Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session

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

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

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

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Dissertation in English Literature	09 27043	40	Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation	09 28531	40	Full Term
LH Long History of Art Dissertation	10 18563	40	Full Term

Students taking 40 credits in Art History and 80 credits in English Lit

Art History: Students choose ONE Special Subject in Semester 1 and ONE in Semester 2
English Lit: students must take the English Lit Dissertation in addition to one Special Subject from either Block A or B and one Special Subject from either Block C or D

Students taking 60 credits in Art History and 60c in English

Art History: Students choose a Special Subject in Sem 1 plus the 40c HoA Long Dissertation. English Lit: students choose one Special Subject from either Block A or B, one Special Subject from Block C and a Special Subject from Block D
OR
Art History: Students choose ONE Special Subject in Semester 2 plus the HoA Long Dissertation. English Lit students choose one Special Subject from Block A, one Special Subject from Block B and one Special Subject from either Block C or D
OR
Art History: Students choose ONE Special Subject in Semester 1 and ONE Special Subject in Semester 2. You also take the Linked Dissertation (of which only 20 credits are assigned to HoA). English Lit: Students choose one Special Subject from either Block A or B and one Special Subject from either Block C or D
OR
Art History: Students choose ONE Special Subject in Semester 1 and TWO Special Subjects in Semester 2.

English: students take the credit English Lit Dissertation in addition to one Special Subject from either Block A or B
OR
Art History: Students choose TWO Special Subjects in Sem 1 and ONE in Sem 2.
English: students take the English Lit Dissertation in addition to one Special Subject from either Block C or D

Students taking 80c of Art History and 40c in English Lit

Art History: Students choose ONE Special Subject in Sem 1 and ONE Special Subject in Sem 2, plus the HoA Long Dissertation. English Lit: Students choose one Special Subject from either Block A or B and one Special Subject from either Block C or D

History of Art modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH An Unnatural History: Animals in Modern Western Art	09 30794	20	Semester 2
LH Art, Architecture and Nationhood in Sixteenth-century Venice	09 39019	20
LH Berlin 1890-1933: Symphony of a (Great?) City	10 28863	20	Semester 2
LH Contemporary Art and Home	09 30798	20	Semester 2
LH Image as Witness	09 37034	20	Semester 2
LH Inside Out: Interior and Interiority in French Art, Design and Culture 1840-1940	10 28862	20	Semester 1
LH Michelangelo	10 28861	20	Semester 2
LH Paris Moderne 1850-1930: Image, Concept, Femininity	09 28443	20	Semester 2
LH Queer Art From Britain Since 1957	09 40363	20
LH Queer Art From Britain Since 1957	09 40364	20
LH Rodin Reconsidered	09 37032	20	Semester 1
LH Sculptural Experiments in Britain, 1837-1901	10 28859	20	Semester 2
LH Sound and Vision: Word, Music, Image 1860-Now	09 34893	20	Semester 2
LH Turning the Pages: Manuscript and Print, Past and Present	10 28857	20	Semester 2
LH Women and Artistic Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period	09 28450	20	Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects English Literature Block A: Block A

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LH Islamophobia and the Novel	09 30677	20	Semester 2
LH Last Year's Novels	09 26673	20	Semester 1
LH Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985	09 30635	20	Semester 1
LH Paradise Lost: Text and context	09 21681	20	Semester 1
LH Shakespeare's Tragedies	09 26835	20	Semester 1

English Literature 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 2
LH Remembering World War One	09 26674	20	Semester 1
LH The Art of Translation	09 32243	20	Semester 1
LH The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film	09 37091	20	Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects English Literature Block C: 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 1
LH Hidden Romanticism	09 36982	20	Semester 1
LH Law and Literature	09 24813	20	Semester 2
LH Single Author: Virginia Woolf	09 37163	20	Semester 2

English Literature Special Subjects English Literature Block D: 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 Modern American Poetry	09 29542	20	Semester 2
LH Muslim Women's Popular Fiction	09 31944	20	Semester 2
LH Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century	09 28666	20	Semester 1

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 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.