BA History and English Literature QV31

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
This joint honours course enables you to explore a wide range of historical periods, topics and themes by looking at them as historical events and through their presentation in literary texts.
Discover a thousand years of history whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading. The History Department's expertise covers a wide range of world regions – from Europe and Africa to America, South Asia and the Middle East – and historical periods, with module choices ranging from the Crusades to the 1960s, slavery in America to Tudor monarchy and Cold War Berlin to medieval magic.
In your first year, your core History modules will explore people, politics, and revolution finding out how people struggled for power in past societies; and the culture and concepts those societies developed. We will teach you the skills you need to study and research history through an individual project of your choice.
In your English Literature modules, you will read more of authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But you will also encounter aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction.
As you progress through your degree, your module choices become more diverse and specialised: you can do archive work on "Studying manuscripts", or look at the politics of literature in "Writing global justice". Everyone in the English Department, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every level of the degree: this gives you the benefit of our expertise and makes you part of the conversation about our research and its impact outside the classroom. We place a strong emphasis on small-group learning within a friendly and supportive environment. In...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

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On request

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Subjects

  • English
  • Poetry
  • Modern History
  • Writing
  • Politics
  • Shakespeare
  • Restoration
  • Magic
  • Global

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Directed Study in History
  • Genre and Context
  • Landmarks in History 1
  • Landmarks in History 2
  • Poetry in English
  • Research and Criticism
  • Study Skills in History

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Optional modules include:
  • Period in Early Modern History: Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
  • Period in Medieval History: Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
  • Period in Medieval History: Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
  • Period in Modern History: Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
  • Period in Modern History: Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
  • Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
  • Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
  • The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
  • Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
  • Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
  • Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • My Career: Working It Out
  • Period in Early Modern History: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Period in Medieval History: Women of the Medieval World
  • Period in Modern History: American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
  • Period in Modern History: Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • Period in Modern History: Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
  • Period in Modern History: Victorian Britain
  • Public History: Its Uses and Abuses
  • The Romantic Period
  • new Early Modern Period
  • ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Lyric Voices
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • Restoration to Revolution
  • The Romantic Period
  • Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
  • Critical Issues
  • Victorian Literature
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising
  • Shakespeare
  • Writing Genre, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • The Business of Books

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Optional modules include:
  • Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
  • From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
  • Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
  • Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
  • Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
  • Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
  • Restoration Literary Culture: Drama and Poetry, 1660-1700
  • The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
  • Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
  • Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Discovering Archives and Collections
  • Dissertation
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • European Case Studies (3)
  • France and Europe since 1945
  • History Education
  • Ireland and the English in the middle ages
  • La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
  • Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
  • Modern Epic
  • Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
  • Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
  • Science in Culture
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
  • The United States and the Cold War
  • The Writer's Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy
  • new Modern Topic
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Black British Fiction
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Children’s Literature
  • Class Matters
  • ‘Eyes on the Prize’: Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Decadence and Degeneration
  • Dickens
  • Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in post-war Britain and America
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Family Romances
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Holocaust Testimony
  • Irish Poetry
  • James Joyce
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Modern Scottish Fiction
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Packaging Literature
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Restoration Literary Culture
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Science in Culture
  • The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian & Edwardian Children’s Fantasy
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
  • American Graphic Novel
  • The African-American Short Story
  • Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
  • John Milton
  • Modern American Drama
  • Modernism and Politics
  • Shakespeare and Gender
  • Utopia
  • Victorian Literature and Medicine

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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