Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. English and History of Art with a Year in Computer Science Full-time

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

Students taking 40 credits of Art History

No compulsory modules

Students taking 60 or 80 credits of Art History Students must take one of the following dissertation modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation (short) - History of Art	10 18557	20	Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation	09 28531	40	Full Term

Students taking 40 credits of Art History

Students choose 40 credits of Level H modules provided annually by the department.

Students taking 60 or 80 credits of Art History

Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department to a combined total of 60 or 80 credits.

Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in Art History, optional module choices may be restricted (please refer to the Art History student handbook and module choice information).

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH An Unnatural History: Animals in Modern Western Art	09 30794	20	Semester 2
LH Berlin 1890-1933: Symphony of a (Great?) City	09 39870	20	Semester 1
LH Michelangelo	09 39862	20	Semester 1
LH Paris Moderne 1850-1930: Image, Concept, Femininity	09 39856	20	Semester 1
LH Professional Skills	09 36876	20	Semester 1
LH Women and Artistic Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period	09 28450	20	Semester 2
LH ‘Islamic’ Aesthetics in Art	09 37657	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

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.
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules.

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

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Literature can study either:
(a) 40 credits of optional modules.
(b) Extended Essay in English Literature (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Extended Essay in English Literature	09 27042	20	Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation	09 27505	40	Full Term

English Literature Special Subjects

Block A

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art	09 29643	20	Semester 1
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 1
LH Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In	09 37899	20	Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation	09 32243	20	Semester 1

Block B

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Literature at Sea: 1851 to present	09 30632	20	Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 1
LH Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny	09 32236	20	Semester 1
LH Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions	09 27596	20	Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Afterlives	09 24790	20	Semester 1
LH Writing/Painting	09 37839	20	Semester 1

Block C

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin	09 27598	20	Semester 2
LH Fantasy and fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy	09 22837	20	Semester 2
LH Islamophobia and the Novel	09 30677	20	Semester 2
LH Jane Austen’s Fiction	09 39772	20	Semester 2
LH Literary Ecologies: Environmental Crisis in American Writing	09 39959	20	Semester 2
LH The Pre-Raphaelite Circle	09 27755	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

Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Chaucer: Key Works	09 38956	20	Semester 2
LH Daphne du Maurier: Horror, Romance & Obsession	09 39133	20	Semester 2
LH Making Global Literatures in Britain	09 30727	20	Semester 2
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2
LH The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400-1700	09 37352	20	Semester 2