Course programme
Introduction to Literary Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Talking Texts (Core,20 Credits)
Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Core,20 Credits)
The Making of Contemporary Europe (Core,20 Credits)
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1200-1720 (Core,20 Credits)
Making History (Core,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
The San Francisco Bay Area (Explorations in American Studies II) (Optional,20 Credits)
Early Modern Cultures (Core,20 Credits)
Modernism and Modernity (Core,20 Credits)
Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism (Core,20 Credits)
Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960 (Optional,20 Credits)
America in the 1960s (Optional,20 Credits)
Your Graduate Future (Optional,20 Credits)
From Reconstruction to Reunification: Europe, 1945-1991 (Optional,20 Credits)
Inquisition and Discovery: Myths and Realities of Late Medieval Spain (Optional,20 Credits)
The Holocaust (Optional,20 Credits)
Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, Society and Culture, 1783-1982 (Optional,20 Credits)
Enlightenment to Empire: France in an Age of Revolution, 1715-1815 (Optional,20 Credits)
Land of Rivers, Land of Coal: Making and Breaking Industrial North-East England, 1770-1990 (Optional,20 Credits)
Civilians and the Second World War (Optional,20 Credits)
Divisive Pasts: Legacies of Conflict and Oppression in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Optional,20 Credits)
On Her Own Account: Being an Independent Woman in Britain, 1800-1920 (Optional,20 Credits)
Globalising Worlds: Objects, People and Ideas 1600 - 1800 (Optional,20 Credits)
Early Modern Monarchies: Power and Representation, 1500–1750 (Optional,20 Credits)
At Home in America: Society, Politics and Environment in the Home, 1860 to the present (Optional,20 Credits)
Dictatorship and Development: Central America, 1912–1996
(Optional,20 Credits)
Taking the King’s Shilling: Ireland and the British Army, 1815–1945 (Optional,20 Credits)
Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder (Optional,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Year in International Business (This is made up of 5 modules studied in Newcastle (Semester 1) & Amsterdam (Semester 2) (Optional,120 Credits)
States of Nature: An Environmental History of the Americas (Explorations in American Studies III) (Optional,20 Credits)
Alternative Worlds: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares (Optional,20 Credits)
Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (Optional,20 Credits)
Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context (Optional,20 Credits)
Romanticism and Childhood (Optional,20 Credits)
Neo-Victorianism: Contemporary Literature and Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Atlantic: Literature, Slavery and Race (Optional,20 Credits)
Entertaining Satan (Optional,20 Credits)
Postwar US Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Optional,20 Credits)
From Jane Austen to Austenland: Representing the Regency in Literature and Film (Optional,20 Credits)
Contemporary Genre Fiction (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing and Environment (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Panther Party (Optional,20 Credits)
Civil War and Reconstruction (Optional,20 Credits)
Women, Crime and Subversion in Early Modern Europe (Optional,20 Credits)
Revolution and the Russian Empire 1860-1924 (Optional,20 Credits)
Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Crisis and Change in Western Europe, 1965-1987 (Optional,20 Credits)
British India, 1757-1857 (Optional,20 Credits)
'Europe's Greatest Killer: The Black Death, Ethnic Cleansing and Biological Warfare in the Late Medieval World' (Optional,20 Credits)
Joint Honours Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
Northern Ireland: The 'Troubles' and the Search for Peace (Optional,20 Credits)
Barricades and Boulevards: Revolution, Culture, and Urban Life in Nineteenth-century Paris (Optional,20 Credits)
Law and Order USA: Police, Prisons, and Protest in Modern America (Optional,20 Credits)
Recording the Past: Making Your Own History Documentary (Optional,20 Credits)
The Art of Power: Tudor Court Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Big Business in Asia? The European East India Companies, 1600–1800
(Optional,20 Credits)
The Politics of the Environment in Modern Britain
(Optional,20 Credits)
Holocaust Testimony and Cultural Memory (Optional,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Talking Texts (Core,20 Credits)
Gothic Stories: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Core,20 Credits)
The Making of Contemporary Europe (Core,20 Credits)
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1200-1720 (Core,20 Credits)
Making History (Core,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
The San Francisco Bay Area (Explorations in American Studies II) (Optional,20 Credits)
Early Modern Cultures (Core,20 Credits)
Modernism and Modernity (Core,20 Credits)
Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism (Core,20 Credits)
Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960 (Optional,20 Credits)
America in the 1960s (Optional,20 Credits)
Your Graduate Future (Optional,20 Credits)
From Reconstruction to Reunification: Europe, 1945-1991 (Optional,20 Credits)
Inquisition and Discovery: Myths and Realities of Late Medieval Spain (Optional,20 Credits)
The Holocaust (Optional,20 Credits)
Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, Society and Culture, 1783-1982 (Optional,20 Credits)
Enlightenment to Empire: France in an Age of Revolution, 1715-1815 (Optional,20 Credits)
Land of Rivers, Land of Coal: Making and Breaking Industrial North-East England, 1770-1990 (Optional,20 Credits)
Civilians and the Second World War (Optional,20 Credits)
Divisive Pasts: Legacies of Conflict and Oppression in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Optional,20 Credits)
On Her Own Account: Being an Independent Woman in Britain, 1800-1920 (Optional,20 Credits)
Globalising Worlds: Objects, People and Ideas 1600 - 1800 (Optional,20 Credits)
Early Modern Monarchies: Power and Representation, 1500–1750 (Optional,20 Credits)
At Home in America: Society, Politics and Environment in the Home, 1860 to the present (Optional,20 Credits)
Dictatorship and Development: Central America, 1912–1996
(Optional,20 Credits)
Taking the King’s Shilling: Ireland and the British Army, 1815–1945 (Optional,20 Credits)
Unilang - Languages for all - Level 5 Placeholder (Optional,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Year in International Business (This is made up of 5 modules studied in Newcastle (Semester 1) & Amsterdam (Semester 2) (Optional,120 Credits)
States of Nature: An Environmental History of the Americas (Explorations in American Studies III) (Optional,20 Credits)
Alternative Worlds: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares (Optional,20 Credits)
Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (Optional,20 Credits)
Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context (Optional,20 Credits)
Romanticism and Childhood (Optional,20 Credits)
Neo-Victorianism: Contemporary Literature and Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Atlantic: Literature, Slavery and Race (Optional,20 Credits)
Entertaining Satan (Optional,20 Credits)
Postwar US Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Optional,20 Credits)
From Jane Austen to Austenland: Representing the Regency in Literature and Film (Optional,20 Credits)
Contemporary Genre Fiction (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing and Environment (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Panther Party (Optional,20 Credits)
Civil War and Reconstruction (Optional,20 Credits)
Women, Crime and Subversion in Early Modern Europe (Optional,20 Credits)
Revolution and the Russian Empire 1860-1924 (Optional,20 Credits)
Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Crisis and Change in Western Europe, 1965-1987 (Optional,20 Credits)
British India, 1757-1857 (Optional,20 Credits)
'Europe's Greatest Killer: The Black Death, Ethnic Cleansing and Biological Warfare in the Late Medieval World' (Optional,20 Credits)
Joint Honours Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
Northern Ireland: The 'Troubles' and the Search for Peace (Optional,20 Credits)
Barricades and Boulevards: Revolution, Culture, and Urban Life in Nineteenth-century Paris (Optional,20 Credits)
Law and Order USA: Police, Prisons, and Protest in Modern America (Optional,20 Credits)
Recording the Past: Making Your Own History Documentary (Optional,20 Credits)
The Art of Power: Tudor Court Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Big Business in Asia? The European East India Companies, 1600–1800
(Optional,20 Credits)
The Politics of the Environment in Modern Britain
(Optional,20 Credits)
Holocaust Testimony and Cultural Memory (Optional,20 Credits)
Academic Language Skills for Humanities & Social Sciences (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)