English Literature and Ancient History (BA)

This is a three-year degree programme comprising of some core modules that provide essential skills and training as well as a wide variety of optional modules for you to select from in order to tailor your degree to meet your interests.

Year one

In Year 1, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Ancient History modules.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsIntroduction to Roman HistoryHS310220 creditsIntroduction to Ancient Greek HistoryHS310120 creditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsYear two

In Year 2, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Ancient History modules.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsReading Latin 2HS332220 creditsReading Greek 2HS332420 creditsLatin Historical TextsHS334310 creditsLatin Historical TextsHS334410 creditsGreek Historical TextsHS334610 creditsReading Latin 1HS342120 creditsReading Greek IHS342320 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsIndependent 2nd Year StudyHS433420 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsPots, Poems and Pictures: Using Evidence for Ancient HistoryHS433620 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsGreek Historical TextsHS334510 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsChildren's Literature: Form & FunctionSE244720 creditsRepresenting the VictoriansSE246620 creditsThe Robin Hood TraditionSE236720 creditsFictive Histories/Historical FictionsSE246720 creditsGothic Fiction: The Romantic AgeSE246820 creditsRomanticism, Politics, AestheticsSE246920 creditsSocial Politics and National Style: American Fiction and Form 1920-1940SE247020 creditsWays of ReadingSE244920 creditsGods & the Polis: Athenian FestivalsHS333010 creditsLife in Ancient RomeHS435810 creditsIntroduction to Spatial Techniques and TechnologiesHS241810 creditsInscriptions and Athenian HistoryHS332610 creditsRoman ReligionHS333110 creditsGreek and Roman MedicineHS337620 creditsHouses in Roman ItalyHS436310 creditsAegean Bronze Age: Emergence To CollapseHS238720 creditsArt & Archaeology of Classical GreeceHS238920 creditsHeritage CommunicationHS242820 creditsRoman Imperial History 31BC - AD138HS331730 creditsThe Later Roman Empire AD284 - 602HS331830 creditsTyrants, Kings and Democrats: the Rise of Classical GreeceHS337420 creditsDeath and Burial in the Roman WorldHS430820 creditsGreek WarfareHS436620 creditsKing and Court in the Ancient Near EastHS337720 creditsGeographic Information Systems for Archaeologists and Ancient HistoriansHS241910 creditsLiterature and ScienceSE247120 creditsDickens in Many MediaSE247220 creditsYear three

In Year 3, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Ancient History modules. If you wish, you can write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in either English Literature or Ancient History.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsReading Latin 2HS332220 creditsReading Greek 2HS332420 creditsLatin Historical TextsHS334310 creditsLatin Historical TextsHS334410 creditsGreek Historical TextsHS334610 creditsReading Latin 1HS342120 creditsReading Greek IHS342320 creditsDissertationSE252420 creditsNineteenth-Century Crime FictionSE239020 creditsWriting Caribbean SlaverySE256820 creditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsLove, Death and Marriage in Renaissance LiteratureSE258320 creditsR. S. Thomas: No Truce with the FuriesSE257820 creditsFrench TheorySE257020 creditsSecond-generation Romantic PoetsSE258220 creditsDesire, the Body and the Text: Psychoanalysis & LiteratureSE258020 creditsUtopia: Suffrage to CyberpunkSE258120 creditsResearching the Ancient World: Final Year DissertationHS433540 creditsGender & Monstrosity: Late/Neo VictorianSE256420 creditsInterwar Experiments: Sex, Gender, StyleSE258420 creditsMiddle English Romance: Monsters and MagicSE258620 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) AutumnSE625160 creditsGreek Historical TextsHS334510 creditsBluestockings, Britannia, Unsex'd Females: Women in public life, 1770 - 1800SE258820 creditsPots, Poems and Pictures: Using Evidence for Ancient HistoryHS433620 creditsGods & the Polis: Athenian FestivalsHS333010 creditsLife in Ancient RomeHS435810 creditsIntroduction to Spatial Techniques and TechnologiesHS241810 creditsInscriptions and Athenian HistoryHS332610 creditsRoman ReligionHS333110 creditsGreek and Roman MedicineHS337620 creditsHouses in Roman ItalyHS436310 creditsGeographic Information Systems for Archaeologists and Ancient HistoriansHS241910 creditsAegean Bronze Age: Emergence To CollapseHS238720 creditsArt & Archaeology of Classical GreeceHS238920 creditsHeritage CommunicationHS242820 creditsRoman Imperial History 31BC - AD138HS331730 creditsThe Later Roman Empire AD284 - 602HS331830 creditsTyrants, Kings and Democrats: the Rise of Classical GreeceHS337420 creditsDeath and Burial in the Roman WorldHS430820 creditsGreek WarfareHS436620 creditsGothic Fiction: The VictoriansSE258920 creditsModern British Political DramaSE259020 creditsNorse Myth and SagaSE256020 creditsCanterbury Tales: Genre, History, InterpretationSE257920 credits