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BA English Literature and History with a Placement Year

University of East Anglia

Institution
University of East Anglia
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English Literature and History with a Placement Year
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
_QV3P
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 with a Placement Year. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. This four-year course includes a placement year and an optional semester abroad. Students select modules from both disciplines, spanning periods from Anglo-Saxon England to the modern era.

Modules

  • HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
  • 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)
  • 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)