BA (Hons) English and History with Sandwich placement
Bachelor's degree
In Wolverhampton
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
The English and History integrated joint gives students an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of their heritage and cultural identity, along with the chance to explore other cultures and traditions. Using a wide range of literary and non-literary materials, the programme examines the dynamic relationship which links all forms of cultural activity to the passions and prejudices, hopes and fears of real people facing the specific challenges of their times. Students on this course will develop a greater appreciation of social and political forces which shape our world and its communities. They will acquire the ability to identify and employ a range of oral, written and digital resources, enhancing their skills in information gathering and self-expression which are valued so highly by future employers.
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Sandwich Year
You will have the opportunity to undertake a 40 credit placement at Level 5 of study.
5LW022 Supervised Work Experience (40 Credits)
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Subjects
- Poetry
- Writing
- English
- Politics
Course programme
Module: 4EN007
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will examine the shorter fiction and literature of well-known and canonical authors as a means of introducing a range of authors in a digestible fashion whilst also considering the short story as a distinct literary form. We will discuss a range of short literary material to show the contribution that such literature can make to the canon. We will investigate the formal characteristics of the short story – plot (or its frequent absence), narrative technique, arrangement of scenes, tone, and how the structure determines the treatment of a range of contemporary ideas: time and consciousness, subjectivity, alienation, sexuality, body and gender, fantasy, imperialism and immigration.
Module: 4HS004
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module surveys the history of Europe and the Americas between 1789 and 1914 by exploring major areas of intersection and interdependence in the historical development of both continents. It examines similarities in the use of forced labour, the complex web of economic relations between the continents, and illuminates the flow of population and ideas across the Atlantic. In addition the module also considers the consequences that nation-building and imperialism in Europe and the Americas had for ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples.
Module: 4EN004
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will examine literature as both a source of, and challenge to, different forms of individual, social and national identities. It will seek to address questions concerning the processes of readers' subjectivity and identification, the constructedness of identity and the relationship between literary expression and national identities. In addition, whose identity is under scrutiny when we read literary texts? The author or the reader? Who is the ‘I’ in literary meaning and should we move from the interpretation of texts to the interpretation of interpretations?
Module: 4EN009
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will explore a broad selection of poetry from different periods of literary history with an emphasis on learning techniques for formal analysis (close reading), creative expression (writing poetry), and performance. We will consider aspects of reading, writing, and performing poetry, including form, rhythm and meter, diction, figurative language and sound. We will also consider the development of particular genres (e.g. the ballad, the sonnet) and forms (e.g. blank verse, free verse) over time, from the medieval period to the present, with an emphasis on the horizon of reader expectations that accrue around poetic forms and genres.
Module: 4HS003
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module examines the foundations of modern British society through a focus on the broad period of industrial development and social change c1700-c1819 (the year the Monarchy was presented with an heir apparent). Especial emphasis will be given to the impact of industrialisation, British imperialism and urbanisation on the world of work, politics, culture and the household.
Module: 4HS001
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module introduces you to the study and practice of history (and if you are studying for a degree in a cognate field, the practice of academic work). Different approaches to the subject, historiographical and methodological issues will be studied in order to familiarise you with the pathway learning outcomes, derived from the QAA History benchmarking statement, which will underpin your studies. A key focus of the module will be the development of subject and key skills that will enable you to cope with more advanced work in the subject.
Module: 5EN001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to provide both a thorough introduction to the main areas of contemporary literary criticism and theory, and to equip students with a set of theoretical terms and concepts that will enable them to understand what is at stake in current debates in critical and cultural theory.
Module: 5HS003
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to examine the key themes of family, gender and sexuality in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The module focuses upon urban and public culture using a variety of online and documentary sources to examine both ‘normative’ and ‘transgressive’ behaviour within British society.
Module: 5EN004
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module explores the social, political and philosophical contexts of the English Renaissance through its literary culture, concentrating on work of Shakespeare and Milton - the two literary giants who bookend this period of literary history.
Module: 5HS006
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to provide students with an understanding of significant themes in the history of the working class in British society from the late-Victorian period to the politics of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The module explores the rise of the trade unions and the labour party, migration, the changing nature of work and everyday life, popular culture, and depictions of the working class in film and television.
Module: 5EN007
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Optional
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module offers a critical and creative engagement with literature written for children, designed for Creative Writing and English students. In studying the historical trajectory of children’s literature, students will be encouraged to analyse texts in relation to their cultural, social and gendered contexts, and mindful of the changing politics of childhood as an identity category. What did ‘childhood’ mean in different eras, and what was the literature intended for them meant to do?
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BA (Hons) English and History with Sandwich placement