English Literature and History (BA)

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

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsThe Making of The Modern World, 1750-1970HS110520 creditsEarly Modern England and Wales 1500-1700HS110620 creditsTexts in Time 1500-1800SE213220 creditsLiterature, Culture, PlaceSE213320 creditsModern WalesHS110420 creditsMedieval EuropeHS110120 creditsMaking Global Histories: Asia and the WestHS110820 creditsYear two

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

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsApproaches To HistoryHS170130 creditsExploring Historical DebateHS170230 creditsFrom King Coal To Cool Cymru: Society and Culture in Wales, 1939-2000HS175630 creditsHistory and ICT: A Guided StudyHS170530 creditsIndia and The Raj 1857-1947HS176530 creditsMedicine and Modern Society, 1750-1919HS179930 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsWar, Peace and Diplomacy, c.900-c.1250HS170730 creditsHeresy & Dissent 1000-1450HS171030 creditsInto The Vortex: Britain and The First World WarHS178730 creditsMaking Empires: Britain and the World, 1541 - 1714HS179330 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsNations, Empire and Borderlands from 1789 to the presentHS174930 credits"An Empire for Liberty": Race, Space and Power in the United States, 1775-1898HS176030 creditsPoverty and Relief in Medieval EuropeHS171430 creditsThe British Civil Wars and Revolution, C.1638-1649HS174230 creditsBuilding the Modern WorldHS174430 creditsBeing Human: Self and Society in Britain from Darwin to the Age of Mass CultureHS174830 creditsThe Search for an Asian Modern: Japanese History from 1800 to the Post-War EraHS176830 creditsThe Soviet Century: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905-1991HS177630 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 creditsRevels and Riots: Popular Culture in Early Modern EnglandHS174330 creditsA Great Leap Forward China Transformed 1840-PresentHS175230 creditsDiwydiannaeth, Radicaliaeth a'r Bobl Gyffredin yng Nghymru a Phrydain mewn Oes Chwyldro, c. 1789-1880HS175730 creditsRadicalism and the Common People, 1789-1880HS175830 creditsLatin American HistoryHS176130 creditsA Jagged History: Germany in the 20th CenturyHS176330 creditsThe Later Roman Empire AD284 - 602HS331830 creditsLiterature and ScienceSE247120 creditsDickens in Many MediaSE247220 creditsInternational Study Abroad (120 credits) All YearSE6254120 creditsYear three

In Year 3, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of History modules.

If you wish, you can write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in either discipline.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsDissertationHS180130 creditsClass, Protest and Politics: South Wales 1918-39HS186830 creditsRace, Sex and Empire & India, 1765-1929HS185530 creditsThe Dangerous City? Urban Society & Culture 1800-1914HS189630 creditsNineteenth-Century Crime FictionSE239020 creditsWriting Caribbean SlaverySE256820 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsDissertationSE252420 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 creditsSexuality and the Social Order in Medieval EuropeHS180430 creditsFrom Bismarck To Goebbels: Biography and Modern German History, 1870-1945HS182930 creditsDeviants, Rebels and Witches in Early Modern Britain and IrelandHS182830 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 creditsThe World of the Anglo-Saxons, c.500-c.1087HS180330 creditsGlimpses of the Unfamiliar: Travellers to Japan from 1860 to the Post-War EraHS185830 creditsCulture, Soc & I.D. in Wales 1847-1914HS186530 creditsViolence and Ideology in Inter-War Soviet RussiaHS188330 creditsEurope and the Revolutionary Tradition in the Long Nineteenth CenturyHS188730 creditsSlavery and Slave Life in North America, 1619-1865HS189030 creditsGender, Power and Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century BritainHS189430 creditsBluestockings, Britannia, Unsex'd Females: Women in public life, 1770 - 1800SE258820 creditsKingship: Image and Power c.1000-1399HS181330 creditsCity Lives: Urban Culture and Society, c.1550-1750HS182630 creditsCultures of Power: The Gentry of Tudor and Stuart EnglandHS182730 creditsConflict, Coercion and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China 1911-1945HS183830...