BA English and History
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The programme covers English literature from the Renaissance to the contemporary period and historical study from early modern to modern times. Study abroad opportunities are available through English Exchange modules.
Modules
- University English Literature: An Introduction
- Theory and Other Monsters
- Professional and Creative Writing: An Introduction
- Making History: Skills for Historians
- Defining America: Themes in American History, C17th -C20th
- The Making of Modern Britain and Ireland, 1798-1998
- The Ages of Extremes: International History 1914-2020
- Disenchanted Land? Culture and Society in Early Modern Europe
- Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1939
- Early Modern English Culture 1509-1659: Poetry, Prose, Drama
- Tales of the Familiar and the Exotic: The Beginnings of Modern Fiction in English
- Rhymes Of Passion: A Brief History Of Love Poetry
- Writing and Editing
- Modern Dramand Its Influences
- Sex and the City of God: religion and sexuality in American literature
- Angels, Madwomen and Whores
- Writing the North: Ulster Literature
- Contemporary World Fiction in English
- How It Is: Samuel Beckett Studies
- Adaptation and Historical Fiction
- Gothic and Romantic Writing
- English Exchange 1
- English Exchange 2
- English Exchange 3
- English Exchange 4
- English Exchange 5
- English Exchange 6
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Detective Fiction
- Writing and Publishing
- Exchange programme 1 - History Abroad
- Family, Sexuality and the State 1850-1925
- Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
- War and Peace: the Ying and Yang of human history
- The Great Powers and the Middle East since 1880
- Film and the Vietnam Conflict
- The Myth and Reality of Imperial Spain, 1492-1700
- Death, Disease, and Medicine in Britain, 1800-1914
- 'Good Trouble': Struggle, Resistance and the African American Experience
- The Modern City, 1800-2000
- English Placement
- English Abroad (DIAS)
- Black Lives Recovered and Remade
- The ‘Impact of Translation’ in Modern Irish and British Literature
- History Abroad - DIAS
- Industrial Placement - Diploma in Professional Practice (DPP)
- The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
- Late Soviet Communism, 1953-1991
- United States Foreign Policy Since 1945
- Saints and Sinners: Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland
- History Research Project
- Violence, death and disorder and the end of the European Empires.
- America in the Depression, 1929-1941
- Witchcraft and magic in early modern Europe and Colonial New England, c.1550-1780
- The Northern Ireland Troubles
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Twentieth-Century Literature
- How to be Modern: Writing from the Jazz Age, 1910-1930
- Dissertation
- Bonnets, Beards and Bastards: The Fiction of the Victorian Period
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Body, Mind and Soul in Novels and Non-Fiction from Addison to Austen
- The Ulster-Scots Literary Tradition 1750 - 2000
- From The Vote To The Pill: C20th And C21st Women's Writing
- Writing Ireland: Ulysses to Normal People
- Shakespeare
- Narratives of Slavery