Programme Requirements for 2023/24 Session


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B.A. English and History with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

History Modules:

Students must take at least 40 credits from the Special Subjects A and B lists OR the 40-credit Dissertation module listed below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term

Special Subjects List of available modules change from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Special Subjects (A):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: A 09 36066 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 A 09 30957 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: A 09 35001 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 A 09 32127 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Conquest and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-1650 A 09 37878 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt A 09 37120 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination A 09 30927 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 A 09 30956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 A 09 37112 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s A 09 30955 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A 09 31842 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain A 09 30959 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Explorers, Conquerors and Settlers; The Sixteenth-Century Age of Discovery A 09 38807 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War A 09 38880 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: 1066, 1099: Chronicling Conquest on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe: B 09 36067 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 B 09 31114 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: B 09 35002 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Conflict, nationalism and genocide in East Central Europe, ca. 1880 – 1953 B 09 32125 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Conquest and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-1650 A 09 37879 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Egypt in Revolution. Modernity, Masculinity and Revolution in 20th Century Egypt B 09 37121 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Empire-wallahs: India in the British Imagination: B 09 31106 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and the Emperor: British Foreign and Defence Policies, 1931-1942 B 09 31113 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Games without Thrones? North Atlantic Societies in the wake of the Vikings, c.800-c.1200 B 09 37116 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: People of the Aftermath: British Culture in the 1920s and 1930s B 09 31112 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich B 09 31840 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Where There Is Discord: Making Thatcher’s Britain B 09 31116 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Explorers, Conquerors and Settlers; The Sixteenth-Century Age of Discovery B 09 38808 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War B 09 38879 20 Semester 2

Students may also take between 0 and 40 credits from the following modules (including the Advanced Options lists) providing their total History credits add up to no more than 80. The advanced options available vary from year to year. The list below is indicative:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Advanced Options

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: After the Caliphate: Political Authority in Islamic Lands, 1000-1600 09 38739 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38888 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Bread, Wine and Barricades: Freedom, Ecology and the Nature of Modern France 09 38740 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Britain and her Soldiers: Society and the Army from the First World War to Afghanistan 09 38800 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976) 09 38742 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Conflict in the Modern Middle East 09 38743 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Faith and Fire: Religion and Rebellion in England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I 09 38801 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Feeding the World, Starving the Planet: Towards a Global History of Food 09 38889 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: From the OSS to Snowden: A History of American Intelligence Agencies since 1945 09 38745 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 38746 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: History of Technology and Culture in the United States 09 38803 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Land, Law, and Violence in the American West 09 38749 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Lest We Forget? 'Memory, War, and Conflict in Britain, 1642-2022 09 38890 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Microhistories of the First World War 09 38804 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Practising Public History 09 38752 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 38753 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: The Making of the British Raj: Gender, Conquest and Race in early colonial India, c.1757-1885 09 38757 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Women Behaving Badly in Tudor and Stuart England 09 38760 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain 09 38759 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: ‘Vanished: Extinction from the Dodo to Extinction Rebellion’ 09 38891 20 Semester 2
LH Narratives of Conquest and Incomprehension 09 38836 20 Semester 2
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Subject to the approval of the programme lead students may also include in their history total up to 40 credits of optional modules offered by departments other than history. Students may only take one dissertation module and their credit total must include at least one non-dissertation module.

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1

English Literature Pathway:
Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) Dissertation in English Literature (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Literature must study Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme)
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.

It is not possible to take more than one English Literature Special Subject from a particular block.

Indicative lists of modules are provided below.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Extended Essay in English Literature 09 27042 20 Full Term

English Literature Special Subjects

Block A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel 09 30677 20 Semester 1
LH Last Year's Novels 09 26673 20 Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985 09 30635 20 Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies 09 26835 20 Semester 1
LH Studies in Nineteenth-Century Single Author: Oscar Wilde 09 39007 20 Semester 1

Block B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century 09 29639 20 Semester 1
LH Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books 09 37165 20 Semester 2
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin 09 27598 20 Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain 09 30727 20 Semester 1
LH Remembering World War One 09 26674 20 Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 09 37091 20 Semester 2

Block C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Decoding Pop Culture 09 37089 20 Semester 2
LH Elizabeth I and her Poets 09 30616 20 Semester 2
LH Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 09 30620 20 Semester 2
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art 09 29643 20 Semester 2
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 09 37899 20 Semester 2
LH Law and Literature 09 24813 20 Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf 09 37163 20 Semester 2

Block D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 09 30646 20 Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 09 22837 20 Semester 2
LH Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives 09 37007 20 Semester 2
LH Modern American Poetry 09 29542 20 Semester 2
LH The Social Life of Literature 09 34875 20 Semester 2

English Language Pathway

Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Dissertation (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme.)

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Language can study

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.
(b) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme).

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Full Term

English Language optional modules

An indicative list of optional modules available is provided below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH A Common Language? English in the U.K. and the U.S.A. (and beyond) 09 31802 20 Semester 2
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 1
LH Business Discourse and Communication 09 31805 20 Semester 2
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1
LM Organisational and Personal Development 09 36894 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation.

Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1