BA English Literature and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including an A in English Literature (English Language and Literature is also acceptable) IB: 35 points including 6 in English Literature at Higher Level (Higher Level English Language and Literature is also acceptable) BTEC: DDD with an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in English Literature at grade A
About this course
BA (Hons) English Literature and Politics, a joint honours degree spanning English Literature and Politics. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a bridge module connecting both disciplines, leading to a bridge dissertation supervised jointly across departments. The first year introduces foundational concepts through modules such as Writing Modernity, Other Worlds, Political Analysis, and Introduction to Global Politics. The second year expands into broader thematic and historical studies via modules like Politics and the Novel, The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature, Theories of the State, and The Politics of Gender. Final-year students complete advanced study and independent research through modules including Bridge Dissertation with English Supervisor, Bridge Dissertation with Politics Supervisor, Knowledge and Democracy, and Governing the Global Economy.
Modules
- Writing Modernity
- Other Worlds
- Reading Now
- Political Analysis
- Introduction to Global Politics
- Introduction to Political Theory
- York Policy Lab
- Politics and the Novel
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Making the Modern: Global Literature in the Victorian Age
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
- Creative Writing: Contemporary Practice
- African Imaginations and Afrophone Literatures
- Against the Grain: European New Cinema
- Eros: The Literature and Philosophy of Love
- French Autofictions
- Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature
- Modern French and Francophone Literature
- Modern Latin American Literature
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- Old Norse Literature
- Post-War Italian Cinema
- The World of Beowulf
- Beyond the Book: Community Projects
- Things Fall Apart
- Politics of Development
- European Union Politics
- War and Peace
- IR Theory and Planet Politics
- Theories of the State
- The Politics of Gender
- Politics in the United Kingdom
- The Rising Powers
- Human Rights and Wrongs
- Research Design
- Bridge Dissertation with English Supervisor
- Bridge Dissertation with Politics Supervisor
- Black Writers of the Global Nineteenth Century
- Borders Bodies Bridges: Migration and Racialisation in Modern Literature and Culture
- Crafting the Past: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century
- Elemental: Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in English
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages and Modern Literature, 1840-1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Literature
- Spices and Spies: Renaissance Global Travel
- The Stuff of Poetry
- The Villains of Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
- Theatre with a Cause
- Knowledge and Democracy
- Governing the Global Economy
- Green Politics
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