Programme Requirements for 2020/21 Session


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B.A. English and History Full-time

Year: 2
2020/21 Session

The following must be taken

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Group Research 09 23513 20 Semester 2

Students choose from a range of Autumn options which vary from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Autumn Option: 1619 and the Making of America: A 400 Year History 09 36062 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Modern Britain from the Margins 09 36063 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Pandora’s Box: Europe and the First World War, 1900-1930 09 36064 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Radical Pieties: Militants, Martyrs and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam 09 36061 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Revolution, Nation, and the Global South 09 36057 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War 09 35003 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Towns and Urban Life in the Middle Ages 09 32136 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds. 09 34998 20 Semester 1
LI Election: The Politics and History of Choosing America's Leaders 09 34966 20 Semester 1
LI From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28016 20 Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War 10 30805 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by the Department of History or a School or Department other than History

Students wishing to take 60 credits in History also choose 20 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI History in Theory & Practice A 09 33715 10 Semester 1
LI History in Theory & Practice B 09 33720 10 Semester 2
LI Research Methods A 09 33726 10 Semester 1
LI Research Methods B 09 33727 10 Semester 2
LI Professional Skills Module 09 28559 20 Semester 1

Students who chose 80 credits in History may take two modules from those just listed above, or may take instead a Spring Option. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Global History of Gender and Sexuality: Body, Work, and Citizenship 09 36059 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: In the Eye of the Storm: Europe & the Second World War, 1930-1960 09 36060 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: State and Empire in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 09 36058 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 32146 20 Semester 2
LI The US in the World, 1890 to 1980 09 29067 20 Semester 2
Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 1

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History.

English Literature Pathway

Students taking 40 credits in English Literature must choose EITHER one module from Histories of Literature A and D OR one module from Histories of Literature B and C. Students taking 60 credits in English Literature must choose EITHER one module from Histories of Literature A and D OR one module from Histories of Literature B and C plus EITHER one module from the Themes in Literature list (parts A & B must both be taken) OR 33587 and 33588

Students taking 80 credits in English Literature must choose EITHER one module from Histories of Literature A and D OR one module from Histories of Literature B and C, plus one module from the Themes in Literature list (parts A & B must both be taken) AND modules 33587 and 33588.

LIST A:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Critical Encounters with Medieval Popular Literature 09 36224 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Poetry 09 36225 20 Semester 2

LIST B:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 2

LIST C:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 1

LIST D:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 2

English Literature Pathway. 20 credits from the Themes in Literature list or Shakespeare. The modules listed below are indicative of what may be available.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A 09 33252 10 Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B 09 33254 10 Semester 2
LI Digital Futures A 09 33258 10 Semester 1
LI Digital Futures B 09 33260 10 Semester 2
LI Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies A 09 33262 10 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies B 09 33264 10 Semester 2
LI Public and Enterprising English A 09 36231 10 Semester 1
LI Public and Enterprising English B 09 36232 10 Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture A 09 33266 10 Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture B 09 33268 10 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare's Sisters A 09 33270 10 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare's Sisters B 09 33272 10 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 33587 10 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 33588 10 Semester 2
LI The Gothic A 09 33274 10 Semester 1
LI The Gothic B 09 33277 10 Semester 2
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning A 09 33589 10 Semester 1
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning B 09 33590 10 Semester 2
LI Tragedy A 09 33279 10 Semester 1
LI Tragedy B 09 33281 10 Semester 2

English Language Pathway.

For students taking 80 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI English Grammar 09 28743 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists A 09 33889 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists B 09 33891 10 Semester 2
LI English Phonetics and Phonology 09 34881 10 Semester 2
LI Language Acquisition and Literacy 09 26651 20 Semester 1
LI Psycholinguistics 09 27523 20 Semester 1

For students taking 60 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists A 09 33889 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists B 09 33891 10 Semester 2

For students taking 40 credits in English Language, choose two optional modules.

All students should choose two English Language modules (40 credits) from the list of options available irrespective of whether they are studying 40, 60 or 80 credits in English Language.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Discourse Analysis 09 27753 20 Semester 2
LI English Phonetics and Phonology 09 34881 10 Semester 2
LI History of the English Language 09 22445 20 Semester 2
LI Sociolinguistics 09 26680 20 Semester 2