and modern history.

Modules

  • ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
  • EPIC STORYTELLING AND ANCIENT MYTH
  • WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
  • THE RISE OF THE MACHINES: WRITING AND READING IN THE AGE OF AI
  • INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN HISTORY
  • INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
  • INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
  • HISTORY'S STORIES
  • VICTORIAN WRITING
  • CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • EUROPEAN LITERATURE
  • CRITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
  • MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
  • LITERATURE STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD (SPRING)
  • ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
  • EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
  • MODERNISM: THE ART OF EXPERIMENT
  • ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
  • LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
  • FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
  • NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
  • LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
  • GLOBAL SUPERPOWER: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1898
  • THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
  • BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
  • THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
  • THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
  • THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
  • PROPAGANDA
  • JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
  • DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
  • FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
  • SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD (SPRING SEMSTER)
  • GEORGIAN BRITAIN AND IRELAND
  • THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH POWER
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
  • NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET ENGLAND
  • STUART ENGLAND
  • THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
  • BRITISH INDIA: EMPIRE, NATION AND THE PEOPLE IN SOUTH ASIA
  • HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
  • HISTORY OF MODERN ITALY
  • THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
  • VICTORIAN BRITAIN
  • THE WRITING OF JOURNALISM (AUT)
  • CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
  • THE SHORT STORY (AUT)
  • ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
  • LGBT AND BEYOND: SEXUAL CULTURES, QUEER IDENTITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DESIRE
  • MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
  • READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
  • LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
  • MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
  • IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
  • THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
  • SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
  • BANNED BOOKS
  • MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
  • THE ART OF MURDER
  • THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
  • WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
  • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
  • THE REIGN OF LOUIS THE FAT: WAR, MURDER, & THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN EARLY TWELFTH-CENTURY FRANCE
  • THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1450 TO 1950
  • THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
  • TEACHING HISTORY
  • THE CULT OF VIOLENCE: THE FASCIST REGIMES OF ITALY, GERMANY AND JAPAN, 1922-1945
  • RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905-1921
  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPORT HISTORY
  • ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
  • CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
  • IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
  • THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
  • IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
  • FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
  • GRAND STRATEGY
  • BLOOD AND BRUTALITY: VIOLENCE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
  • APPEASEMENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
  • COMMUNISM AND NATIONALISM IN YUGOSLAVIA
  • CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
  • A NEW ORDER? THE 1980s BEYOND THATCHER
  • DISSERTATION IN HISTORY
  • LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (AUT)
  • LITERATURE DISSERTATION: POST-1789 (SPR)
  • LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (SPR)
  • LITERATURE DISSERTATION: (PRE-1789) (AUT)