BA (HONS) ENGLISH AND HISTORY WITH FOUNDATION YEAR

Year 1 Modules

• Early Modern Britain: From Reformation To Revolution
• Life And Death In Late Medieval England
• Introduction To History: Ideas, Issues And Approaches
• Shakespearean Worlds
• Poetic License: Lines And Lyrics
• The Gothic: Transgressive To Shock
• Introduction To Literary Studies

Year 2 Modules

• People And Places: Researching Local History
• Creative Destruction: The Atlantic World In The 17th And 18th Centuries
• The Secret State: The History Of Modern Espionage
• English@Work
• Becomings: Women & Writing
• Modern Drama: The Inconstant Stage
• Victorians Unbound
• Literature & Identity: Self Or Subject?

Year 3 Modules

• Independent Study
• The Cold War And The Space Age
• The Sun Never Set And The Blood Never Dried: The British Empire In The Long 19th Century
• Pleasure & Profit: 18th-Century Literature & Culture
• The Future Unwritten: Late 20th- And 21st- Century Literature
• Research Project
• Writing Back: Literature & Memory
• Adolescence In Literature: Why Grow Up?
• Research Project
• Romantic Horizons
• Modernism: Make It New!

Assessment

We recognise that individuals come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, so we use a variety of assessment strategies on our courses.

During the Foundation Year, you will have opportunities to experience a range of formative and summative assessments. These include, short-form writing, annotated bibliography, presentations, micro-teach, use of digital technologies, reflective journal and academic essay. Assessment strategies are designed to be supportive, build confidence and also aim to ensure you will develop the core skills required for successful study throughout your degree. Assessment strategies are balanced, comprehensive, diverse and inclusive, ensuring that you will experience a range of assessments to support your preparation for undergraduate study. All modules involve early, small and frequent informal and formal assessments, to ensure that you gain confidence in your knowledge and abilities as you progress through the Foundation Year. You will also have opportunity for self-evaluation and reflection on your own learning progress and development of skills.

Assessments in English are designed to give you the oral, written and digital skills to be confident and successful in the 21st-century world. Through a staged process of development, you will learn how to express yourself persuasively and reflectively across a range of media and platforms: you will write short essays and a long dissertation, deliver oral arguments and create presentations, build digital portfolios and develop personal projects. Instead of time spent in examination rooms, you will experience a diversity of assessment methods, and acquire a broad platform of transferable skills that will prepare you for your future life.

In History, a variety of assessment methods are used, which include essays, reports, presentations and written tests. We support you in this work through a mix of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical workshops and a wide range of field visits. History is primarily a written subject and consequently, much of the assessment of the course is based on essays and reports. There are a few exams, which often include analysis of provided source material, either text or images. There are also a smaller number of oral presentations and the production of portfolios of research material.