BA English Literature and History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff points: 104 A-level: BCC BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM T-level: Merit
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and History, combining literary study with historical analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course includes an independent research project or dissertation in the final year. Students have access to twelve miles of archives at The Hive and research trips to Worcester Cathedral Library.
Modules
- Britain since the Reformation
- Reconstructing the past: Academic, public and popular history
- Literary Forms and Genres
- Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing
- Writing Worcester Past and Present
- Exploring the Canon: Literary Theory and Practice
- Movement and Migration
- Politics, Sex and Identity in the Early Modern World
- Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen
- Gothic and Romantic Literature
- Spaces of Modernity
- Children’s Literature
- Work Project
- Historical research: Method and practice
- The American century, 1917-2001
- The German empire, 1862-1918
- History work experience module
- The Making of Modern Ireland: Conflict, Revolution and Partition
- 'A people's war'? Britain and the Second World War
- Georgian Britain and the Atlantic world, 1760-1820
- Heritage tourism and place promotion
- Independent Research Project (Dissertation equivalent module)
- Justice and Revenge: from Tragedy to the Western
- Postcolonial Encounters
- Writing and the Environment
- War and Conflict
- Gendering Voices
- Literatures and Cultures: International Explorations
- Queer Bodies, Queer Texts
- Metamorphoses: Literature and Adaptation
- The good war: The USA and World War Two
- The Atlantic slave trade and abolition
- Nazi Germany
- Research experience module
- Blood and Oil: Iraq since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
- Gender, sexuality and welfare: The body in history
- Witchcraft and the Devil
- Japan's world, 1854-1951