English and History - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our course combinations are designed so that what you learn in one subject will complement and enhance what you learn in the other. In your final year you can choose either to split your time evenly between your two subjects, or to specialise in one. Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you too. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enables you to take part in optional work placements or go on an international exchange.

By choosing English and History you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. English literature has always closely reflected key historical events and by combining these two subjects you’ll be exposed to an exciting international mix of authentic and fictional voices.

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Location

Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

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About this course

Our recent English and History Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

Local Government – teacher (secondary English)
Barclays International – analyst
Vision Twentyone – social research interviewer
Lightdragon Ltd
Food Network UK – content producer
Frank Haslam Milan (FHM) – PR and marketing coordinator
The Army – army officer training.

Other careers could include:

heritage management
marketing
advertising
publishing
journalism and recruitment.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you’re unsure whether your qualifications meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • English
  • International
  • Writing
  • Humanities
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Romantic Revolutions
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Dissertation
  • Modernism
  • Modernity

Course programme

Year One
  • History: Practice and Purpose
  • Pathways Through Modernity
  • Foundations in Literary Studies
  • American Literature: Writing Self and Nation
Year Two
  • The Historian's Craft
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • Humanities at work
History optional modules
  • Land of Liberty: History of the United States, 1815-2000
  • The Crusades
  • Conflicts and Cultures in Mid-Victorian England 1850-1880
  • Heritage Matters
  • The Age of Reformations
  • Revolutionary Transformations: Russia and China in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • The Eagle and the Snake: Conquests and Colonisations of Mexico
English optional modules
  • Renaissance Literature, 1485-1660: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • British Women Writers between the Wars (1918-1939)
  • Romantic Revolutions 1780-1851
  • Writing Works
  • American Topics
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Voices and Visions
Year Three
  • Dissertation
  • The Creative Writing Dissertation
  • English and Creative Industries Project
History optional modules
  • Real-Life Work Project
  • Memory and Identities in European Writing, Cinema and Society
  • Crusading Cultures and Communities
  • Rustic and Rude: Rural Cultures 1840-1880
  • Early Modern Revolution and War
  • Magna Carta: Origins, Impetus and Legacy
  • Museum Matters
  • The African American Experience in History and Memory
  • Living and Dying in Reformation Britain
  • Mission Impossible? Converting the New World
English optional modules
  • Early Modern Poetry and Prose
  • American Specialisms
  • Reading Gender and Sexuality
  • Postcolonial Texts: Narratives of Liberation
  • Travel Writing: Texts, Contexts and Theory
  • Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries
  • Literature in Theory: Writing, Technology, and the World
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Nuclear Literature

English and History - BA (Hons)

Price on request