BA (Hons) English and History

• GCSE: For all applicants, Grade C or above, or Grade 4 under newly reformed GCSE grading, in English Language, or equivalent. Please note the University does not accept Level 2 Key Skills, Functional Skills or Certificates in Adult Numeracy and Literacy as suitable alternatives to GCSEs.
• A-level subjects: No specific subjects required. Points from A-Level General Studies and AS-Level subjects (not taken onto full A-Level) can be included towards overall tariff. You must have a minimum of two A-Levels.
• Relevant subjects: English, History, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences
• EDEXCEL (BTEC) Diploma: No specific subjects required.
• Access: Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma; to include 30 level 3 credits at merit.
• Baccalaureate IB: No specific subjects required.

Year one

In your first year, modules are designed to build on your current abilities and enjoyment of literature and history.

• Creativity, Critique and Literature
• Literature and Ideas
• Sources for Courses: History and Evidence
• British History from the Black Death to the Present Day.

Year two

As you progress, you will hone your written and presentation skills. Enhanced research skills will help you to develop informed opinions on literature and historical sources - from Romanticism to the 21st Century Superpowers. Throughout you will be challenged by the latest methods of critical analysis and encouraged to develop an independent approach.

• Forms of Reading/Reading Forms.

Plus one of the following English modules:

• Shakespeare's World of Words
• Romanticism Unbound
• Exploring the Eighteenth Century
• British Writing 1900-1950
• Victorian Frictions
• Imagining America: Cultural and Literary Legacies of the United States, 1830-1970.

Plus two of the following History modules:

• Project Management in History *
• Public History: Representations of the Past, 1400 to the Present
• Enterprise and Society: the Rise and Fall of Superpowers
• Crime and Protest, 1750-1930
• The First English Empire - Britain, Ireland and France, c. 1000-1540
• Themes in the Social and Political History of Fascism: Europe, 1890-1945
• The Making of Modern South Africa: Segregation, the State, and the Origins of Apartheid 1820-1948
• Problems of Power: US History from 1776-Present
• Politics and Society in Ireland since 1750
• Men and Women in Imperial Britain c. 1700-1800
• Divine Right, Regicide and Revolution: Politics in Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1509-1689

If you choose to study on the four year sandwich route, you will spend your third year on placement. The curriculum in the second year provides support for the process of securing this.

Final year

In your final year, you can choose to focus on a specific topic of interest with the option to do an English Independent Project or History dissertation (or equivalent). You cannot take both of these modules together.

• English Independent Project*
• Children's Fiction Since 1900
• Fiction in Britain since 1970
• Literature and Culture in Britain 1885-1930
• Contemporary American Narrative
• Gothic Literature
• Moving Words: Travel, Writing and Modernity.

Plus two of the following History modules:

• Applied Historical Research (Dissertation)*
• History in the Public Space
• Arc of Crisis: Great Power Rivalries in the Near East, 1821-1991
• Mafias, Mythologies and Criminal Networks: The United States and the Globalisation of Crime
• Stalin and Stalinism
• The Collapse of Empire and Colonial War: British and French Decolonisation, 1918 -1965
• Crowds, Disorder and the Law in England, 1730-1820
• Resistance to Fascism and Nazism in Western Europe: the Spanish Civil War and Occupied France, 1936-45.

* In your final year you can take either the English Project or Historical Research module. If you choose to take Historical Research you must take the Project Management module in History at during Year 2.