BA History of Art and Literature with a Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including English Literature or one of the below subjects:
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History of Art, examining how literary and visual cultures have influenced one another across historical periods and global contexts. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme spans four years including a mandatory year abroad and features placement opportunities at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Modules
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES YEAR ABROAD MODULE
- LEARNING ON SITE: THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS
- ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS
- INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
- ENVIRONMENT, ART AND CULTURE
- PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
- WRITING ACROSS BORDERS
- ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS
- EUROPEAN LITERATURE
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- MEDIEVAL WRITING: QUEST, FABLE AND ROMANCE (PRE-1789)
- ARTISTS/MUSEUMS
- EARLY MODERN WRITING 1600-1740: THE MAKING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (PRE-1789)
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING
- MODERNISM: THE ART OF EXPERIMENT
- VICTORIAN WRITING
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
- SHAKESPEARE (PRE-1789)
- CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION (SPR)
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- MAKING IT PUBLIC: PUBLISHING, AUDIENCE, & CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
- ROMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS: 1740-1830
- READING AND WRITING CONTEMPORARY POETRY
- THE ALCHEMY OF NATURE: ART, RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- DISSERTATION
- MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND
- IMAGINARY ENDINGS: BRITISH FICTION AND THE APOCALYPSE
- MYTHOS: REWRITING THE CLASSICS (PRE-1789)
- THE ART OF MURDER
- WOMEN'S WRITING IN EARLY-MODERN BRITAIN: THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP (PRE-1789)
- MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)
- DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- THE BIRTH OF THE GOTHIC: ROMANCE, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE
- SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORLDS (PRE-1789)
- BANNED BOOKS
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- DIGITAL STORYTELLING
- THE ART OF EMOTION: READING AND WRITING FEELING
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS