BA English and History with a year abroad (4 years)

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Semester OneCompulsory

HIST1151Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

World Histories: Contact, Conflict and Culture from Ancient to Modern

ENGL1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Poetic Language

ENGL1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Multimedia Old English: Song, Skin and Cyberspace

ENGL1086Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Act of the Essay

ENGL1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Novel

Semester Two

You must take two history option courses, one of these must be a pre-1750 course.

ENGL1079Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Stage and Screen: An Introduction

ENGL1080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Literary Transformations

ENGL1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Group Research Project

ENGL1090Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Theory & Criticism

HIST1008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

A Tudor Revolution in Government?

HIST1011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The First World War

HIST1012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Who is Anne Frank?

HIST1016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Masada: History and Myth

HIST1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The First Crusade: Sources and Distortions

HIST1022Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Childhood and Youth in Early Modern Society

HIST1074Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Battle of Agincourt

HIST1076Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

God's Own Land: Exploring Pakistan's Origins and History

HIST1084Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Cities of the Dead: Death, Mourning and Remembrance in Victorian Britain

HIST1085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

German Jews in Great Britain

HIST1087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Papal power in medieval Europe: crusades, heresy and clashes with kings

HIST1089Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Histories of Empire

HIST1102Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The End of the World: Apocalyptic Visions of History

HIST1103Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Collapse of Austria-Hungary

HIST1113Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Crimean War

HIST1119Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Long Summer? Edwardian Britain 1901-1914

HIST1125Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

When an empire falls: Culture and the British Empire, 1914-1960

HIST1145Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

From Shah to Ayatollah: The Establishment of the Clerical Power in Iran (1979 to Today)

HIST1146Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Joan of Arc: History behind the Myth

HIST1148Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Castles: Military technology and social change from the middle ages to the modern

HIST1153Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Alexander the Great and His Legacy

HIST1164Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Consuls, Dictators & Emperors

HIST1171Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Reagan’s America: Capitalism and Cold War

HIST1176Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Eisenhower and the World: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s

HIST1177Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Twentieth-Century China

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Semester One

English: Students normally choose either one double OR two single English modules

History: Students normally choose one double history module

You may, if you wish, replace one optional, 15 credit, single module in each semester with an alternative subject. One of these will replace the equivalent credits in English, the other the equivalent credits in History.

ENGL2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Romanticism

ENGL2011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Women, Writing and Modernity in Britain, 1790 - 1865

ENGL2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Jewish Fictions

ENGL2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Children's Literature

ENGL2029Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Modern Drama Since the Second World War

ENGL2046Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Images of Africa in Literature and Culture

ENGL2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Objects of Desire

ENGL2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Visions of Beowulf: new encounters with Anglo-Saxon culture

ENGL2077Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Money and Meaning in American Fiction

ENGL2080Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England

ENGL2083Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Tales of Travel c.1000-1650: Idylls, Utopias, Monsters, and Cannibals

ENGL2087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Great Writers Steal: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking

ENGL2091Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain

ENGL2092Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Women Writers Remixed ca. 1850-1915

ENGL2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Victorian Feelings

FILM2019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Women and Hollywood

GERM2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

PHIL1019Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Puzzles about Art and Literature

HIST2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Power, Patronage and Politics in Early Modern England 1509-1660

HIST2039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Imperialism and Nationalism in British India

HIST2049Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sin and Society, 1100-1500

HIST2051Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The British Atlantic World

HIST2055Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ancient Rome: the First Metropolis

HIST2064Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Space Age

HIST2069Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Knights and Chivalry

HIST2071Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Celebrity, Media and Mass Culture, Britain 1888-1952

HIST2073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Jews in Germany before the Holocaust

HIST2082Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Nelson Mandela: A South African life

HIST2084 Accommodation, Violence and Networks in Colonial America

HIST2085Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Rebels with a Cause: The Historical Origins of Christianity

HIST2094Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Wellington and the war against Napoleon

HIST2097Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Napoleon and his legend

HIST2100Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping

HIST2102Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775 - 1898

HIST2103Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Self-inflicted - Extreme Violence, Politics and Power

HIST2106Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

In Hitler's Shadow: Eastern Europe 1918-1939

HIST2107Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Fall of Imperial Russia

HIST2110Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Global Cold War

HIST2215Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Age of Discovery? c.1350-c.1650

HIST2216Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Oil Burns The Hands: Power, Politics and Petroleum in Iraq, 1900-1958

HIST2217Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

From the mafia to the ultras: Conflict, violence and the Italian Republic from 1945 to the 1990s

HIST2218Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sex, Death and Money: the United Kingdom in the 1960s

HIST2219Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Ritual Murder: The Antisemitic Blood Libel from Twelfth-Century England to twentieth-century Russia

HIST2221Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Modern Germany, 1870-1945

Semester TwoOptional

ENGL2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Modern American Poetry

ENGL2010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

ENGL2052Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Images of Women

ENGL2061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) gENGL3047Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme...