B.A. Art History and English and American Literature (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Romanticism
• Introduction to the History of Art
• Early Drama
• Readings in the Twentieth Century
• Writing America
• Introduction to Contemporary Art
• Introduction to Contemporary Art
• Perspectives on the History of Photography
• Perspectives on the History of Photography

Possible modules may include:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
• Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
• Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
• Reading Victorian Literature
• Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
• The Contemporary
• Modernism
• Empire, New Nations and Migration
• Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
• Art & Film
• Abstraction & Construction in the 20th Century
• Visual Arts Writing
• Beauty in Theory, Culture and Contemporary Art
• Transatlantic Dialogues: British and Modern Art c.1900-1970
• From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Practice
• Classicism and Baroque
• Costume and Fashion
• Reading the Image

Possible modules may include:

• Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
• Charles Dickens and Victorian England
• Language and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial Poetry
• The Global Eighteenth Century
• The 'Real' America: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age
• The Love Poem: Wyatt to Nick Cave
• Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
• Marriage, Desire and Divorce in Early Modern Literature
• Places and Journeys
• Heroes and Exiles: An Introduction to Old English Poetry
• From Book to Blog: Geoffrey Chaucer and his Afterlives
• Discovery Space: New Theatres in Early Modern England
• Native American Literature
• Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature
• American Crime Fiction
• Contemporary Irish Writing
• Writing Lives in Early Modern England: Diaries, Letters and Secret Selv
• The Unknown: Reading and Writing
• The Graphic Novel
• The Stranger
• Unruly Women and Other Insubordinates: the dramatic repertoire of the Q
• Image, Vision and Dream: Medieval Texts and Visual Culture
• Harlem to Hogan's Alley: Black Writing in North America
• The Brontes in Context
• Lyric, Ballad and Popular Song
• Animals, Humans, Writing
• Victorian Aestheticism and Decadence
• Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
• Discord and Devotion: Society & Spirituality in Middle English Literatu
• The Contemporary Memoir
• Thomas Hardy
• Innovation and Experiment in New York, 1945- 1995
• Utopia: Philosophy and Literature
• Performing Vice c.1350-1550
• Marxism, Literature and Culture
• Poetry and Crisis, from the First World War to Occupy
• Metropolis: Writing and Spectacle in Early Modern London
• Reading the Image
• Independent Project
• Arts Internship
• Costume and Fashion
• From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Practice
• Art and Film
• Abstraction And Construction in 20th Century Art
• Beauty in Theory Culture & Contemporary Art
• Visual Arts Writing
• Photographic History & Aesthetics 1: Realism in Theory and Practice
• Transatlantic Dialogues: British and American Art c. 1900-1970
• Classicism and Baroque