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Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English Literature and History of Art Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree. Core modules: For students taking 40 credits worth of Art History modules there are no compulsory modules from Art History. Core modules: Students taking 60 or 80 credits in Art History must take the following modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip 10 24005 10 Semester 2
LI Research Techniques in History of Art 10 24008 10 Semester 2

Students taking 40 credits of Art History and 80 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: Students taking 60 credits of Art History and 60 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take the two 10 credit compulsory modules in Semester 2: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field. English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: OR Optional modules: Art History: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1. In semester 2, you will just take the two 10 credit compulsory modules: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field. English Literature: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: Students taking 80 credits of Art History and 40 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in semester 2. You will also take the two 10 credit compulsory modules in Semester 2: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field.

English Literature Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism 09 32447 20 Semester 2
LI Colonial/Postcolonial 09 39968 20 Semester 2
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 2
LI Earliest English 09 37686 20 Semester 1
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature 09 39915 20 Semester 1
LI Gothic 09 39923 20 Semester 1
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture 09 39935 20 Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 1
LI Our Digital World 09 39969 20 Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel 09 37896 20 Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance 09 39840 20 Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 39982 20 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 39983 20 Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature 09 38960 20 Semester 2

Students choose additional Level I modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from History of Art:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 1
LI Craft: Practices, Concepts, Activism 09 37038 20 Semester 2
LI History of Art Semester Abroad 10 27213 60 Semester 1 or 2
LI History of Art Year Abroad 09 28644 120 Full Term
LI History of Art Year Abroad 09 39334 120 Full Term
LI Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition 09 34891 20 Semester 1
LI Making Culture: New Ways of Reading Things 10 30802 20 Semester 2
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War 10 30805 20 Semester 1
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 2