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BA English and History (Full-time) (

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Institution
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and History (Full-time) (BA Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QV31
Typical offer
UCAS 96-112

Entry requirements

96-112 UCAS Tariff Points

About this course

BA (Hons) in English and History. Core topics include Social & Cultural Analysis and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme is taught through small-group seminars focused on discussion and analysis. Students select from optional modules including creative writing and complete an Independent Creative Project in their final year.

Modules

  • Exploring the Humanities
  • Historicising Texts
  • Introduction to the Craft of Writing
  • Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
  • Popular Fiction
  • The Study of Literature: Text and Theory
  • People’s worlds: Interactions with the Environment
  • The Modern World
  • Doing History: Past in Practice
  • Everyday Life in Athens and Rome
  • The Medieval World
  • What makes civilisation?
  • Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
  • Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
  • Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
  • The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
  • Writing for TV, Film and Radio
  • Independent Creative Project
  • A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
  • Novel writing
  • Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
  • Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
  • Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
  • (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
  • Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
  • Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
  • Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
  • Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
  • The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
  • Britain and the Great War
  • Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
  • Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
  • Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
  • From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
  • Global Governance
  • Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
  • Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict
  • Medieval Prose in Wales
  • Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
  • Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
  • Women and Religion
  • Religions in Africa
  • Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
  • The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
  • Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
  • Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
  • Museums, Heritage and Representation
  • Global Genocides
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
  • ‘War made the State and the State made War’: Politics and Warfare in the Modern Age
  • From the Death of Stalin to the Oil Crises. Life in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
  • Looking at the Age of Extremes: The Cultural History of 20th century Europe
  • Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
  • The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
  • African Modernities
  • Ancient Lives in Death
  • Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020
  • Thinking Through History - Independent Project
  • Heritage Project
  • Independent Project
  • Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
  • The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
  • Novel writing
  • Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
  • The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
  • Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
  • Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
  • Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
  • (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
  • Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
  • Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
  • Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
  • Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
  • The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
  • Britain and the Great War
  • Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
  • Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
  • Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
  • From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
  • Global Governance
  • Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
  • Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict
  • Medieval Prose in Wales
  • Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
  • Women and Religion
  • Religions in Africa
  • Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
  • The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
  • Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
  • Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
  • Museums, Heritage and Representation
  • Medicines and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
  • Global Genocides
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
  • ‘War made the State and the State made War’: Politics and Warfare in the Modern Age
  • From the Death of Stalin to the Oil Crises. Life in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
  • Looking at the Age of Extremes: The Cultural History of 20th century Europe
  • Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
  • Ancient Lives in Death
  • African Modernities
  • Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020