English Literature and Archaeology (BA)

The BA in English Literature and Archaeology aims to develop your knowledge and critical understanding of both disciplines, and to cultivate intellectual skills such as the ability to assess evidence critically, to evaluate different interpretations of the evidence, to construct arguments on the basis of evidence, and to express opinions cogently in speech and in writing.

We deliver a degree offering a challenging programme of modules, supported by a friendly atmosphere and excellent staff-student relationships.

The degree provides the training necessary for students who wish to study English Literature or Archaeology at postgraduate level, and a valuable range of intellectual and transferable skills for students who enter a range of professions.

Year one

In Year One you will take 60 credits in English Literature and 60 credits in Archaeology.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsThe Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies: Egypt, Greece and RomeHS212320 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsDeep Histories: The Archaeology of BritainHS212420 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsAnalysing ArchaeologyHS212520 creditsDiscovering ArchaeologyHS212620 creditsYear two

In Year 2, you take 60 credits of Archaeology and 60 credits of English Literature.

You will undertake 4 weeks of excavation or another archaeological work placement. You will be able to choose from a large range of period, regional and skills modules.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsArchaeology Fieldwork 1HS234110 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsThe History of Archaeological ThoughtHS235020 creditsArchaeological PhotographyHS241410 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsSurveying and ProspectionHS231410 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsArchaeological IllustrationHS242910 creditsArchaeological PhotographyHS240710 creditsMuseums Collections ManagementHS242120 creditsArchaeological IllustrationHS243010 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsChildren's Literature: Form & FunctionSE244720 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 creditsLater Bronze Age BritainHS230510 creditsIron Age BritainHS230620 creditsEarly Anglo-Saxon EnglandHS230710 creditsMiddle and Later Saxon EnglandHS230910 creditsNeolithic EuropeHS231120 creditsDeath and Burial in the Roman WorldHS430820 creditsIndependent Science ProjectHS243420 creditsArchaeology Independent StudyHS243320 creditsBioarchaeologyHS243220 creditsCeramics in ArchaeologyHS243120 creditsStructure & Decay of Organic MaterialsHS231910 creditsAnalysis of ArtefactsHS232010 creditsPractical Projects 1HS233040 creditsPractical Projects 2HS233140 creditsOrganic Objects: Decay & ConservationHS233520 creditsPost-Roman Celtic BritainHS234020 creditsArchaeology Fieldwork 2HS234310 creditsAegean Bronze Age: Emergence To CollapseHS238720 creditsArt & Archaeology of Classical GreeceHS238920 creditsConservation of Wet Archaeological WoodHS239210 creditsPharaohs of The SunHS241020 creditsIntroduction to Spatial Techniques and TechnologiesHS241810 creditsGeographic Information Systems for Archaeologists and Ancient HistoriansHS241910 creditsConservation Research ProjectHS242720 creditsHeritage CommunicationHS242820 creditsRepresenting the VictoriansSE246620 creditsLiterature and ScienceSE247120 creditsDickens in Many MediaSE247220 creditsYear three

In Year 3 you choose a further 60 credits of Archaeology and 60 credits of English Literature. If you wish, you can write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in either discipline This provides a chance for you to focus your interests on a particular area, period or technique.

You will undertake another 4 weeks of excavation or another archaeological work placement.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsArchaeology Fieldwork 1HS234110 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsDissertationSE252420 creditsNineteenth-Century Crime FictionSE239020 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsThird Year Archaeology DissertationHS231220 creditsThe History of Archaeological ThoughtHS235020 creditsArchaeological PhotographyHS240710 creditsArchaeological PhotographyHS241410 creditsSurveying and ProspectionHS231410 creditsWriting Caribbean SlaverySE256820 creditsGender & Monstrosity: Late/Neo VictorianSE256420 creditsInterwar Experiments: Sex, Gender, StyleSE258420 creditsMiddle English Romance: Monsters and MagicSE258620 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) AutumnSE625160 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) SpringSE625260 creditsArchaeological IllustrationHS242910 creditsMuseums Collections ManagementHS242120 creditsArchaeological IllustrationHS243010 creditsLove, Death and Marriage in Renaissance LiteratureSE258320 creditsFrench TheorySE257020 creditsR. S. Thomas: No Truce with the FuriesSE257820 creditsDesire, the Body and the Text: Psychoanalysis & LiteratureSE258020 creditsSecond-generation Romantic PoetsSE258220 creditsUtopia: Suffrage to CyberpunkSE258120 credits